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Explorance Blue Accessibility and Usability Information

Explorance Blue is a course evaluation survey platform that allows instructors to collect, analyze, and report on student feedback. This document summarizes the accessibility and usability barriers identified during testing as well as how to get help.

Date evaluated: 1/30/26

Overview

This document contains the findings of an accessibility evaluation performed by the Center for User Experience (UX). We evaluate digital content using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1, Levels A and AA as our technical standard using both manual and automated testing methods. 

Our manual testing methods include checking for keyboard and screen reader support, reflow at high levels of magnification, accessible video and audio content, and sufficient color contrast. We may also identify usability barriers.

This evaluation is not comprehensive and should not be used as a replacement for internal quality assurance of a product. We find patterns of accessibility barriers and show examples of the types of barriers we find.

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Test conditions

  • Device: Dell Latitude 5550

  • Operating system: Windows 11 Education

  • Browser: Google Chrome

  • Screen reader: NVDA and JAWS

Elements we reviewed

  • Student-facing survey

  • Instructor dashboard

  • Instructor semester summary reports

Accessibility and usability barriers 

The following information is provided to help people with disabilities know what potential barriers may exist.

Student-facing survey

The evaluation did not identify any accessibility barriers in the student-facing surveys. 

Instructor dashboard contains some barriers to screen reader navigation

The lack of headings, status updates, and labels programmatically associated with fields and data makes navigating the dashboard and discovering information difficult for screen reader users. 

Instructors must use web-based semester summary reports for full screen reader accessibility

The PDF versions of the semester summary reports contain some barriers to screen reader accessibility. The PDFs are untagged when initially downloaded. After running the auto-tagger, tables still lack heading rows and some bar graph elements would either require alt text or must be marked as decorative. 

For full screen reader support, the user must access the web-based reports by selecting the report title link instead of downloading the PDFs.


Keywords:
explorance blue, explorance, blue, survey, course, course evaluation, accessibility, screen reader, keyboard 
Doc ID:
158237
Owned by:
Leah B. in IT Accessibility and Usability
Created:
2026-01-30
Updated:
2026-02-24
Sites:
DoIT Help Desk, IT Accessibility and Usability, Learn@UW