[gnicholas]

Not holding my breath on this. The new White House website has been lauded by accessibility professionals for having accessibility features — but when I took a look I immediately saw that their high contrast mode actually creates contrast issues (when filling in a form, the red error text is very difficult to read on a black background), even for fully-sighted users.

It's also bizarre that they refer to this mode as a high-contrast mode, since overall it doesn't really offer higher contrast ratios; it's really much more of a night mode (as the icon seems to indicate).

Also, their Accessibility Statement only lists phone numbers for how to give feedback. When you call one of those numbers, they ask if you want to leave a message for the President. When you tell them why you're calling, they tell you to use the general feedback form on the White House website (which is not mentioned/linked on the Accessibility Statement page. The last thing you want to do when collecting accessibility feedback is put a convoluted path like this in front of the user. Nearly everyone will just give up.

TLDR: the government can't even get this right on its own websites.

[Rule35]

Leave a message for the president explaining that his website's instructions are broken (and that it's literally easier to contact him than a webmaster).