In this lesson you
- Read the library against each WCAG success criterion
- Saw who clears each open check: a person, or AI with a person
- Saw what has been fixed since each document arrived
Transcript
Criterion by criterion
The WCAG scorecard. If someone asks how accessible your documents are, the honest answer is rarely one number. WCAG, the accessibility standard, is a list of separate requirements. Each one is called a success criterion. This page, the WCAG Scorecard, shows your library requirement by requirement, instead of document by document. That tells you where the remaining work is, and what kind of work it is. Each row is one check, and the number before its name is the criterion it tests. The rows are ranked by how many documents they affect, so the biggest problems come first. The colors show where each document stands on that check. Red means a confirmed violation. Amber means a person still has to review it. Green means it passes. Grey means the check doesn't apply to that document. At the top is logical reading order, criterion 1.3.2. It asks whether a screen reader reads the page in the order a sighted reader would. Three of your eight documents still need a person to confirm that order, because only a person can judge what order makes sense. If you're not sure what a criterion asks for, select its number. It opens the official W3C explanation of that criterion in a new tab. That's the standard your documents are measured against. Below reading order, two separate checks each have one confirmed violation. Color contrast is about text too faint to read against its background. Figures alternate text is about pictures with no description, so a screen reader user doesn't know what they show.
From the numbers to the documents
A number tells you how big a problem is. To fix it, you need to know which documents have it. Each bar is also a way in. The red part opens the documents with a confirmed violation. The amber part opens the ones waiting for review. The count on the right opens both together. Let's select the amber part of the reading order bar. The Library opens with only those three documents. The banner at the top names the check you came from. From here, a reviewer can open each document and confirm its reading order. The banner can also switch to the failing documents, or clear the filter. To go back, choose Scorecard.
Who clears each check
Knowing what's open is half the picture. The other half is what it takes to close it. Under each check that still needs work, a tag tells you who clears it. Human review means a person has to make the call. AI-assisted means AI drafts the fix, and a person confirms it. That helps you plan who does the remaining work, and how much of it there is.
What has been fixed
You'll also want to show that things are getting better. That's the next section, What has been fixed. It compares each check when a document first arrived with where it stands today. Since your documents arrived, six violations were cleared, from eight down to two. Proof's automatic pass cleared five of them, on one document. The sixth was a picture description that a reviewer accepted.
Take it with you
If you need the numbers behind this page, for a report or your own records, choose Scorecard CSV. It downloads a spreadsheet with every row of the scorecard. For a printed copy, choose Save as PDF. To send someone a link to these numbers, use Share assessment, which has its own lesson. Now you can tell which requirements your documents meet, which they don't, and where to start closing the gap.
Recap
That's the end of this lesson.
Maple Ridge Community Health, its documents and its people are fictional, made for these lessons.