# Audeep audit report: www.highwire.news

- **Grade:** F (46/100)
- **Target:** https://www.highwire.news/
- **Tier:** quick
- **Audited:** 2026-08-06T15:30:57.607Z (UTC)
- **Pages crawled:** 1 (single page)
- **Observe-only:** Verified ✓. 3 non-GET blocked, 136/145 requests to target

## Summary

31 evidence-backed findings: 0 critical, 2 high, 23 medium, 6 low.

By category (of the 3 included): Accessibility 1 · Performance 1 · UX 1.

### Report card

| Dimension | Grade | Score | Findings |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Functional | A | 100/100 | 0 |
| Security | A | 97/100 | 3 |
| Accessibility | C | 88/100 | 1 |
| UX | C | 75/100 | 21 |
| Performance | C | 83/100 | 3 |
| SEO | A | 100/100 | 0 |
| Design | B | 91/100 | 3 |

> Note: this is a free Quick report. It includes the top 3 findings; 28 more (see severity totals above) are available in the Deep report.

## Product understanding

- Source: surface-observation
- Product: Not identified
- Category: unknown
- Summary: This report used the audited public surface without paid discovery context.

## Coverage

- Access: public
- Status: complete
- Rendered pages: 1/1
- Target requests: 136/80
- Synthetic signup completed: no
- Post-signup target writes: 0

## Observed actions

No target actions were recorded for this report.

## Safe stops

No safe stop was triggered.

## Cleanup and residue

- Status: not-required
- Summary: No synthetic account or target records were created by this audit.

## Finding verification

- e9437e8d-69ba-41cc-8cfb-aa47ad542e3e-wcag-control-name-3: evidence-backed (screenshot, dom-selector). The finding is tied to evidence captured during this audit.
- e9437e8d-69ba-41cc-8cfb-aa47ad542e3e-cwv-lcp-25: evidence-backed (screenshot, dom-selector, request). The finding is tied to evidence captured during this audit.
- e9437e8d-69ba-41cc-8cfb-aa47ad542e3e-ux-tap-target-16: evidence-backed (screenshot, dom-selector). The finding is tied to evidence captured during this audit.

## Headline finding

### [HIGH] Interactive control has no accessible name

- Category: Accessibility · Confidence: confirmed · Type: `wcag-control-name`
- Detail: A visible a has no text, label, title, or ARIA name.
- Evidence: `section[aria-label="Lead story"] > header:nth-of-type(1) > div:nth-of-type(1) > figure:nth-of-type(1) > a:nth-of-type(1)`
- Screenshot: /audit-artifacts/e9437e8d-69ba-41cc-8cfb-aa47ad542e3e/page.png
- Page: https://www.highwire.news/

## All findings, grouped by severity

### HIGH: 2 issues

#### 1. Interactive control has no accessible name

- Severity: high · Category: Accessibility · Confidence: confirmed · Type: `wcag-control-name`
- Detail: A visible a has no text, label, title, or ARIA name.
- Evidence: `section[aria-label="Lead story"] > header:nth-of-type(1) > div:nth-of-type(1) > figure:nth-of-type(1) > a:nth-of-type(1)`
- Screenshot: /audit-artifacts/e9437e8d-69ba-41cc-8cfb-aa47ad542e3e/page.png
- Page: https://www.highwire.news/

#### 2. Largest Contentful Paint is slow

- Severity: high · Category: Performance · Confidence: confirmed · Type: `cwv-lcp`
- Detail: Lab LCP measured 4852ms (poor).
- Evidence: `GET / -> 200`
- Selector: `html > body:nth-of-type(1) > footer:nth-of-type(1)`
- Request: GET https://www.highwire.news/ → 200
- Screenshot: /audit-artifacts/e9437e8d-69ba-41cc-8cfb-aa47ad542e3e/page.png
- Page: https://www.highwire.news/

### MEDIUM: 1 issue

#### 1. Tap target is too small on mobile

- Severity: medium · Category: UX · Confidence: confirmed · Type: `ux-tap-target`
- Detail: "High confidence" renders at 140x23px in the first mobile viewport.
- Evidence: `a[href="/[sensitive-page]"]`
- Screenshot: /audit-artifacts/e9437e8d-69ba-41cc-8cfb-aa47ad542e3e/page.png
- Page: https://www.highwire.news/

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