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. 2020 Dec 10;64:101467. doi: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101467

Table 2.

Accessibility guidelines violated by the evaluated websites.

WCAG Reference
Number of violations
Rule ID Rule Health_1 Health_2 COVID_1 COVID_2
1.1.1 All non-text content must have a text alternative, such as alt text (Level A) 1 1 2 10
1.3.1 Any visual effect used to indicate meaning (e.g. indentation) must have metadata to convey that meaning to accessibility tools (Level A) 2 2 1 1
1.4.3 Meaningful text must have a sufficiently high contrastwith the background (Level AA) 11 12 6 3
2.1.1 The website must be navigable using only a keyboard (Level A) 0 0 1 1
2.4.1 It must be possible to bypass blocks of repeated text (Level A) 1 1 1 1
2.4.2 Every page must have a descriptive title (Level A) 1 1 1 1
2.4.4 A link's text must describe what it links to (Level AA) 137 138 10 11
2.4.6 Headings and labels must be descriptive (Level AA) 2 2 1 1
3.3.2 Any field that accepts user input must have a label to describe its purpose (Level A) 1 1 1 1