Scoring your accessibility
To support the proper assessment of accessibility measures, we've created a scorecard that outlines the ways that we recommend testing your UI and assessing how well it meets accessibility expectations. A completed scorecard can help you communicate the accessibility of your UI to stakeholders by clearly identifying how it meets important criteria.
Scoring your accessibility shouldn't be a one-time thing. It's something that you should do routinely to assess your product as it evolves.
An accessibility scorecard offers a higher-level overview of the current state of your product's accessibility, but it is not intended to replace a full accessibility audit, as described by our accessibility testing guide. An accessibility audit is a vital part of creating your accessibility scorecard.
PatternFly.org accessibility scorecard
The following example demonstrates what a completed scorecard may look like by assessing the PatternFly.org website documentation.
| Criteria | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility report generated using axe-core based tooling. | ✅ | Q2 2024 report (April 23, 2024) 24 violations found |
| Manual keyboard and screen reader testing conducted. | -- | |
| Accessibility violations in product itemized and prioritized. Notes should indicate how violations were identified - i.e. via generated report and/or manual testing. | ✅ | patternfly/patternfly-org issue #3979 Errors identified via generated report. |
| Critical and major accessibility violations identified in item #3 resolved (%). | -- | 24 violations remaining |
| Automated accessibility checks added to pull request or equivalent code acceptance criteria. | -- | |
| Manual keyboard and screen reader accessibility checks added to pull request or equivalent code acceptance criteria. | ✅ | Accessibility devs identified and tagged on relevant PRs to manually review screen reader and keyboard interactions |
| CI/CD Process established to track accessibility violations/regressions. CI/CD process could be wired up to use https://www.deque.com/axe/ or the patternfly-a11y tool (also built using axe) | -- | Report configuration created, needs to be hooked into CI/CD |
| Website built with PatternFly React components. Could note alternate design systems/component libraries along with reference to their accessibility docs. | ✅ | |
| PatternFly React is up to date with the latest release | ✅ | Current versions: "@patternfly/patternfly": "5.3.0", "@patternfly/react-core": "5.3.0" |
| User testing conducted (Extra credit 🌟) | -- |
