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Consistent with the EU Model Accessibility Statement, use findings to generate "overall accessibility" for the Executive Summary #346
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In 5. Report Findings, instructions for the Executive Summary field suggest that users "describe the overall accessibility of the website". Regulations of the European Union (EU) provide a way for such a description to be generated automatically.
The 2018 Model Accessibility Statement requires public sector bodies in the EU to use the following boilerplate in public-facing accessibility statements.
Normative footnotes specify how to choose the overall accessibility rating.
The EU Model Accessibility Statement lists "a link to an evaluation report" as "optional content" which may be added...
No specific language is required in the evaluation report. However, it would be strange if the Executive Summary of an EU evaluation report gave a different overall rating compared with the Accessibility Statement that linked to it.
Therefore, it would be useful to generate a corresponding "fully compliant" / "partially compliant" / "not compliant" statement based on whether "most requirements of the standard... are met".
This overall accessibility rating should be offered to users as optional. Instructions should identify its relevance to the EU public sector.
Note: based on past experience with WCAG reports for many different products, condition "c" will be rare ("most requirements of the standard... are not met"). Even for products with lots of accessibility problems, it's hard to fail 50% or more of the WCAG criteria, because many criteria are not applicable to any given product.
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