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Low-quality Alternative Text

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Warning WCAG Levels: A

To fix this warning, you will need to rewrite the alternative text for any images that flagged the Low-Quality Alternative Text warning, ensuring the alternative text is accurate, unique, contextually appropriate, and does not contain redundant or unnecessary descriptors.

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Duplicate Alternative Text

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Warning WCAG Levels: A

To resolve this warning, you will need to change the text of either one or both elements that flagged the Duplicate Alternative Text warning, ensuring that all images have unique alt text and that you are not repeating your alt text in your image titles and captions.

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Tab Order Modified

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Warning WCAG Levels: A

This warning shows up in Accessibility Checker when the logical tab order on the page has been changed, which can cause navigation issues for keyboard-only users.

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Link to Non-HTML File

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Warning WCAG Levels: AA, AAA, A

To resolve a Link to a Non-HTML File Warning, you need to ensure a direct link to view or download the document is present, warn users it is a link to a document by displaying the specific file extension in the link anchor, and est and remediate your file for accessibility errors.

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Link to PDF

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Warning WCAG Levels: AA, AAA, A

To resolve a Link to PDF Warning, you need to Make sure that any PDF documents can be accessed natively. If you're using a WordPress plugin that allows you to embed PDFs on your website, you need to ensure a direct link to view or download the document is present, warn users it is a link to a document by displaying the specific file extension in the link anchor, and test and remediate your PDF for accessibility errors.

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Link to MS Office File

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Warning WCAG Levels: AA, AAA, A

To resolve a Link to MS Office File Warning, you need to ensure a direct link to view or download the document is present, warn users it is a link to a document by displaying the specific file extension in the link anchor, and est and remediate your MS Office file for accessibility errors.

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Possible Heading

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Warning WCAG Levels: AA, A

To fix a Possible Heading warning, you will need to determine if the flagged text is indeed intended to be a heading. If so, you need to change it from a paragraph to a heading at the proper level. If it is not supposed to be a heading then you can safely "Ignore" the warning.

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Missing Subheadings

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Warning WCAG Levels: AA, A

To fix a page with no headings, you will need to add heading elements. At a minimum, every page should have one H1 tag. Add additional subheadings as appropriate for your content. If you have determined that headings are definitely not needed on the page, then you can "Ignore" the warning in Accessibility Checker.

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Image Long Alternative Text

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Warning WCAG Levels: A

To fix this warning, you need to shorten your alt text for any images that have been flagged with an Image Long Alternative Text warning. Your alternative text should be 100 characters or less.

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Blinking or Scrolling Content

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Error WCAG Levels: AAA, A

Blinking is often attached to content elements using an HTML element or CSS styles in your stylesheet. A scrolling effect is typically created using the "marquee" HTML element. You can fix the error by removing these elements from your post or page content or your CSS styles.

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Empty or Missing Table Header

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Error WCAG Levels: A

To fix an empty table header, you need to find the correct HTML element and add text to it that describes the row or column that it applies to. To fix a missing table header, you need to find the section of code that has fewer table heading elements in it than should be present for the number of rows or columns of data, and add one or more additional elements containing text that describes the data in that row or column.

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Broken Skip or Anchor Link

Category: Tool Tips Notice Type: Error WCAG Levels: A

To fix a broken skip link, you will need to take a look at the intended target of the link. You must ensure that the link does exist, and is not hidden using a CSS element. It may also be possible that a skip link is flagging as broken because of a typo in the link, so be sure to check for any spelling errors in the link URL.

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