Stats as of 2026-09-18 21:49 UTC — last scan: 2026-09-18

211 scan batches run

87,690 of 87,696 available pages scanned (100.0% coverage) 80,220 of 87,690 scanned pages were reachable (91.5%) 38,975 of 80,220 reachable pages have an accessibility statement (48.6%) 34,114 pages have the statement link in the footer (87.5% of pages with a statement)

đź“Ą Machine-readable results are available as the accessibility-data.json artifact (machine-readable JSON).

Each country entry in the JSON file includes page-level evidence for pages with and without accessibility statements, plus a per-domain summary you can share to validate the published counts.

Hover or focus any non-zero count in the country table to preview the matching pages. If there are 20 or fewer URLs, the preview shows all of them; otherwise it shows a short sample. Full machine-readable data is available as the accessibility-data.json artifact (machine-readable JSON).

Accessibility Statement Scan by Country

Country Scanned Available Reachable Has Statement In Footer Statement % Scan Period
Austria 822 822 787 556 525 70.6% Aug 2026
Belgium 1,329 1,329 1,237 574 523 46.4% Aug 2026
Bulgaria 353 353 305 95 84 31.1% Aug 2026
Canada 4,469 4,469 4,220 1,048 843 24.8% Aug 2026
Croatia 257 257 254 105 80 41.3% Aug 2026
Czechia 866 866 798 446 395 55.9% Aug 2026
Denmark 1,536 1,536 1,507 959 941 63.6% Aug 2026
Estonia 401 401 390 149 79 38.2% Aug 2026
Finland 199 199 188 133 126 70.7% Aug 2026
France 10,009 10,009 9,012 3,963 3,834 44.0% Aug 2026 – Sep 2026
Germany 6,599 6,599 6,410 4,682 3,949 73.0% Aug 2026 – Sep 2026
Greece 1,752 1,752 1,621 421 267 26.0% Aug 2026
Hungary 392 392 293 57 49 19.5% Aug 2026
Iceland 145 145 143 14 5 9.8% Aug 2026
Ireland 536 536 499 251 238 50.3% Aug 2026
Italy 5,351 5,351 4,759 2,488 2,411 52.3% Aug 2026 – Sep 2026
Latvia 803 803 762 492 449 64.6% Aug 2026
Lithuania 122 122 112 1 0 0.9% Aug 2026
Luxembourg 573 573 477 299 288 62.7% Aug 2026
Malta 610 610 595 383 378 64.4% Aug 2026
Netherlands 945 945 902 413 405 45.8% Aug 2026
Norway 249 249 242 112 104 46.3% Aug 2026
Poland 14,951 14,951 13,519 5,683 3,629 42.0% Aug 2026 – Sep 2026
Portugal 3,508 3,508 2,904 800 661 27.5% Aug 2026
Cyprus 29 29 29 1 1 3.4% Aug 2026
Romania 807 807 349 30 10 8.6% Aug 2026
Slovakia 442 442 413 185 166 44.8% Aug 2026
Slovenia 214 214 207 116 81 56.0% Aug 2026
Spain 6,091 6,091 5,131 2,356 2,073 45.9% Aug 2026
Sweden 1,702 1,702 1,556 895 810 57.5% Aug 2026
Switzerland 2,123 2,123 2,076 1,026 1,025 49.4% Aug 2026
United Kingdom 19,511 19,511 18,529 10,248 9,691 55.3% Aug 2026 – Sep 2026
Total 87,696 87,696 80,226 38,981 34,120 48.6% —

Statement % is the percentage of reachable pages that contain at least one link to an accessibility statement.

Overview

The accessibility statement scanner checks whether each government page links to an accessibility statement as required by the EU Web Accessibility Directive (Directive 2016/2102).

Under the Directive, public-sector bodies must:

  1. Publish an accessibility statement describing the accessibility of their website or mobile app.
  2. Include a clearly labelled link to that statement on the page, ideally in the footer.

The scanner detects these links using multilingual term matching across all 24 EU official languages plus Norwegian and Icelandic.

Scans run automatically every 4 hours via GitHub Actions so that the full set of ~80,000 URLs across 31 countries can be covered gradually without overloading government servers.

What Is Checked

For each scanned page the scanner:

  1. Fetches the page HTML.
  2. Searches first inside <footer> elements for links whose text or href matches known accessibility-statement terminology.
  3. If not found in the footer, searches the entire page.
  4. Records whether a matching link was found, where it was found (footer or page body), and what text triggered the match.

Multilingual Term Matching

The glossary covers the following languages:

Region Languages
EU official languages Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
Allied nations Icelandic, Norwegian

Example recognised terms include “accessibility statement” (EN), “déclaration d’accessibilité” (FR), “Erklärung zur Barrierefreiheit” (DE), and equivalents in all supported languages.

Tier Classification

Each scanned page is assigned one of three outcomes:

Outcome Meaning
unreachable Page could not be fetched (network error, timeout, 4xx/5xx)
no_statement Page is reachable but no accessibility statement link was found
has_statement Page contains at least one link to an accessibility statement

Pages where the statement link was found inside a <footer> element are additionally flagged with found_in_footer = true, since placing the link in the footer is considered best practice.

Viewing Results

Scan Progress Report

The Scan Progress Report includes a per-country accessibility statement breakdown showing:

  • Total pages scanned and reachable count
  • Number of pages with a statement link
  • Number of pages where the link was found in the footer
  • Date range showing when each country was last scanned

GitHub Actions Artifacts

Each workflow run uploads a scan artifact containing:

  • data/metadata.db — the full SQLite results database
  • accessibility-scan-output.txt — the raw scan log
  • data/toon-seeds/countries/**_accessibility.toon — annotated TOON files

To download artifacts:

  1. Go to GitHub Actions → Scan Accessibility Statements
  2. Click on the relevant workflow run
  3. Scroll to the Artifacts section at the bottom of the run summary page
  4. Download accessibility-scan-<run_number> to inspect the database or TOON files

Running a Scan Manually

  1. Go to Actions → Scan Accessibility Statements
  2. Click Run workflow
  3. Optionally enter a country code (e.g. ICELAND) or leave blank to scan all
  4. Optionally adjust the rate limit (default: 1.0 req/sec)

Via the command line

# Scan a single country
python3 -m src.cli.scan_accessibility --country ICELAND --rate-limit 1.0

# Scan all countries (with a 110-minute runtime cap)
python3 -m src.cli.scan_accessibility --all --max-runtime 110 --rate-limit 1.0

Output Format

Annotated TOON file (*_accessibility.toon)

Each page entry gains an accessibility field:

{
  "url": "https://example.gov/",
  "is_root_page": true,
  "accessibility": {
    "is_reachable": true,
    "has_statement": true,
    "found_in_footer": true,
    "statement_links": ["https://example.gov/accessibility"],
    "matched_terms": ["accessibility statement"]
  }
}

Database table (url_accessibility_results)

Column Type Description
url TEXT Page URL
country_code TEXT Country identifier (e.g. ICELAND)
scan_id TEXT Unique scan run identifier
is_reachable INTEGER 1 = reachable, 0 = not reachable
has_statement INTEGER 1 = accessibility statement link found
found_in_footer INTEGER 1 = link was found inside a <footer> element
statement_links TEXT JSON list of resolved statement URLs
matched_terms TEXT JSON list of matched glossary terms
error_message TEXT Error message if fetch failed
scanned_at TEXT ISO-8601 timestamp of scan

Countries Covered

Scans cover all 27 EU member states plus 4 allied nations:

Region Countries
EU member states Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Cyprus, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Allied nations Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Architecture

flowchart TD
    A["scan-accessibility.yml\n(GitHub Actions — every 4 hours)"]
    A --> B["scan_accessibility.py (CLI)"]
    B --> C["AccessibilityScannerJob.scan_country()"]
    C --> D["AccessibilityScanner.scan_urls_batch()"]
    D --> E["For each URL"]
    E --> F["httpx.get() → HTML content"]
    F --> G["BeautifulSoup → find footer links, then full-page links\nMatch against multilingual glossary terms"]
    G --> H["Classify: has_statement / found_in_footer"]
    H --> I["Save to url_accessibility_results table"]
    I --> J["Write *_accessibility.toon output file"]