How our accessibility reports are produced

Accessibility is a legal requirement — under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the United States, Section 508 for federal entities, and the European Accessibility Act (EAA) across the EU since June 2025. The recognized technical standard those laws point to is WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Our reports measure public pages against it.

The engine

Each report is produced by an automated scan using axe-core 4.11.4, the industry-standard open-source accessibility rules engine, evaluated against WCAG 2.0/2.1/2.2 A and AA rule sets (AAA-only rules excluded, since AAA is not the legal bar). We scan the page in its default state as it is publicly served.

What we report

We report automatically-detectable failures — the same class of issues that the automated scanners used by accessibility-litigation operations flag. A page's grade reflects how many high-frequency barrier types it fails. We surface each issue in plain language with concrete, non-technical remediation guidance.

What we don't claim

Automated testing catches a meaningful share of accessibility barriers but not all of them — full WCAG conformance also requires manual and assistive-technology testing. A report finding issues means the page has real, fixable problems; the absence of a report does not certify full conformance. We do not provide legal advice.

Integrity

Every report is a faithful capture of the page as it was publicly served on the stated date, sealed with a tamper-evident hash and anchored to a trusted RFC-3161 timestamp — independently verifiable. We report only what the page publicly returned at scan time.

Corrections and re-scans

Fixed your site? Re-scan it and the report updates automatically — and comes down entirely once you pass. Site owners can also request removal by verifying domain control.