Adobe Dreamweaver CC
Accessibility Conformance Report published by Adobe
Partial extraction. We read 25 of 31 Level A and 13 of 24 Level AA criteria from this document (69% coverage). The remainder are missing from our extraction, not necessarily from Adobe's report — their table layout defeated our parser. Treat the figures below as incomplete and read the source document for the full picture.
Conformance by level
Reported by the vendor. WCAG Level AA is the benchmark referenced by ADA Title II, Section 508 and the European Accessibility Act; Level AAA is optional and often left unevaluated.
Level A — 25 criteria
- Supports
- 16
- Partially supports
- 6
- Does not support
- 3
- Not applicable
- 0
- Not evaluated
- 0
Level AA — 13 criteria
- Supports
- 10
- Partially supports
- 2
- Does not support
- 1
- Not applicable
- 0
- Not evaluated
- 0
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All reported criteria (85)
| Criterion | Name | Level | Conformance | Remarks from vendor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1.1 | Non-text Content | A | Does Not Support | |
| 1.2.1 | Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded) | A | Supports | Software: The product does not provide prerecorded audio-only or video-only content. |
| 1.2.2 | Captions (Prerecorded) | A | Supports | Software: The product includes audio content in synchronized media and captions are provided. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can provide captioned audio in authored content, but the captions must be authored and embedded using separate software. |
| 1.2.3 | Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded) | A | Does Not Support | Software: The Quick Tutorial videos found in the Help Menu do not provide any audio description. |
| 1.3.1 | Info and Relationships | A | Partially Supports | Software: Many user interface elements provide programmatic information about structure and relationships. Exceptions include: Code view uses space and tab characters to indent tags, visually communicating parent / child relationships. Data tables displayed on the “Recents” section of the Welcome screen and the “Extract” category of the “Preferences” dialog do not provide programmatically determinable rows, columns, or column headers. The edit input fields provided as part of a data table in the Extract category of the “Preferences” dialog does not provide labels. The edit input fields and che |
| 1.3.2 | Meaningful Sequence | A | Supports | Software: The product presents content in a meaningful sequence. Authored Content (HTML): The product allows authors the ability to present content in a meaningful sequence. |
| 1.3.3 | Sensory Characteristics | A | Partially Supports | Software: Exceptions include: Referring to the “Add Media Query” button exclusively through its visual icon. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 1.4.1 | Use of Color | A | Partially Supports | Software: Exceptions include: The Code and Split view toggle buttons use color alone to communicate selected state. Toggle buttons on the left-hand navigation bar use color alone to communicate selected state. Checkbox controls on the “Preferences” dialog use color alone as the sole means of indicating focus. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 1.4.2 | Audio Control | A | Partially Supports | Software: Exceptions include: Quick Tutorial Videos, found in the Help Menu, start automatically and cannot be paused using the keyboard only. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 2.1.1 | Keyboard | A | Partially Supports | Software: Most product functionality can be operated through a keyboard interface. Exceptions include: The “None” and “Bootstrap” tab controls found in the “Create New” dialog, among other tab controls found in dialogs, cannot be controlled without a pointing device. The ‘+’ and ‘-‘ button controls which appear throughout the “Preferences” dialog cannot receive focus from or be interacted with the keyboard only. (e.g., file types, adding / removing custom window sizes, and adding / removing custom keyboard commands.) The check boxes on the Extract category cannot receive focus from the keyboar |
| 2.1.2 | No Keyboard Trap | A | Supports | Software: The product does not include keyboard traps. Authored Content (HTML): Authored content does not include keyboard traps. |
| 2.2.1 | Timing Adjustable | A | Supports | Software: The product does not include time limits. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 2.2.2 | Pause, Stop, Hide | A | Supports | Software: Moving, blinking, scrolling, and auto-updating information can be paused, stopped or hidden by the user. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 2.3.1 | Three Flashes or Below Threshold | A | Supports | Software: The product does not contain flashing content. |
| 2.4.1 | Bypass Blocks | A | Supports | Software: This criterion does not apply to non-web documents. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 2.4.2 | Page Titled | A | Supports | |
| 2.4.3 | Focus Order | A | Supports | Software: Components receive focus in a meaningful order. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 2.4.4 | Link Purpose (In Context) | A | Supports | |
| 3.1.1 | Language of Page | A | Supports | Software: The language is programmatically determinable within the product. Additional remarks: The language of the product is set based on the version installed by the user. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can set the language for content. |
| 3.2.1 | On Focus | A | Supports | |
| 3.2.2 | On Input | A | Supports | |
| 3.3.1 | Error Identification | A | Supports | |
| 3.3.2 | Labels or Instructions | A | Partially Supports | Software: Exceptions include: When a user creates a new HTML file with existing bootstrap CSS, the input field for the path has no visible label. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.1.1 | Parsing | A | Supports | |
| 4.1.2 | Name, Role, Value | A | Does Not Support | Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 1.2.4 | Captions (Live) | AA | Supports | Software: The product does not provide live media that requires captions. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 1.2.5 | Audio Description (Prerecorded) | AA | Does Not Support | Software: The Quick Tutorial videos found in the Help Menu do not provide any audio description. Authored Content (HTML): Users can include an additional audio track for audio description information that will be included as part of the media. |
| 1.4.3 | Contrast (Minimum) | AA | Partially Supports | Software: Most text meets minimum contrast requirements. Exceptions include: Sync Options Menu: Last Sync None Placeholder text in the Search bar: “To exit press Esc” Placeholder text, “Filter recent files” Sortable table column headers; “Name”, “Last Opened’, and “Kind”. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 1.4.4 | Resize text | AA | Supports | |
| 1.4.5 | Images of Text | AA | Supports | Software: The product uses text instead of images of text. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 2.4.5 | Multiple Ways | AA | Supports | Software: This criterion does not apply to non-web documents. |
| 2.4.6 | Headings and Labels | AA | Supports | Software: Headings and labels are descriptive. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 2.4.7 | Focus Visible | AA | Partially Supports | Software: The keyboard focus indicator is generally visible. Exceptions include: The focus indicator on the menu bar and submenu items are not highly visible. The Search button (magnifying glass icon) and User Profile image link. The “Create New” dialog displays multiple, adjacent selectable list boxes (e.g., Document Type, Sample Folder, Sample Page, Site, Template for Site) which do not provide any visible indication of which list box has focus. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 3.1.2 | Language of Parts | AA | Supports | Software: Content is only presented in one language at a time. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can set the language for individual phrases within content. |
| 3.2.3 | Consistent Navigation | AA | Supports | Software: This criterion does not apply to non-web documents. |
| 3.2.4 | Consistent Identification | AA | Supports | Software: This criterion does not apply to non-web documents. |
| 3.3.3 | Error Suggestion | AA | Supports | |
| 3.3.4 | Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data) | AA | Supports | Software: The product does not process legal commitments or financial transactions or modify user-controllable data. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 502.2.1 | User Control of Accessibility Features | - | Not Applicable | The product is not platform software. |
| 502.2.2 | No Disruption of Accessibility Features | - | Partially Supports | The product does not disrupt most platform accessibility features; however, the high contrast desktop theme features offered by Windows do not perform sufficiently on the product. Many of the icons used for image buttons are not visible when a Windows High Contrast theme is applied, including the buttons on the vertical left-hand navigation bar, the toolbar icons shown below the menu bar, the linked CSS and JavaScript file tabs, and the minimize, maximize, and close controls. The product does not disrupt equivalent features provided on the macOS platform, including Zoom, Invert Color, and Enha |
| 502.3.1 | Object Information | - | Does Not Support | Most core functions of the product contain functional components which lack role, state, or accessible name information. Most interactive elements on the “Work” tab of the Welcome screen are not sufficiently described. Controls do not provide programmatic roles or states, and image buttons do not provide descriptive labels. The Categories list found in the “Preferences” dialog is incorrectly described as a “tree view”, without announcing the selected value in the list. As previously stated in 1.3.1 Info and Relationships , on the Highlighting category of the “Preferences” dialog, the edit inpu |
| 502.3.2 | Modification of Object Information | - | Partially Supports | In most cases, these states and properties can be modified by assistive technology. Exceptions include the toggle buttons displayed on the left-hand navigation bar which cannot be modified by the keyboard. The check box controls displayed in the Extract Category of the “Preferences” dialog cannot be modified without a pointing device. |
| 502.3.3 | Row, Column, and Headers | - | Does Not Support | In a few cases, the product displays elements arranged visually in rows and columns which cannot be programmatically determined by assistive technologies. As previously stated in 1.3.1 Info and Relationships , the “Recents” table on the “Work” tab of the Welcome screen and the “Extract” category of the “Preferences” dialog window do not provide programmatically determinable rows, columns, or column headers. |
| 502.3.4 | Values | - | Partially Supports | The values of most input controls in the product are programmatically determinable; however, some values are not. The Categories list provided on the “Preferences” dialog does not provide the currently selected programmatically. Similar issues with these list views may be observed on the File Types category and the Linting category. |
| 502.3.5 | Modification of Values | - | Supports | When the value of an input control in the product can be modified by users in general, the value can be modified by assistive technology. |
| 502.3.6 | Label Relationships | - | Partially Supports | Most form fields in the product provide an associated programmatic label; however, as previously stated in 1.3.1 Info and Relationships , input fields and checkbox controls are not associated to the visible labels to the left of the fields. Screen reader software does not provide a meaningful or informative label for these input fields. |
| 502.3.7 | Hierarchical Relationships | - | Partially Supports | Some tree view controls, such as those used for browsing the file system and browsing the DOM in the right-hand side panels, provide sufficient text alternatives for the elements in the tree view. However, as previously stated in 1.3.1 Info and Relationships , the hierarchal relationships shown visually in the HTML on the code view do not effectively communicate the same hierarchy in a non-visual manner. |
| 502.3.8 | Text | - | Does Not Support | The text displayed in the code view of this product cannot be programmatically determined by assistive technologies. Screen reader software does not provide accurate audio feedback or does not provide any audio feedback while traversing the text. |
| 502.3.9 | Modification of Text | - | Supports | The text content of text input controls in the product can be modified by assistive technology. |
| 502.3.10 | List of Actions | - | Partially Supports | Most actionable controls provide a common role, such as “button”, which informs the user what actions are available. As previously stated in 502.3.1 Object Information , some actionable controls do not provide a programmatic role nor a list of actions. |
| 502.3.11 | Actions on Objects | - | Partially Supports | Most actionable controls can be activated by assistive technology; however, some controls either lack programmatic roles or are not exposed to assistive technologies altogether cannot be activated by alternative input methods. |
| 502.3.12 | Focus Cursor | - | Partially Supports | Some controls in the product can gain focus, but do not indicate the focus location visually. As previously stated in 2.4.7 Focus Visible , focus is not highly visible on the menu bar and submenu items. On the “Work” tab of the Welcome screen, the Search image button and user profile image icon also do not provide any visible indication of focus. The Code View does not provide a clearly visible indication of the text insertion cursor while the opening and closing HTML tags are highlighted. |
| 502.3.13 | Modification of Focus Cursor | - | Supports | When a user can focus or change selection state of a control in the product via keyboard, then the focus or selection state can also be changed programmatically. Non-standard keyboard commands are provided for moving focus between the displayed windows, including the opened documents tabs and right-hand side panels. |
| 502.3.14 | Event Notification | - | Partially Supports | In most cases, when components in the product change their programmatic states and values the changes are available to assistive technology; however, toggle button controls and options on the Welcome screen show a visible selected state that is not available to assistive technologies. Similarly, changes in available controls on a dialog are not available to assistive technology, including the list box elements on the “Create New” dialog and the “Preferences” dialog. |
| 503.4.1 | Caption Controls | - | Supports | The Quick Tutorial videos found in the Help Menu provide closed captioning controls at the same level as the volume and other playback controls. |
| 503.4.2 | Audio Description Controls | - | Not Applicable | Program Selection is not provided for the Quick Tutorial videos found in the Help Menu. |
| 504.2.1 | Preservation of Information Provided for Accessibility in Format Conversion | - | Supports | Authors can ensure the information required for accessibility is preserved to the extent the information is supported by the destination format while converting content from one format to another. |
| 504.2.2 | PDF Export | - | Not Applicable | The product does not include functionality for exporting PDF files. |
| 4.2.1 | Usage without vision | - | Does Not Support | Software: Most functions of the product are not accessible for users without vision, primarily due to insufficient element roles, descriptive labels, state information, and keyboard behaviors. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.2.2 | Usage with limited vision | - | Does Not Support | Software: For users with limited vision, some core functions of the product are not accessible. For example, Dreamweaver will consistently stop responding when ZoomText 11 users open the “Preferences” dialog from the Edit menu or when other dialog windows are encountered. This behavior could not be reproduced while using other screen magnification software solutions, including MAGic 13.1 and Windows Magnifier. As previously stated in 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) , some text elements do not provide sufficient contrast. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.2.3 | Usage without perception of colour | - | Partially Supports | Software: Most functions of the product are functional without perception of color. As previously stated in 1.4.1 Use of Color , some elements use color alone as the sole means of indicating selected state and check box controls use color alone for the visible indication of focus. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.2.4 | Usage without hearing | - | Supports | Software: The product does not require hearing for use. Pre-recorded video content provides captioning. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.2.5 | Usage with limited hearing | - | Supports | Software: The product does not require hearing for use. Pre-recorded video content provides captioning and independent volume control slider. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.2.6 | Usage without vocal capability | - | Supports | Software: Product features do not require speech input. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.2.7 | Usage with limited manipulation or strength | - | Partially Supports | Software: While the product will frequently require users to simultaneously press modifier keys to execute commands from the keyboard, platform features, such as Sticky Keys, are supported. As previously stated in 2.1.1 Keyboard , some controls cannot receive focus from or be interacted with the keyboard. As previously stated in 2.4.7 Focus Visible , some elements can receive focus, but do not provide a clearly visible indication of focus for sighted keyboard-only users. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.2.8 | Usage with limited reach | - | Supports | Software: The product is functional with limited reach. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.2.9 | Minimize photosensitive seizure | - | Supports | Software: The product does not contain flashing content. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.2.10 | Usage with limited cognition | - | Supports | Software: The product provides features for simpler, easier use by individuals with limited cognitive, language, and learning abilities. The product offers simplified views and window layouts, allowing users to hide or minimize unused windows. The product offers templates and allows users to insert “code snippets” and complex widgets into web pages. Consistent language is used throughout the application, clear titles are used on dialog windows, and error message alerts explain what caused the alert. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 4.2.11 | Privacy | - | Supports | Software: The product does not process legal commitments or financial transactions or modify user-controllable data. Authored Content (HTML): Authors can ensure that content meets this criterion. |
| 5.5.1 | Means of operation | - | Not Applicable | The product does not contain operable parts. |
| 5.5.2 | Operable parts discernibility | - | Not Applicable | The product does not contain operable parts. |
| 5.6.1 | Tactile or auditory status | - | Not Applicable | The product does not contain locking or toggle controls. |
| 5.6.2 | Visual status | - | Not Applicable | The product does not contain locking or toggle controls. |
| 7.1.1 | Captioning playback | - | Supports | As previously stated in 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded) , the Quick Tutorial videos found in the Help Menu provide captioning. |
| 7.1.2 | Captioning synchronization | - | Supports | As previously stated in 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded) , the captions provided for the Quick Tutorial videos found in the Help Menu are synchronized. |
| 7.1.3 | Preservation of captioning | - | Not Applicable | The product does not transmit, convert, or record video content. |
| 7.2.1 | Audio description playback | - | Does Not Support | As previously stated in 1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded) , the product does not provide a mechanism to select and play audio description embedded in the Quick Tutorial videos found in the Help Menu. |
| 7.2.2 | Audio description synchronization | - | Not Applicable | The product does not provide audio descriptions, the synchronization requirement is not applicable. |
| 7.2.3 | Preservation of audio description | - | Not Applicable | The product does not transmit, convert, or record video content. |
| 11.2.2 | Software success criteria (closed functionality) | - | Not Applicable | |
| 11.4.1 | User control of accessibility features | - | Not Applicable | The product is not platform software. |
| 11.4.2 | No disruption of accessibility features | - | Partially Supports | The product does not disrupt most platform accessibility features; however, the high contrast desktop theme features offered by Windows do not perform sufficiently on the product. Many of the icons used for image buttons are not visible when a Windows High Contrast theme is applied including the buttons on the vertical left-hand navigation bar, the toolbar icons shown below the menu bar, the linked CSS and JavaScript file tabs, and the minimize, maximize, and close controls. The product does not disrupt equivalent features provided on the macOS platform including Zoom, Invert Color, and Enhanc |
| 11.6.3 | Preservation of accessibility information in transformations | - | Supports | Authors can ensure the information required for accessibility is preserved to the extent the information is supported by the destination format while converting content from one format to another. |
| 11.6.4 | Repair assistance | - | Does Not Support | The product provides functionality for authors to run reports on sites to help identify missing alt attributes and untitled documents; however, this functionality is not comprehensive enough to assist authors in meeting the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. The product provides tag editor windows for authors to add attributes necessary for accessibility. When an image is inserted and the tag editor is displayed, no indication is made to inform authors that it is necessary to provide a valid alt attribute to ensure accessibility. |
| 11.6.5 | Templates | - | Partially Supports | The product provides templates to assist authors in the creation of content. Authors can ensure the WCAG 2.0 level A and AA requirements are satisfied. Templates make use of ARIA landmarks and structural heading markup. However, the templates provided by the product fall short of the WCAG 2.0 level A and AA requirements. Some templates do not set a default language for the document, do not provide valid labels for Search input edit fields, and lack explicit column headers for data tables. |
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