Summary results - Party of European Socialists

There is a video playing in the background continuously, without any chance for the user to pause, which may be highly difficult to cope with for any user, especially for people with visual or cognitive impairments.

Many visual elements lack alternative text, which makes navigating difficult for visually impaired users. Social media links are actively removed in the code which hides them from users of assistive technology, excluding them from navigating to the social media channels from the website.

On mobile, the menu opens, but the menu items are not reachable for assistive technology. Furthermore, the “hamburger” menu icon changes name on each page, which makes it impossible to interact with for users of assistive technology.

The mobile interface also contains a Floating Action Button with headphones that starts reading random parts of the page. It’s difficult to understand what this feature is intended to do or who the intended target audience would be.

Insufficient contrast makes it difficult for users with low vision to use the website, as they may miss important content. The use of the red colour may be problematic for users with visual impairments.

Hard of hearing users are supported by auto captioned video, which is positive.

The documents are not accessible.

Example

Figure 2: Three screen captures from an iPhone; the first shows that assistive technology announces the “hamburger” menu icon on the start page as “slash, link”. The second shows that assistive technology announces the “hamburger” menu icon on the “What we fight for”-page as “policies, link”. The third shows that assistive technology announces the “close menu” icon on the start page as “slash, link”.

 

In mobile, the “hamburger” menu is missing a name, and is announced as “slash, link” on the start page. Interestingly it changes name on all pages. So, when the user is on “What we fight for”, the menu is now announced as “policy, link”. The close button for the menu is also announced as “slash, link” or “policy, link”, etc. This makes the mobile menu highly inaccessible for users of assistive technology.