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City of Port Townsend

cityofpt.us · homepage scanned Oct 15, 2026 · WCAG 2.2 A/AA automated check

D

Accessibility score

69/100 · At risk

The homepage has several serious barriers. Visitors with disabilities are likely to be blocked from at least one task, and the pattern usually repeats across the whole site.

1

Critical

2

Major

0

Minor

Screenshot of the City of Port Townsend homepage at scan time

Homepage as loaded by our crawler on Oct 15, 2026.

In plain English

What this means for visitors

The scan found issues that may cause problems for visitors with disabilities, such as screen reader users who rely on ARIA widgets to navigate. To improve accessibility, fix the critical issue first, which is likely causing the most significant problems. Automated scans like this one catch many issues, but not all, so further review is needed to ensure the site is usable for everyone, as required by ADA Title II.

Findings

3 issue types found on the homepage

Each item is one failing rule; the count shows how many elements on the page trigger it. Severity follows axe-core impact levels.

#1CriticalWCAG 1.3.11 elementRule details ↗

ARIA widget is missing required parts

A menu/tab/list widget is incomplete, so assistive technology can't operate it.

Who it affects

Blocks a task outright for some visitors (for example an image-only flyer with no text, or a form field with no label).

First fix

Fix the widget markup or update the plugin that generates it.

#2MajorWCAG 1.3.14 elementsRule details ↗

List items are outside a list

Items are marked as list entries but not inside a list.

Who it affects

Makes a task significantly harder (low contrast, links with no name, missing frame titles).

First fix

Wrap <li> elements in a <ul> or <ol>.

#3MajorWCAG 4.1.21 elementRule details ↗

Embedded frames have no title

Embedded maps, calendars and videos are announced as 'frame' with no description.

Who it affects

Makes a task significantly harder (low contrast, links with no name, missing frame titles).

First fix

Add a title attribute to each <iframe> (for example title="Google Map of the district office").

Severity guide

How to read the counts

Critical

Blocks a task outright for some visitors (for example an image-only flyer with no text, or a form field with no label).

Major

Makes a task significantly harder (low contrast, links with no name, missing frame titles).

Minor

Reduces clarity or consistency (heading order, landmarks, touch-target size).

What this grade does and does not cover

  • Covers: the public homepage only, loaded once in a desktop browser, tested with axe-core against WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA rules (a superset of the WCAG 2.1 AA standard in the DOJ rule).
  • Does not cover: inner pages, PDFs and documents, logged-in portals, video captions, alt-text quality, keyboard usability of custom widgets, or anything that needs a human judgment.
  • A grade is a monitoring signal, not a legal assessment or certification. How we score.