Job ID: MNSITE-1694 (90091125)
Accessibility Tester with WCAG, Captivate and Unemployment Insurance experience
Location: St Paul MN (DEED)
Duration: 8 months
Interview: Phone
Positions: 1 (1/1)
The Office of MNIT Services, partnering with the Department of Employment and Economic Development, is seeking a vendor who can evaluate and fix errors for the Minnesota Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program. The program provides information and resources for Minnesota citizens online through its website at www.uimn.org.
The site is regularly updated and new content is published. All content on uimn.org is managed centrally. The content is reviewed and approved for publishing by UI leadership. To maintain the integrity of the content and ensure consistent publishing standards one person is primarily responsible for publishing.
As accessibility standards are continuously evolving, we commissioned an analysis of nineteens screens of our website (uimn.org) according to WCAG 2.0 accessibility criteria in 2018. The study showed several opportunities to improve accessibility. The results of the study are attached as a Buyer Attachment.
The purpose of the project is to remediate the accessibility errors and implement the recommendations from the analysis, conforming to both WCAG 2.1 criteria standards and the revised 508 standards. The scope of this project includes not only the pages included in the test samples, but the whole site, including applicant and employer videos developed with Captivate. The job search e-learning videos are out of scope.
The vendor will be primarily working with the UI Program Manager and the Webmaster/Media Specialist responsible for the site. In addition, they will work with staff at MNIT to remediate MNIT–provided templates.
The site is maintained in the Tridion content management system.
Deliverables
#1 Identify occurrences of the following accessibility errors across the site:
oUnstructured PDF documents
oForm controls without an accessible name
oInadequate link phrases
oImages of text
oPinch zoom disabled
oPressed state of media player buttons
oButtons without a button role
oSection navigation
oIncorrectly structured image map
oTable used for layout
oTop navigation not optimized for screenreader
oDecorative images
oDisclosure buttons
oInsufficient color contrast
oTabbed widgets
oMeaningful icons – missing text alternatives
oInaccessible image carousel
oHeadings are not coded correctly
oInadequate page titles
oIllogical focus order
o<header> has incorrect role of ‘heading’
oWeak visual indication of focus
oLists not identified in markup
oMissing main landmark region
oParsing errors
oDuplicate links to same location
#2 Remediate each error according to WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.
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