Just opted out today. 

I found text on the page quite hard to read using a thing grey font on white 
background as well. 

John hilvert
Ph: +61 419 639 572
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> On 25 Jul 2018, at 07:58, Tom Worthington <tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> On 24/07/18 08:19, JLWhitaker wrote:
>> 
>> Remember accessibility? I guess ADHA forgot. ...
> 
> The opt out pages for My Health Record have at the bottom:
> 
>    "We have designed this website to meet the Australian Government
>    standard. We aim to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
>    (WCAG) 2.0 level AA. Meeting these guidelines improves
>    accessibility and your experience."
> 
> So I ran the pages trough the the aChecker accessibility test: 
> https://achecker.ca/
> 
> The introductory pages were okay, but problems started at the first of the 
> three pages where the user had to start inputting data:
> 
> https://optout.myhealthrecord.gov.au/pext/optoutextweb/views/getStarted.xhtml
> 
> This page had 3 "Known Problems" and 169 "Potential Problems".
> 
> The My Health Record opt out function does not appear to follow the Web 
> Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 level AA. The requirement to do 
> so was established in the Sydney 2000 Olympics case in the Human Rights 
> Commission. I was one of the expert witnesses: 
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/socog-case-study
> 
> ps: The Google Page Speed Tool rates the Page Speed as "Average" and 
> Optimization as "Low" at 34 / 100. The tool gives recommendations to speed up 
> the page: 
> https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?utm_source=pubinsights&filter_third_party_resources=true&hl=en&url=https%3A%2F%2Foptout.myhealthrecord.gov.au%2Fpext%2Foptoutextweb%2Fviews%2FgetStarted.xhtml&priorityGroup=usability&tab=desktop
> 
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