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Accessibility audit · WCAG 2.1 AA

Great Lakes Water Authority

www.glwater.org
46/ 100
High exposure

High exposure ahead of the April 26, 2027 WCAG 2.1 AA deadline. Multiple critical, template-level failures are live on the site today.

Deadline April 26, 2027 · 10 months outScanned June 28, 20268 pages analyzed
2
Critical issue types
3
Serious issue types
180
Total failures found
100%
of pages affected
Homepage of Great Lakes Water Authoritywww.glwater.org — as scanned
What we found

The issues, in plain language

Every item below is a real failure measured against WCAG 2.1 Level AA, ordered by severity. Most repeat across templates — which means they’re fixed once, everywhere.

CriticalWCAG 4.1.2 A8 instances · 8 pages

Buttons have no accessible name

A button with no text or label is unusable by anyone not looking at the screen.

🔒Exact locations and the fix are delivered in the full audit.

CriticalWCAG 4.1.2 A5 instances · 5 pages

Form fields have no label

A field with no programmatic label is announced only as "edit text" — users can't tell what to type, which breaks search, sign-ups, and payment forms.

🔒Exact locations and the fix are delivered in the full audit.

SeriousWCAG 1.4.3 AA84 instances · 8 pages

Text contrast is too low

Low-contrast text is hard or impossible to read for low-vision users and in sunlight — it fails the most-cited WCAG criterion.

🔒Exact locations and the fix are delivered in the full audit.

SeriousWCAG 2.4.4 AWCAG 4.1.2 A79 instances · 8 pages

Links have no discernible text

Links read as "link" with no destination — and "click here" / "read more" tell a screen-reader user nothing out of context.

🔒Exact locations and the fix are delivered in the full audit.

SeriousWCAG 4.1.2 A4 instances · 2 pages

Hidden elements are still focusable

Keyboard users land on controls that are hidden from screen readers — a confusing dead stop.

🔒Exact locations and the fix are delivered in the full audit.

What a machine can’t decide

196 checks need manual review

These are the items automated tools flag but can’t resolve — contrast over images, reading order, focus behavior. This is exactly the gap a manual + assistive-technology audit closes.

Text contrast is too low130Duplicate IDs break ARIA references64<video> elements must have captions2
Also noted

Security & hygiene headers missing

5 recommended security headers are missing — a quick signal of how actively the site is maintained. Detailed in the audit.

What happens next

Three steps. On the platform you already own.

Audit

Manual + screen-reader testing of your key templates and flows, against WCAG 2.1 AA — with a prioritized, costed remediation roadmap and a conformance summary you can file.

Fix

We remediate the issues on your existing platform. No redesign, no migration, no retraining your staff.

Maintain

Quarterly re-scans, a live compliance dashboard, and an accessibility statement that stays current — so it holds past the deadline.

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