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Lower the threshold for Lighthouse accessibility #791

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@choldgraf

I propose that we lower the threshold of accessibility for lighthouse, and create an issue that states our goal for accessibility on the website. Here is my rationale:

  • Currently, our lighthouse CI is failing on every PR. The last time I looked, we were averaging a score of ~.8 while the threshold is .95
  • This has created an "expected failures" CI dynamic.
  • This means that we aren't actually catching regressions in accessibility, which is what CI is most-useful for doing. It is simply telling us "your accessibility is still below threshold" on every PR.

For this reason:

  • I suggest lowering the threshold we use for CI so that it becomes a useful indicator again and can be used to influence PR decisions.
  • I suggest we open an issue that defines the goal for lighthouse accessibility we want to hit

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