Core City Studios Prepared for reviewGreat Lakes Water Authority
www.glwater.org ↗
www.glwater.org — as scannedThe 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Security & hygiene headers missing
5 recommended security headers are missing — a quick signal of how actively the site is maintained. Detailed in the audit.
Three steps. On the platform you already own.
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.
We remediate the issues on your existing platform. No redesign, no migration, no retraining your staff.
Quarterly re-scans, a live compliance dashboard, and an accessibility statement that stays current — so it holds past the deadline.