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Adjust these settings to improve the accessibility of tools we use in the Medicaid and CHIP Business Information Solution (MACBIS).
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Unfortunately, Dovetail has several accessibility shortcomings. They acknowledge some of these in their Accessibility Statement.
One of these issues is that you can’t add alt text or captions to images, so those images aren't accessible to screen reader software. Because of this, we recommend that you include any information displayed in images in the body text of your insights and stories.
We’ve also heard from the community that Dovetail can pose challenges for cognitive accessibility. Certain inaccessible elements of its layout (including unaligned grids when looking at highlights) can be somewhat improved through manual adjustments (such as switching from grid to list view).
Avoid using these six default tag colors with low color contrast: magenta, cyan, light green, yellow, orange, and red.
Half of the default colors for tags in Dovetail don’t pass the WCAG AA minimum color contrast requirement. These include magenta, cyan, light green, yellow, orange, and red. Instead of using these default colors, we recommend setting custom colors and checking the color contrast with one of our recommended tools listed in Tips for Accessible Design
If you want Dovetail to improve its accessibility, we recommend sending them feedback. You can contact them on their public feedback site or through their contact form.
Mural has a help article that outlines its accessibility features. Some of these are Facilitator features, though, which require a Mural account (reminder: contractors can’t have CMS Mural accounts).