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What Google’s accessibility check found

Lighthouse checks a set of accessibility rules that can be tested by machine: colour contrast, missing labels, alt text, focus order. Clearing them is worth doing and is not the same as being accessible — roughly a third of the barriers people actually hit can only be found by a person using the site.

Accessibility Medium at worst 1 finding covered

Medium

Lighthouse accessibility checks that failed

What SEOPert detected

Google’s Lighthouse accessibility audit reported failing checks on your homepage.

What this means

Google’s Lighthouse accessibility checks found issues that make your site harder to use for some visitors.

How to fix it

  1. Run your homepage through PageSpeed Insights, open the Accessibility section, and fix the listed items (contrast, labels, alt text).

If you are handing this to a developer

Resolve the failing Lighthouse accessibility audits, then test with a keyboard and a screen reader.

Check it worked. Re-test the homepage at pagespeed.web.dev and open the Accessibility section: the listed items should pass.

Rank accessibility failures by severity A 30-second exercise. One line is the problem — see whether you would catch it.

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