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Reading your report

What each section of an Audsey report tells you, and which parts to read first.

Every report comes as a web page and a matching PDF. They have the same sections, in this order.

If you only have five minutes

Read At a glance and the Executive summary. Together they tell you where the site stands, what changed and what to do next, in plain language.

The sections

At a glance

The Accessibility index, the standard tested against (WCAG 2.2 AA unless your contract names another), the date, how many pages were tested, and the error and alert counts.

Executive summary

A short narrative written for owners and managers, not developers: the most important problems, who they affect, and the order to fix them in. It never claims your site is “compliant”; see the index for why.

Before and after

Only in reports compared with an earlier one. See Before and after.

WCAG criteria

One row per WCAG success criterion, with its status: met, partly met, not met, needs human verification or not applicable, and the issues behind any criterion that isn’t met.

Issues by priority

Every issue, grouped by root cause, most important first. Each group shows:

  • what’s wrong, in plain words, and who it affects
  • the WCAG criteria it relates to
  • how many pages and elements it appears on, with screenshots
  • how confident we are: high when two independent engines flagged the same element, medium when one did

Remediation roadmap

The issues again, as a plan: what to fix first, and where the fix belongs (the theme, a template, a page-builder widget, a plugin, or the content).

Method and limitations

What was tested and how: the pages, screen sizes and interactive states; the engines and their exact versions; and what testing by a person covered. It also says what a report can’t tell you. Please read it before you quote the report to anyone.

Appendix

The list of pages and run details, so a later report can be compared like for like.

Sharing a report

You can share the PDF with anyone. If you’re sending it to a lawyer, an insurer or a buyer, send the whole report rather than the index alone: the index without its method section is easy to misread.