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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
html

Research direction

Start by reproducing the unchecked issues on the index, Love Letters, and Poems Collection pages, including the Firefox filter behavior and the broken search and Full View links. Review the page markup and any associated behavior for the affected navigation, links, and controls. Done means the listed accessibility and functionality problems are resolved and verified in Firefox.

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Description

bug

Accessibility

  • The Dunbar image in the upper right corner of all pages is missing alt text or needs to be marked decorative.
  • The orange links do not meet accessibility color contrast ratio: Example: index page in the Love Letters? and Every Verse, sections. The orange links appear throughout the site and on the top navigation bar that is present on the poem and letter archive pages.
  • The text on the "carousel like" section of each of the images on the index page is not accessible
  • All of the love letter images are missing alt text.
  • For the love letters that only include the image of the letter, there is no text version which makes the page inaccessible for someone using a screen reader. The page would have no content that was accessible and therefore be blank.
    Example: http://dla-public.rerum.io/collection/record/618d9b9a50c86821e60b2cef
  • The Full View Link (Gray) at the bottom of each poem does not meet contrast ratio requirements. It also goes to a blank page on each entry.

General

  • The filter on Love Letters and the Poems Collection doesn't work in Firefox.
  • The search bar doesn't work on the index
  • Collection (redundant) and Record links in the top navigation bar are dead.
Dominant language
HTML
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Getting set up

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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