Results for Photobucket
Description
Photobucket offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. You can upload your photos, host your videos, and share them with friends and family. Content can be easily added to your e-mail, web site, blog, forum or e-Community. Photobucket also provides free tools to make a slideshow of photos, videos and music. Finally, the photobucket online store lets you print photos, and add them to shirts, hoodies, mugs, calendars, stickers, posters and so on.
Accessibility Testing Results
The usability of this web site is good. However, many links, JavaScript codes and Flash advertisements are used impacting on navigation, and there are issues with the image ALT attributes which may be missing or just a file link. Some link target definitions are poor and frames have missing titles, although the screen reader user can get round most areas it is a struggle.
| # | Test | Score | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Login, Signup and Other Forms Accessible |  |
Keyboard access is good. However, at the end of the registration a Captchas is used and the audio is difficult to understand. some forms are missing labels but most are Screen reader accessible. |
| 2 | Image ALT Attributes |  |
Images tend to take on the name of the file as they are uploaded rather than the tags provided which is a shame as the site does offer the chance to describe photos. Some web site images also have no alt tags |
| 3 | Link Target Definitions | |
The names for functional links are good but others lack definition and do not help navigation when using a screen reader. |
| 4 | Frame Titles and Layout | |
There is an iframe and at times there seem to be screen reader problems reaching content. |
| 5 | Removal of Stylesheet | |
The web site still can be used when the style sheet is removed, but all thumbnails disappear just titles left. As a photo share web site this problem can make the web site unusable. Also the layout becomes hard to navigate with many misplaced items. |
| 6 | Audio/Video Features |  |
You can easily to upload your photos, videos or audios to the website and share them - text titles, tags and descriptions can be added but the videos have to be captioned prior to uploading. |
| 7 | Video/animations - audio descriptions | |
You can easily to add the title, description and tags for photos, videos and audios. Also comments are available but you need to have made the audio descriptions in another program before uploading. |
| 8 | Appropriate use of Tables |  |
A table has been used for the layout in one section but it does not appear to impact on the screen reader user or when viewed in text layout. |
| 9 | Tab Orderings Correct and Logical | |
There are many functional links on the page, it is not always easy to use tab to reach features in a logical way. |
| 10 | Page Functionality with Keyboard | |
Keyboard functionality is bad as many functional links and Flash based advertisements on the page. It is easy to use mouse. |
| 11 | Accessibility of Text Editors | |
The text editors are easy to use as they are mainly plain text forms. |
| 12 | Appropriate Feedback with Forms | |
Good feedback from the use of forms, however, javascript is used and some screen reader users may turn this off which would hamper feedback. |
| 13 | Contrast and Colour Check | |
Site contrast is generally good and responds well to desktop setting changes or browser setting options. |
| 14 | Page Integrity when Zooming | |
Because the website layout depends so much on javascript and CSS, when the pages are zoomed the layout appears to eventually breakdown. |
| 15 | Text size, style, blinking elements and Readability | |
Some serif text. Majority of text is size 10pt. |
Disability-Tailored Results
The following table shows how well the product performs for people with disabilities, as listed in the Disabilities section.
Percentages do not indicate how much of a site is accessible. They indicate the average figure of test results relevant to each disability. Select a disability to see which tests are relevant to it.
| Disability | Average Score |
|---|---|
| Colour Deficiencies | 78% |
| Visual Stress | 78% |
| Deaf/Hard of Hearing | 67% |
| Specific Learning Differences (including Dyslexia) | 60% |
| Partially Sighted and Visual Acuity | 58% |
| Cognitive Learning Disabilities | 56% |
| Dexterity/Mobility | 50% |
| Blind and Severe Visual Impairments | 47% |
