Now scanning ... alaska.gov

Hello, this is Luke with ScanGov, and welcome back to another edition of Now Scanning. Today we're scanning alaska.gov, and we have done a sample scan of four pages. So the homepage and a couple of other pages, three other pages.

So let's go over the dashboard. Overall, these four pages have a D grade. Again, got a B for accessibility, a B for botability, B for security, F for usability, C for readability, and there are two broken links within these four pages.

So we can start with the broken links. You can see we can go over to our broken link checker and see it's on the page. This is on the resident home. This is on the homepage, and you can click to verify. So I'm going to click, and I can see that it is indeed a broken link, and this is also a broken link. So it looks like, you know, there's a broken link on the homepage, which is a little bit alarming but also not surprising because of the overall grade. It appears that Alaska is not taking its digital services as seriously as it should.

So I'm going to go over to the task list and see what's going on here. So, it looks like there are, if we just kind of look at all of the issues, looks like there's some open graph issues, and there are some accessibility issues and some performance issues. And then there's some readability. Looks like they don't have a site map. Anything related to site map. And it looks like there are a number of accessibility issues related to structured HTML and list and images, page description, and a lot of errors in the console.

So, you know, if we go to accessibility, we can see the heading elements up here and sequentially descending order. It's like every page has that. So it looks like they're sort of challenged with structured HTML. Spacing on the touch targets, so things are too close when you're on a mobile phone, so you might click the wrong link. Background foreground color, so contrast issues.

Botability. Let's see what's going on here. So looks like their site map, they're challenge with a site map. And that is a very important part of making the site accessible, especially for search engines and AI bots and just bots in general.

Security is just, there's some console issues. And usability, it looks like there's some performance and open graph issues. So mostly performance and readability. We have a grade on the readability of grade C of the readability.

And that's it. That is alaska.gov and four pages. To learn more, go to scangov.com. Thank you.