Web Governance
Accessibility checks April 2024
Acquia Optimize has performed a round of periodic updates to our accessibility checks to improve the overall quality of accessibility scans.
An orange line with the label "Accessibility checks update" on your charts and tables in the Accessibility module indicates when your domain started scanning with the updated versions of checks.
All checks are updated automatically and Acquia Optimize users do not need to do anything in order to take advantage of the changes. However, as a consequence of the update, be aware that your accessibility compliance score may change.
In the following section, we provide details on the specific updates to the various accessibility checks as part of this release.
We have updated WCAG 2.2 from draft to published version. Any users who were scanning with the draft version of WCAG 2.2 have automatically been migrated to the final/published version.
We have added the WCAG 2.2 Mobile guideline into Acquia Optimize. This enables users to do mobile-specific scans based on the WCAG 2.2 guideline.
Check name: id attributes must be unique.
Affected guidelines: WCAG 2.2 A, AA, AAA.
Check name: The size of the target for pointer inputs is at least 44 by 44 CSS pixels.
Affected guidelines: WCAG 2.2 AAA.
Check name: Essential controls are not hidden.
Affected guidelines: All.
Check name: Publications have consistent page numbers.
Affected guidelines: All.
Check name: Keyboard focus must be visible on interface components (Minimum).
Affected guidelines: All. This was replaced by and updated version of the check.
Check name: Keyboard focus must be visible on interface components (Enhanced).
Affected guidelines: All. This was replaced by and updated version of the check.
Check name: Check 315: Scrolling in more than one direction is not necessary for small displays and zoomed content.
Affected guidelines: WCAG 2.2 Mobile. This was replaced by and updated version of the check.
Check name: Scrolling in more than one direction is not necessary for display on mobile phones.
Affected guidelines: This check was added to the WCAG 2.2 AA and AAA guidelines. It's a mobile-only check.
Check name: Ensure pinch-to-zoom is enabled.
Affected guidelines: This check was added to the WCAG 2.2 AA and AAA guidelines. It's a mobile-only check.
Check name: Authentication Form is accessible for cognitively challenged people (enhanced criteria).
Affected guidelines: All.
Check name: Interface components receiving focus are not entirely hidden.
Affected guidelines: All.
Check name: No part of interface components receiving focus is hidden.
Affected guidelines: All.
Check name: Pointer-interactive elements, such as linked icons, must be easy to target (Enhanced).
Affected guidelines: All.
Check name: Focus Appearance meets the criteria for conformance.
Affected guidelines: All.
Check name: Alt text for all img elements contains all text in the image unless the image text is decorative or appears elsewhere in the document.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 1.4.5. to 1.1.1.
Check name: All textarea elements have a label that is positioned close to control.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 1.3.1. to 3.3.2.
Check name: All input elements, type of "password", have a label that is positioned close to the control.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 1.3.1. to 3.3.2.
Check name: All input elements, type of "checkbox", have a label that is positioned close to the control.
Details: TThis check has moved from success criterion 1.3.1. to 3.3.2.
Check name: All input elements, type of "file", have a label that is positioned close to the control.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 1.3.1. to 3.3.2.
Check name: All input elements, type of "radio", have a label that is positioned close to the control.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 1.3.1. to 3.3.2.
Check name: Use the blockquote element to mark up block quotations.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 3.2.4. to 1.3.1.
Check name: All layout tables make sense when linearized.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 1.3.3. to 1.3.1.
Check name: Each label describes its associated input element.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 3.3.2. to 2.4.6.
Check name: All select elements have a label that is positioned close to the control.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 1.3.1. to 3.3.2.
Check name: All input elements, type of "text", have a label that is positioned close to the control.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 1.3.1. to 3.3.2.
Check name: The tab order specified by tabindex attributes follows a logical order.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 3.2.3. to 2.4.3.
Check name: Previously entered information is available afterwards.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion to 3.3.8. to 3.3.7.
Check name: Authentication Form is accessible for cognitively challenged people.
Details: This check has moved from success criterion 3.3.7. to 3.3.8.
Check name: Link text colour must contrast sufficiently with its background colour.
Details: This check had its type changed from Review to Error.
2.4.11 Focus Appearance (Minimum) (AA) and 2.4.12 Focus Appearance (Enhanced) (AAA) were merged to one, moved, and named 2.4.13 Focus Appearance (AAA).
2.4.11 is a new criterion: Focus Not Obscured (Minimum) (AA).
2.4.12 is a new criterion: Focus Not Obscured (Enhanced) (AAA).
2.4.12 Focus Appearance (Enhanced) (AAA) and 2.4.11 Focus Appearance (Minimum) (AA) were merged to one, moved, and named 2.4.13 Focus Appearance (AAA)
2.4.13 Fixed Reference Points (A). This criterion was removed.
2.5.5 has become Target Size (Enhanced) (AAA). It was previously Target Size (AAA).
2.5.7 has become Dragging Movements. It was previously Dragging.
2.5.8 has become Target Size (Minimum) (AA). It was previously Pointer Target Spacing (AA).
3.2.6 has become Consistent Help (A). It previously was Findable Help (A).
3.2.7 Hidden Controls (AA). This criterion was removed.
3.3.7 Accessible Authentication (A) has been split in two and moved to 3.3.8 and 3.3.9.
3.3.8 Redundant Entry (A) has been moved to 3.3.7.
3.3.8 is now Accessible Authentication (minimum) (AA). The wording has changed from old 3.3.7.
3.3.9 is new and now Accessible Authentication (enhanced) (AAA). The wording has changed from old 3.3.7 and is stricter than new 3.3.8.
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