Once an Expert Manual Review is complete, a Manual Expert Audit section appears on the scan's results page and in its report. It is the most complete picture of your pages you can get from the platform.
The summary card
At the top: how many criteria were reviewed, and how many passed, failed and were not applicable. It also records that the review was carried out by a certified accessibility specialist.
The four tabs
Criteria are grouped under the four WCAG principles: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust. See WCAG 2.1 AA in plain language for what each covers.
Each criterion
- PASS. The specialist checked it and your pages meet it.
- FAIL. Your pages do not meet it. This includes any criterion an automated test failed.
- N/A. It does not apply to your pages, for example captions on a site with no video. It is left out of your score.
Failures carry a severity and, often, an Expert Note explaining what was found and where. These notes are where most of the value is. They describe the problems automation cannot see, in plain language.
Beyond the legal minimum
Below the criteria is a section on WCAG 2.2 and best practices. These are extra checks the specialist carries out, such as target size, focus visibility and accessible sign in, and whether you publish an accessibility statement. They do not affect your compliance score. They show where the standard is heading and where your site could go further. See WCAG 2.2 and best practices.
Using it
- Every FAIL is a named requirement you can put on a work plan.
- Expert Notes on failures that automation did not find are usually the most important items. Nothing else in your results will tell you about them.
- The report turns the failures into a Priority Remediation Roadmap, grouped by severity.