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Website Accessibility Audit

Help Washington Improv Theater assess how accessible their website is to users with disabilities and identify next steps towards a website that will be accessible to all.
Washington Improv Theater
Washington, DC, USA
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Posted January 21st

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Website Accessibility Audit

Project details

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 have a contractor secured to do web enhancements for us and we would like to have a thorough accessibility review.

What we have in place
  • We have two staff members available to consult. In addition to our external relations director who will lead the project, our education director also has substantial IT experience.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,212 , allowing us to dedicate more resources to maintaining our staff during this pandemic.

We seek to open up our performances to wider audiences both during and after the pandemic.

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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Our mission

Washington Improv Theater's mission is to unleash the creative power of improv in Washington, DC. We engage audiences with performances that exhilarate and inspire. We ignite the spirit of play in Washington with a revolutionary training program. We create a home for improv, connected to the life of the city.

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Partha was great! He was able to complete the project in a very timely manner and was very easy to work with.
Dan M.
Dan M.

External Relations Director

Website Accessibility Audit Project

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