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For a website for senior women I can't help but scratch my head at how inaccessible your website is.

All your images are missing alt tags, which is accessibility 101.

The light pink text #E6989C on white #FFFFFF fails every contrast checker and is even hard for me as a young person to read.

Edit: I think you need bigger fonts (dates are 14px..nothing should probably be less than 18px), bolder font weights, deeper color contrast across the board.

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I really appreciate that feedback. If there are other changes we could make to boost accessibility, please let me know.

If you haven't checked them out yet, the accessibility tools in Google Chrome's Lighthouse[1] audits were absurdly helpful to me when I had to do an accessibility audit on a recent marketing site. They're not totally exhaustive, but it's certainly a fantastic start and would have at least helped you catch low hanging fruit like contrast.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse

Amazing, thank you!

Please also give Firefox nightly a try

see https://youtu.be/lHBE0mIDTHk

screenshot https://i.imgur.com/kdzc26U.png

Thanks!

Major ones I would fix are:

- your 404 page is returning a 200 status code instead of 404 (making it hard for Google to know what's a broken page)

- your server isn't compressing (i.e. gzip) any of the responses which will impact speed a lot.

- you have several broken external links e.g. one to chandlerdpethpsych.com

I used this Chrome extension (I'm the author) to crawl and find these issues if you want to check and confirm fixes:

https://www.checkbot.io

Thank you!

This is kind of a nit-pick, but aside from what others have mentioned, your font for large and bold text (e.g. "As a woman over fifty...") is hard to read (and my vision is good). I'd suggest something clean, straight, sans-serif, and easily recognizable. Helvetica is probably a safe bet, though I'm certainly not a designer and am approaching more from a standpoint of legibility than usability.

I appreciate this suggestion!

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