Accessibility

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Accessibility is a practice, not a project.

It’s never done, and can always be improved.

Whenever we identify, or are told about, an issue with this website, or any other we operate, we try to fix it as soon as we can.

If you have any problems using this site for any reason you can email us at CustomerResearch@scotent.co.uk and we’ll look into it.

Known issues

  • Headings are not properly sequenced on the home and author pages
    • Fixed on: 25 January 2024
    • See below for details
  • Post dates link to posts from the homepage
    • Fixed on: 21 February 2024
    • See below for details

What we’ve done

Headings are not properly sequenced on the home and author pages

  • When an author publishes a post, the title becomes the <h1> then other headings are marked up as <h2>, <h3> and so on.
  • But when an excerpt from the post is used on the front page, our CMS converts the <h1> to <h3>. which makes sense and maintains a proper heirarchical structure.
  • But, other headings included in the excerpt were not being ‘downsized’ in the same way.
  • Which meant we had a headings structure like:
    • h1
      • h2
        • h3
        • h3
          • h2
        • h3
          • h2
          • h2
        • h3

Which is not ideal.

  • Solution:
    • A script was deployed to remediate the headings structure
      • Headings order is now appropriate to the context
    • The script works on the home, authors, and category pages
    • Fixed on: 25 January 2024

Post dates link to posts from the homepage

  • Dates in the post metadata on the excerpt from the homepage formed a link to the post
    • This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense out of (or even in) context
      • A link with the anchor text “15 January 2024” does not provide any meaningful link scent for a post entitled “Card sorting to improve information architecture “
      • There were a total of 3 links to each post from:
        • The date
        • The post title
        • The “Continue reading” link
          • This was … excessive redundancy
  • Solution:
    • We’ve amended
      • Post dates are no longer links to individual articles
    • Thanks to @mikemccaffrey@a11y.social for the heads-up
    • Fixed on: 21 February 2024