Report Generation

Report File

Default output: DOCUMENT-ACCESSIBILITY-AUDIT.md in the project root.

Required Sections

Every audit report MUST include these sections:

• Audit Information - date, auditor, profile, scope, counts

• Executive Summary - totals, pass rate, most common issue, effort estimate

• Cross-Document Patterns - recurring issues, systemic failures

• Findings by File - per-document issues with rule ID, severity, location, WCAG, impact, remediation

• Findings by Rule (Cross-Reference) - rule-level aggregation across files

• What Passed - acknowledge clean documents and categories

• Remediation Priority - ordered by impact (Immediate / Soon / When Possible)

• Accessibility Scorecard - per-document scores and grades

• Metadata Dashboard - document properties health

• Confidence Summary - breakdown by confidence level

Optional Sections (include when applicable)

• Template Analysis - when batch scanning detects shared templates

• Comparison Report - when re-scanning against a baseline

• CI/CD Recommendations - when no config files exist

Severity Scoring Formula

Document Score = 100 - (sum of weighted findings)

Weights: Error (high confidence): -10 points Error (medium confidence): -7 points Error (low confidence): -3 points Warning (high confidence): -3 points Warning (medium confidence):-2 points Warning (low confidence): -1 point Tips: 0 points

Floor: 0 (minimum score)

Score Grades

Score Grade Meaning

90-100 A Excellent - minor or no issues

75-89 B Good - some warnings, few errors

50-74 C Needs Work - multiple errors

25-49 D Poor - significant accessibility barriers

0-24 F Failing - critical barriers, likely unusable with AT

Organization Modes

Mode Description Best For

By file Group all issues under each document Small batches (< 10 files)

By issue type Group all instances of each rule across documents Seeing patterns

By severity Critical first, then serious, moderate, minor Prioritizing fixes

VPAT/ACR Compliance Export

Conformance Levels

Level Criteria

Supports No findings for this WCAG criterion across any document

Partially Supports Some documents pass, some fail

Does Not Support All or most documents fail

Not Applicable Criterion does not apply to scanned document types

Supported VPAT Editions

• VPAT 2.5 (WCAG) - maps to WCAG 2.2 criteria

• VPAT 2.5 (508) - maps to Revised Section 508 standards

• VPAT 2.5 (EN 301 549) - maps to EU accessibility directive

• VPAT 2.5 (INT) - International edition (all three combined)

Remediation Tracking

When comparing against a baseline audit report:

Status Meaning

Fixed Issue was in previous report but is now resolved

New Issue was not in previous report but appears now

Persistent Issue remains from previous report

Regressed Issue was previously fixed but has returned

Progress Metrics

• Issue reduction percentage: (fixed / previous_total) * 100

• Score change: current_score - previous_score

• Documents improved: count of documents with higher scores