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Results for myExperiment

Description

myExperiment is a collaborative environment where scientists can safely publish their workflows and experiment plans, share them with groups and find those of others. Workflows, other digital objects and bundles (called Packs) can now be swapped, sorted and searched like photos and videos on the Web. Unlike Facebook or MySpace, myExperiment fully understands the needs of the researcher and makes it really easy for the next generation of scientists to contribute to a pool of scientific methods, build communities and form relationships - reducing time-to-experiment, sharing expertise and avoiding reinvention. myExperiment is now the largest public repository of scientific workflows and is Linked Data compliant.

Accessibility Testing Results

The majority of this service is accessible and there may be no need to use all the menus in the rich text editor for adding plain text. The main problem appears to be the inability to add suitable alt tags as the file names for pictures in not helpful. Some of the navigation is confusing and the site appears cluttered.

#	Test	Score	Summary
1	Login, Signup and Other Forms Accessible		No problems logging in with a screen reader or just keyboard access.
2	Image ALT Attributes		All images from myExperiment itself have alt tags. It appears some user-generated images (e.g. workflows) have alt tags but these are generated from the file name.
3	Link Target Definitions		All links make sense, though some are duplicated.
4	Frame Titles and Layout		No frames found anywhere.
5	Removal of Stylesheet		The service is unusable without stylesheet - excessive amounts of text and links displayed (much of which is presumably hidden by the CSS), and no 'skip to next content' links are provided to bypass this.
6	Audio/Video Features		No audio or video features found.
7	Video/animations - audio descriptions		No video or animation features found.
8	Appropriate use of Tables		Some tables do not have headings, this does not appear to impact on navigation with NVDA screen reader.
9	Tab Orderings Correct and Logical		Tag order is logical, but there is no 'skip to content' link which mean navigation by tabbing can be time consuming.
10	Page Functionality with Keyboard		The site is fully navigable with keyboard, with the exception of the rich text editor.
11	Accessibility of Text Editors		Rich text editor buttons inaccessible via keyboard tabbing in some browsers. Not possible to tab out of text box when using Chrome.
12	Appropriate Feedback with Forms		Forms seem to give appropriate feedback. No time restrictions discovered.
13	Contrast and Colour Check		Performs well under the Juicy Toolbar contrast test.
14	Page Integrity when Zooming		No problems with the zoom features in any major browser.
15	Text size, style, blinking elements and Readability		Mainly sans-serif fonts. Some text too small, such as in tag clouds.

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.

Activities you can do with myExperiment

• Collections of specific items
• Comments and Sharing Views
• Group Discussion
• Text-based Editable Information