{"id":19046166,"date":"2026-10-15T15:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wave-accessibility-tool-red-flag-errors\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:58:44","slug":"wave-accessibility-tool-red-flag-errors","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wave-accessibility-tool-red-flag-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"WAVE accessibility tool red flag Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using WAVE (web accessibility evaluation tool): <a href=\"https:\/\/wave.webaim.org\/report#\/wktvjournal.org\">https:\/\/wave.webaim.org\/report#\/wktvjournal.org<\/a> for this site flagged all 16 instances of the Jetpack &gt; Settings &gt; Sharing &gt; Sharing buttons &gt; &#8220;Add sharing buttons to your posts and pages&#8221; [ON]. Thus, we had to turn it off this week in case the site was targeted for compliance. This is a new flag as of last month&#8230; the site was rating at 9.2 (out of 10) prior to the turn of this month. When Sharing in Jetpack was toggled ON, it rated at 6.2.<br><br>Thoughts as to why this change has occurred? WAVE support suggested that &#8220;&lt;svg&gt;s should have an alt text \/ accessible name available in their internal settings&#8221;, and that I should submit a bug report. Please advise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19046166","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-a11y","topic-tag-sharing-buttons"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19046166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19046166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19046166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}