I reviewed the CougarNet login page, and found the following results:

  • What accessibility issues crop up for the page you chose?
    • There were a bunch of different problems that popped up, among them broken skip links, redundancy in text to speech, and low contrast errors.
  • Who is most likely to need the content on the page?
    • All SIUE students and faculty will use this page.
  • How might the accessibility issues impede people’s access to the content? Who might be most impacted?
    • This is something that could impede many students who require text to speech software in order to navigage the page. Behind all of the errors and reduncancies, the student needs to be able to find the login page, and access everything related to their academic career: grades, registration, student bills, financial aid, etcetera.
  • Name one or two ways that the accessibility of the site could be improved – the smaller and easier, the better!
    • There were a lot of low contrast errors, which could be solved by making images, logos or text higher contrast. This is something that shouldn’t be too difficult for the purposes of this page, as most images are fairly simple, anyways. In addition, there are suspicious alternative texts attributed to images and links that should be updated accurately.