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Table 5 Top 15 known accessibility issues

From: Evaluating hospital websites in Kuwait to improve consumer engagement and access to health information: a cross-sectional analytical study

List of common known problems (Level AA)

Count

Element “img” missing “alt” attribute

1776

Element “i” or italic used

142

On-mouseover event handler missing on-focus event handler

103

Image used as anchor is missing valid “alt” text

80

Insufficient contrast between text color and its background

69

Script not keyboard accessible – on-mouse-out missing on-blur

61

Anchor contains no text

53

Label text is empty

47

Input element type of “text” has no/missing associated label

38

Document language not identified

33

Document has invalid language code

32

Input element type of “text” has no text in label

21

Header nesting error

19

Element selected missing an associated label

18