# RAMP accessibility issues

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ramp-accessibility-issues/164000>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** accessibility\
**Created:** [September 14, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ramp-accessibility-issues/164000 "2020-09-14T17:11:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![KKavoussanakis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kkavoussanakis/32/193630_2.png) [@KKavoussanakis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KKavoussanakis)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ramp-accessibility-issues/164000/1 "2020-09-14T17:11:38Z")

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Hello,

I am working on the [RAMP](https://epcced.github.io/ramp/) COVID-19 initiative. We chose Discourse for our [forum](https://ramp-forums.epcc.ed.ac.uk) and are very happy with it.

A colleague and I have been looking at accessibility. I believe that we have addressed low-contrast issues by means of the admin CSS functionality. But we have some issues, says [WAVE](https://wave.webaim.org), that we are not sure we can tackle ourselves, as follows:

- Linked image missing alternative text: these are to do with the avatar pictures. There is a descriptive title, but alt is empty.

- There is a missing label in every page:

- There is an empty heading in every page:

- There are numerous reported empty buttons, associated with svg.

- There are empty links, e.g.:  
`<a href="" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" class="tabLoc"></a>`  
and  
`<a href="" class="edit-topic" title="edit the title and category of this topic" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-27="27"><svg class="fa d-icon d-icon-pencil-alt svg-icon svg-string" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><use xlink:href="#pencil-alt"></svg></a>`.

- There is an empty table header: `<th data-sort-order="posters" class="posters"></th>`

I will be very surprised if we are the only ones to have these, so I am wondering if WAVE is overthinking things or if perhaps we are missing a trick or two. Any help will be most appreciated.

Many thanks in advance,  
Kostas

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