Determining work needed from DAC Audit May 2023

[CharlotteDowns]

What

We've requested an external accessibility audit with the Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC) that is due to take place on the 9th May 2023. The audit is scheduled to take 3.5 days in total.

Why

This WCAG 2.2 audit supports our efforts to #3040.

As we approach the publishing date for WCAG 2.2, we want to ensure our existing govuk-frontend elements are meeting all WCAG 2.1 AA criteria. The only way to pass WCAG 2.2 AA is to also meet all criteria in WCAG 2.1 AA (with one exception, where a criterion is being removed).
We're doing other work to assess where updates are needed to align elements with the 9 new WCAG 2.2 criteria, but we likely don't have capacity to run an internal audit across all of the existing 78 WCAG criteria.

Who needs to work on this

@CharlotteDowns, @davidc-gds

Who needs to review this

@stevenjmesser

Done when

• Collect and type up notes from DAC visit
• Capture any updates to audit example based upon notes from visit
• Reach out to DAC to check on progress
• Received audit result from DAC
• Create new audit tags (audit may 2023) in both the Design System and Frontend repos
• Add fails as distinct issues on the Frontend repo and Design system repo, applying tag
• Add usability issues as distinct issues on the Frontend repo and Design system repo, applying tag
• Determine whether we can publish the audit paper publicly (chat with Kelly and Steve)
• Add comments to respective component/pattern GitHub issues
• Contact teams who have fails with results of audit
• (moved to a new issue) Consider and make any updates to the Design System accessibility statement
• Add bonus Design System issue to repo

Links to tagged issues

• Issues in Frontend repo
• Issues in Design System repo

[CharlotteDowns]

Some highlights from DAC visit mentioned in show and tell.

[CharlotteDowns]

Issues identified in a spreadsheet format

[CharlotteDowns]

Draft of GitHub issue comments for each backlog item

[dav-idc]

This work is now complete, and is followed by a new issue:

• Create and publish documentation for DAC Audit 2023 #3814