What's the difference between the accessibility health score and risk management status? – Level Access Help Center

The accessibility health score and risk management status are two different metrics that can help guide your accessibility journey. While the metrics serve different purposes, they are related and can be used in tandem to reach your accessibility goals.

The table below outlines the differences between the accessibility health score and risk management

status.

Basis of comparison	Accessibility health score (automated scans)	Digital asset risk management	Workspace risk management	Organization risk management
Purpose	Represents the accessibility of your digital asset based on the results of automated scans run in the platform (a quick scan, advanced scan, or monitoring). The score only represents a single scan rather than a combination of scans. Learn more about the accessibility health score.	Represents the remediation progress of a digital asset based on the number of resolved findings and default accessibility policies for both manual evaluations and automated scans/monitoring. Find the digital asset risk management status on the digital asset Overview page. Learn more about the risk management status.	Represents the remediation progress of the workspace based on the average risk status across all digital assets in a workspace. Find the workspace risk management status on the workspace Dashboard.	Represents the remediation progress of the organization based on the average risk status across all workspaces in the organization. Find the organization risk management status on the Program dashboard. Note that only Enterprise customers in the organization administrator user group can access the organization risk management status.
Metric	Numeric: 0-100	Status: Behind, Needs attention, On track, and Excelling.	Status: Behind, Needs attention, On track, and Excelling.	Status: Behind, Needs attention, On track, and Excelling.
Data source	Automated scans	Automated scans and manual evaluations.	Risk management status across all digital assets.	Risk management status across all digital assets.
Calculation	Calculated from a scan's results. The calculation uses the: Number of rules passed and failed. Number of recommendations passed and failed. Severity of rules and recommendations that failed.	Calculated using the number of resolved findings and default policy thresholds. The calculation uses the: Number of resolved findings. Number of overdue critical severity findings. Number of overdue high severity findings. Number of overdue low severity findings. For organizations using custom severities, the calculation also includes one or both of the following: Number of overdue findings for custom severity 1. Number of overdue findings for custom severity 2.	Calculated using the average risk management status across your workspace.	Calculated using the average risk management status across your organization.

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