Beta: Check the Conformance report

The conformance score is currently in beta. To learn more about joining the beta program, reach out to our team at beta@levelaccess.com.

The Conformance report is a tab on the Evaluation results page that shows you your conformance score, recommendations, and the score breakdown. The Conformance report helps you understand:

• Your website/app's conformance level against WCAG success criteria.
• Next steps to improve the accessibility your website/app.
• How the score is calculated and the impact of the findings.

You can also view your evaluation results from the evaluation report and findings tab.

On this page:

• Go to evaluations
• Conformance score
• Recommendations
• Score breakdown
• Prioritization options

Go to evaluations

When your evaluation is complete, we’ll let you know by email. The results will be available on the platform.

Note: you can't access evaluations that aren't complete.

To view the results of an evaluation:

1. Go to Websites/apps.
2. Select the website or app you'd like to review.
3. Choose Evaluations.
4. View the conformances score in the Conformance score column or select the evaluation name to open the results.

Conformance score

The conformance score is a measure of accessibility based on evaluations. On a scale of 0–100, or weak to strong, it shows the degree to which a webpage meets or violates the tested success criteria. 

The conformance score is inspired by WCAG standards and the VPAT framework. It measures accessibility of each success criteria using findings by severity and assigning a status that has a corresponding score. The final conformance score is the average score of all tested success criteria.

Learn more about how the conformance score is calculated and how to improve it.

Prioritization options

Prioritization options adjust your recommendations and score breakdown to align with your remediation goals. The prioritization option are:

• Optimize for risk mitigation focuses on the success criteria with the most critical findings.

  Note that success criteria are not prioritized in order of those that typically generate the most legal risk, rather, it focuses on success criteria with the highest exposure to risk based on the number of critical findings.

• Impact score quickly focuses on the success criteria with the fewest critical findings.
• Optimize for VPAT focuses on success criteria with the fewest total findings.

To update your prioritization options:

1. Select Prioritization options.
2. Choose a prioritization option.
3. Select Save.

Recommendations

The recommendations section details the most impactful path to improve your conformance score. It lists the top three success criteria, their score impact, and links you to the finding. Each organization works differently, so you can use the prioritization options for tailored recommendations.

Score breakdown

Use the score list to prioritize remediation and dig into all the findings for a success criteria. Automatically sort the score breakdown list using the prioritization option that makes the most sense for you.

The score breakdown lists:

• All success criteria tested.
• Number of findings based on the selected prioritization option.
  • Optimize for risk mitigation orders the success criteria by the highest number of critical findings.
  • Impact score quickly orders the success criteria by the lowest lowest number of critical findings. 
  • Optimize for VPAT shows you the total number of findings regardless of severity and sorts them based on the lowest number of findings. 
• Score impact. The score impact is the value your score will increase if you fix the number of findings shown in the findings column. 

Select the value in the Findings column to drill in to the success criteria findings. The drill in option shows you the:

• Number of findings to fix for each severity.
• Score impact for each severity.
• Number of screens affected by the accessibility issue.

To look at the findings, select the value in the Findings to fix column to go to a filtered list of the findings.