Report Generation

Report File

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

Required Sections

Every audit report MUST include these sections:

1. Audit Information - date, auditor, profile, scope, counts
2. Executive Summary - totals, pass rate, most common issue, effort estimate
3. Cross-Document Patterns - recurring issues, systemic failures
4. Findings by File - per-document issues with rule ID, severity, location, WCAG, impact, remediation
5. Findings by Rule (Cross-Reference) - rule-level aggregation across files
6. What Passed - acknowledge clean documents and categories
7. Remediation Priority - ordered by impact (Immediate / Soon / When Possible)
8. Accessibility Scorecard - per-document scores and grades
9. Metadata Dashboard - document properties health
10. 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