VPAT - Online Screen Recorder Accessibility Conformance Report

WCAG Edition

(Based on VPAT® Version 2.5)

Name of Product:

ScreenPal: Online Screen Recorder (https://screen-recorder.com/)

Report Date:

August 13th, 2024

Product Description:

ScreenPal online screen recorder tool allows anyone to quickly and easily record their screen, camera, and microphone in a simple web page.

Contact information:

Evaluation Methods Used:

Accessibility testing as per WCAG 2.2 AA guidelines.

The evaluation was performed using the below tools/ tests:

  • Screen readers:
    • NVDA on Win11/ Chrome
  • WAVE automated tool
  • Color contrast testing using Color Contrast Analyzer
  • Browser zoom
  • Keyboard-only
  • Text-spacing testing using bookmarklets

Applicable Standards/Guidelines

This report covers the degree of conformance for the following accessibility standards/guidelines:

Standard/Guideline

Included in Report

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 at https:w3.org/TR/WCAG22/

Level AAA (No) Level AA (Yes) Level A (Yes)

Terms

The terms used in the Conformance Level information are defined as follows:

  • Supports: The functionality of the product has at least one method that meets the criterion without known defects or meets with equivalent facilitation.
  • Partially Supports: Some functionality of the product does not meet the criterion.
  • Does Not Support: The majority of product functionality does not meet the criterion.
  • Supports: The criterion is not relevant to the product.
  • Not Evaluated: The product has not been evaluated against the criterion.

Table 1: Success Criteria, Level A

Criteria

Conformance Level

Remarks and Explanations

Partially Supports

Images on the website mostly contain relevant alternative text.

Exceptions include:

  • An insufficient alternative text is announced for the 'Free online screen recorder' logo on the Home page.
  • Multiple decorative icons next to the text such as 'Free and easy to use' holds alternative texts on the Home page.

Supports

No audio-only or video-only content is present on the website.

Supports

No multimedia content is present on the website.

Supports

No multimedia content is present on the website.

Partially Supports

The website mostly has consistent headers and global table structures to establish clear information and relationships within the website. Screen readers properly identify most of the information available on the website. Visually impaired users are easily able to perceive the relationship between a particular element and its role. 

Exceptions include:

  • No banner, main, and content info landmarks are present on the Home page.
  • The grouping is missing for the radio buttons present on the draw functionality of the video recorder.
  • The screen reader unnecessarily announces the close button as a table on the Home page.

Partially Supports

The sequence of the content present on the website is mostly meaningful and appropriate and does not affect the meaning of the provided content.

Exceptions include:

  • The screen reader announces the headings such as 'Record screen' in parts using the arrow keys on the Home page.

Supports

No information is present on the website which is based on sensory characteristics such as shape, size, location, sound, etc.

1.4.1 Use of Color (Level A)

Partially Supports

Color, in most of the cases, is not used as the only visual means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element.

Exceptions include:

There is no textual information available for identifying drawing colors, which rely solely on color for differentiation on the video recorder.

1.4.2 Audio Control (Level A)

Supports

No audio content is present on the website that plays automatically for more than 3 seconds.

2.1.1 Keyboard (Level A)

Supports

The website mostly supports standard keyboard navigation and input functions.

However, the free-hand drawing functionality in the video recorder is an exception for the keyboard users.

Supports

Keyboard focus is moving sequentially throughout the website without the focus getting trapped in any section and it is convenient to access the functionality.

2.1.4 Character Key Shortcuts (Level A 2.1 and 2.2)

Supports

No functionalities are dependent on or controlled by character key shortcuts.

Supports

There is no such activity present on the website where time needs to be adjusted or extended.

Supports

There is no such content present on the website that needs to be stopped, paused, or hidden.

Supports

There is no flashing content present on the website.

2.4.1 Bypass Blocks (Level A)

Supports

There is no repetitive content on the website that needs to be skipped.

2.4.2 Page Titled (Level A)

Partially Supports

Descriptive and correct page titles are mostly present for pages throughout the website.

Exceptions include:

  • The screen reader announces an insufficient page title as 'Online Screen Recorder' for the Home page.

2.4.3 Focus Order (Level A)

Partially Supports

The focus mostly moves in a correct sequence order on the website from left to right and top to bottom.

Exceptions include:

  • The focus doesn't directly move to the 'Reset' button after selecting the 'Zoom in/Zoom out' button on the video recorder.
  • The Hoverable 'Volume' slider is not visible on the keyboard focus on the video recorder.
  • The focus doesn't directly move to cookies overlay on the Home page.
  • All the 'Draw color' radio buttons receive tab focus on the video recorder.

Partially Supports

Most of the links are provided with appropriate link text and the user would be able to understand the purpose of the link from its link text.

Exceptions include:

  • The links 'Terms of Service' and 'Privacy Policy' are not distinguishable from the surrounding text on the Home page.

2.5.1 Pointer Gestures (Level A 2.1 and 2.2)

Supports

All functionalities present in the website can be operated with a single pointer without a path-based gesture unless a multi-point or path-based gesture is essential.

2.5.2 Pointer Cancellation (Level A 2.1 and 2.2)

Supports

No down-event of the pointer is used in the website to execute any part of the action.

2.5.3 Label in Name (Level A 2.1 and 2.2)

Supports

All labels on the website include text and the same text is defined in the code as well to assist speech recognition technologies.

2.5.4 Motion Actuation (Level A 2.1 and 2.2)

Supports

No functionality is present on the website that is operable only by device motion.

Supports

The language attribute is correctly defined for the webpages.

3.2.1 On Focus (Level A)

Supports

No interactive element is triggered automatically on receiving the focus.

3.2.2 On Input (Level A)

Supports

Change of context does not happen when the user changes the setting of any input controls.

3.2.6 Consistent Help (Level A 2.2 only)

Supports

Sufficient help mechanism is provided in consistent place on multiple webpages.

Supports

This success criterion is not applicable.

Supports

The website provides support for motor-impaired and cognitive users as the labels and instructions are provided for the form fields, which are clearly visible and readable to such users.

3.3.7 Redundant Entry (Level A 2.2 only)

Supports

Users are not required to enter same details in the same process multiple times.

Partially Supports

Most of the website elements have a proper label associated with their role and the screen reader recognizes them correctly with updated values as well.

Exceptions include:

  • The FAQ buttons such as 'What's included in the free online screen recorder?' are announced with an incorrect role as 'link' on the Home page.
  • An incorrect role as 'link' and no label is announced for the 'X close' button on the Home page.
  • No label is announced for the buttons like 'Record', 'Draw', etc on the video recorder.
  • An incorrect role as 'button' and no label is announced for the 'Draw' radio buttons on the video recorder.



Table 2: Success Criteria, Level AA

Criteria

Conformance Level

Remarks and Explanations

1.2.4 Captions (Live) (Level AA)

Supports

No live multimedia content is present on the website.

Supports

No multimedia content is present on the website.

1.3.4 Orientation (Level AA 2.1 and 2.2)

Supports

This success criterion is not applicable.

1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose (Level AA 2.1 and 2.2)

Supports

This success criterion is not applicable.

Partially Supports

The website mostly adheres to minimum contrast standards.

Exceptions include:

  • The text such as 'Capture your browser tab' fails the color contrast ratio on the Home page.
  • The text 'Get ScreenPal Screen Recorder' fails the color contrast ratio on the Home page.
  • The text 'Mute' fails the color contrast ratio on the video recorder.
  • The text such as 'Camera' fails the color contrast ratio on the video recorder.

1.4.4 Resize text (Level AA)

Partially Supports

The website is partially responsive. At a zoom of 200%, no loss of content or functionality is observed.

Exceptions include:

  • The video recorder elements such as 'Cancel' misalign when zooming the browser up to 200%.

1.4.5 Images of Text (Level AA)

Supports

No information is conveyed to the user via an image of the text.

1.4.10 Reflow (Level AA 2.1 and 2.2)

Partially Supports

The website mostly does not require scrolling in two dimensions to present content without loss of information in 400% zoom.

Exceptions include:

  • The elements like 'Cancel' misalign on the video recorder when the browser is set to 400% (1280 X 1024) or by changing the viewport 320px to width and 256px to height.

1.4.11 Non-text Contrast (Level AA 2.1 and 2.2)

Partially Supports

The website user interface components mostly have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1 against adjacent color(s).

Exceptions include:

  • The focus outline of all the interactive elements fails the color contrast ratio on the Home page.
  • The 'Star rating' icons fails the color contrast ratio on the Home page.
  • The focus outline of the 'Reset' button fails the color contrast ratio on the video recorder.
  • The 'Play/Pause' icon fails the color contrast ratio due to an irregular background on the video recorder.

1.4.12 Text Spacing (Level AA 2.1 and 2.2)

Partially Supports

The website is mostly compliant with WCAG text spacing requirements.

Exceptions include:

  • The video recorder elements such as 'Search' button misalign when the text spacing properties are applied.

1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus (Level AA 2.1 and 2.2)

Supports

There is no content on the website that is triggered by hover or focus is dismissible, hoverable, and persistent.

2.4.5 Multiple Ways (Level AA)

Supports

No proper navigation header is required to access the different types of website pages.

Supports

Headings and labels on the website provide sufficient detail of the content they are describing.

2.4.7 Focus Visible (Level AA)

Supports

All the elements present in the website have focus visibility.

Partially Supports

Most of the elements that receive keyboard focus are at least partially visible upon receiving the focus.

Exceptions include:

  • The focus gets fully obscured behind the cookies overlay on the Home page.
  • The focus gets fully obscured behind the video recorder.

2.5.7 Dragging Movements (Level AA 2.2 only)

Partially Supports

Most of the actions that involve dragging, are provided with a simple pointer alternative.

Exceptions include:

  • The 'Zoom in/Zoom out' functionality on the video recorder only relies on the dragging functionality

2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) (Level AA 2.2 only)

Supports

All the interactive pointer targets are at least 24 by 24 CSS pixels or have sufficient spacing around them.

Supports

English is the primary and only language of the website. There are no phrases or sentences written in any other language, which need to be defined separately.

Supports

Navigational mechanisms are repeated on the website and occur in the same relative order each time they are repeated. Hence, consistent navigation is provided to the user.

Supports

Components that provide the same functionality throughout the website can be easily identified by the user.

Supports

This success criterion is not applicable.

Supports

This success criterion is not applicable.

Supports

This success criterion is not applicable.

4.1.3 Status Messages (Level AA 2.1 and 2.2)

Partially Supports

The updated content automatically notifies the visually impaired users via a screen reader in most of the cases.

Exceptions include:

  • The screen reader remains silent when the countdown notification '1, 2..' appears after selecting the 'record' button on the video recorder.
  • The screen reader remains silent when the celebration effect appears after selecting the 'Celebrate' button on the video recorder.
  • The screen reader remains silent when the loading icon appears on the video recorder.