Report Example

Anatomy of the Report: A Professional Overview

Each accessibility report is a comprehensive, standalone analysis document designed for clarity and actionability. The report is structured into the following key components:

Executive Summary & Scan Parameters

The document begins with essential metadata providing context for the scan results. This section includes:

• Report Identification: A main title and the specific target URL or file path that was the subject of the scan.
• Scan Configuration: An overview of the parameters used during the scan, such as the execution date, the defined crawl depth, and the screenshot generation mode.
• Top-Level Findings: A quantitative summary of unique issue types, categorized by severity level (Critical, Serious, Moderate, and Minor). Each severity level is color-coded for immediate visual assessment, allowing stakeholders to quickly gauge the overall accessibility posture.

Scan Execution & Scope Details

This section provides transparency into the scanning process itself, detailing any limitations or errors encountered.

• Crawl & Setup Errors: An enumeration of all URLs that the scanner was unable to access due to network timeouts, HTTP errors, or other connectivity issues.
• Page Scan Errors: A list of pages that were successfully accessed but where the accessibility audit engine could not execute correctly.
• PDF Tagging Analysis: For scans configured to check PDFs, this area presents the findings, indicating whether discovered PDF documents were identified as "Tagged" or "Not Tagged."
• Skipped Pages: A detailed log of all URLs that were discovered but intentionally excluded from the scan, with explicit reasons such as exclusion by user-defined patterns or robots.txt directives.

Detailed Accessibility Findings

The core of the report presents an in-depth analysis of all detected accessibility issues, organized for efficient review and remediation.

• Severity-Based Grouping: All identified issues are grouped by their severity level. These groups are presented in collapsible sections, enabling users to focus on the most critical findings first.
• Issue Analysis: Each unique issue type is detailed with the following information:
  • Violation Description: A clear, concise explanation of the accessibility issue and its impact on users.
  • Remediation & Standards: The specific axe-core rule ID is provided, along with a direct link to the official Deque University knowledge base for comprehensive remediation guidance. Associated WCAG success criteria are also listed.
  • Violation Instances: A complete record of every page and viewport configuration where the issue was detected.
  • Element-Specific Data: For each individual violation, the report provides the exact HTML source code snippet and the precise CSS selector, enabling development teams to pinpoint the element without ambiguity.
  • Visual Evidence: Where applicable, an icon indicates an available screenshot. Activating this icon opens a full-size image of the page with the non-compliant element clearly highlighted, offering immediate visual context for the issue.

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