Capstone audit
Audit This: CityLights — W3C’s real ‘Before and After Demonstration’ site
CityLights (W3C Before & After Demo) · The live, real 'before' (inaccessible) pages of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative's Before and After Demonstration — a real, publicly hosted site built specifically to teach accessibility auditing.
Briefing
This is a real, still-live website at w3.org/WAI/demos/bad/before/, built by the W3C's own Education and Outreach Working Group specifically as an intentionally inaccessible teaching site. You can open the actual pages yourself: the Survey page (w3.org/WAI/demos/bad/before/survey.html) and the News page (w3.org/WAI/demos/bad/before/news.html). Every check below was verified against the live page content, not invented — go look.
Your task
Go through each check below and mark it Pass or Fail based on what you observe on the live pages. Some checks describe genuinely correct, compliant behavior — don't assume everything is broken. After completing every check, rank the ones you marked Fail from most to least severe.
Checklist
Mark each check Pass or Fail. Some checks describe correct, compliant behavior.