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Website Accessibility Audit

Help oSTEM, Inc assess how accessible their website is to users with disabilities and identify next steps towards a website that will be accessible to all.
oSTEM, Inc
Miami, FL, USA
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Posted October 26th

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Website Accessibility Audit

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What we need
  • A list of the common issues along with the prioritization of both severity and impact of the accessibility issues found
  • List of areas that do not meet the Section 508, ADA, WCAG 2.0 guidelines
  • Specific recommendations to improve product accessibility their priority level (low, medium, and high priority)
  • Estimated time needed to fix current compliance issues
Additional details

We are primarily interested in finding the areas of our website that are not longer accessible as we have migrated to a new platform. A list of the issues with priority level would be greatly helpful.

What we have in place
  • Our website has a front-end and back-end, we are currently concerned with the front-end of the website. It is entirely accessible without logging in. Everything can be navigated to via ostem.org, https://ostem.org.
    The main navigation is through the menu bars and any sub-menus on the pages.

    Our overall goal is to have 100% compliance as it is important to our organization.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,212 , allowing us to spend more resources and time on our mentorship platform as that has been a highly requested feature and allow extra funds to go towards our scholarship program for LGBTQ+ STEM people.

One of our organization's core values is accessibility and ensuring accessibility for all groups. With the recent platform migration, we are no longer meeting that core value and that is something we are determined to fix.

Project plan

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Prep: Project Goals, Timeline & Process Established
  • Volunteer Manager provides overview of current website and any past analysis, as well as goals around the level of accessibility compliance they need to achieve
  • Professional explains their accessibility evaluation process and what the audit will entail
  • Professional and Volunteer Manager outline next steps and timeline for the project
  • Volunteer Manager walks Professional through the website, and they determine whether they should audit the full site in the time provided or focus on key page templates and a sampling of content types
  • Both parties review our pro-tips for Organizations and Volunteers to ensure the project is set up for success
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Milestone 1: Website Audited
  • Professional performs both a manual and automated audit of the identified areas of the site against Section 508, WCAG 2.0, and ADA accessibility guidelines
  • Professional determines the severity and impact of any issues that are discovered
  • Professional creates a report including a high-level summary of the findings, the status of any pages included in the audit, and a detailed list of the discovered issues and their severity
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Milestone 2: Audit Reviewed
  • Volunteer Manager reviews draft of audit report and provides feedback to the Professional
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Milestone 3: Finalized Audit Report is Delivered to the Organization
  • Professional delivers final report for the Organization, which includes prioritized recommendations to remediate issues uncovered and achieve the targeted level of accessibility compliance
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oSTEM, Inc
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Janine v
Janine v.

Vice President of Marketing and Communications

Our mission

oSTEM empowers LGBTQ+ people in STEM to succeed personally, academically, and professionally by cultivating environments and communities that nurture innovation, leadership, and advocacy.

What we do

We envision a world where LGBTQ+ people in the STEM community are empowered to achieve success in a safe and supportive environment that celebrates their diversity and unique contributions.

Testimonials

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Heather was wonderful to work with. Very responsive, professional, and thorough in her accessibility audit. She walked us through the results and provided a very comprehensive and easy to understand report. I highly recommend her.
Janine v.
Janine v.

Vice President of Marketing and Communications

Website Accessibility Audit Project

Responsive, professional and easy to work with. I appreciate their commitment to accessibility and I'd happily work with them again.
Heather C.
Heather C.

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