ADA REPORTS

darrengrubel@cusd.com

Kellieferamisco@cusd.com

Monthly Emails

• Once a month you will receive a forwarded email of your websites scaned ADA complance. The area we are most concerned with is “Errors” and Most Common Errors

• Our goal is to reduce the Total Errors

• Total Alerts are next level best practice but not required for compliance

When you receive your Reports

• Take a look at your most common errors:
• Missing Alternative Text will likely be the most prevalent.
• To resolve add alternative text • Empty links

link
• Usually this occurs when you have an additional “Space” before or after the

us know. Sometimes the code needs
• If you get stuck on correcting this let

to be evaluated

• Click Download PDF Report

PDF Report

This page has the same overview information as well as your highest error/page pages. Focus on Errors

Click on one of the links will take you to the WAVE Tool

Wave Tool

• The WAVE Tool will pull your website up and give you a view
of any issues if finds

• Use the address box to refresh any updates you’ve made to your site

• The Red Boxes are Errors

• Hover over them to learn more about the error

• Orange are Alerts

• I.E. underlined text that is not a link can be miss read

Error - ALT TEXT

• In a new tab (Ctrl+T) copy and paste the address, log in to your
site as you normally would and edit your page to make corrections

• For Alternative Text

• Edit the block and click on the picture and the “T” symbol to add
text and Click Update

• For Staff Photos – “Staff Photo” counts but an actual description with
the name is better.

• Make any other edits and click save

Error - Missing link • Missing links can be tricky

• Sometimes its as simple as an extra “Space” before or after the
link

• In this case it’s a bit of code that got copied and pasted at some
point.

• If you get get stuck – Reach out to the Digital Comms team and
we’ll dig in.

Back in the Wave Tool

• Go Back to your wave tool and click the Refresh button

• You should notice the total errors drop and the individual error no longer appearing on the site.