Stats as of 2026-05-27 17:24 UTC — last scan: 2026-05-27

46 scan batches run

51,248 of 82,714 available pages scanned (62.0% coverage) 47,086 of 51,248 scanned pages were reachable (91.9%) 22,976 of 47,086 reachable pages have an accessibility statement (48.8%) 20,394 pages have the statement link in the footer (88.8% of pages with a statement)

📥 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 821 821 778 547 517 70.3% May 2026
Belgium 1,309 1,309 1,219 558 508 45.8% May 2026
Bulgaria 291 291 264 61 59 23.1% May 2026
Croatia 233 233 227 83 59 36.6% May 2026
Czechia 843 843 799 409 351 51.2% May 2026
Denmark 1,521 1,521 1,495 960 940 64.2% May 2026
Estonia 396 396 380 141 77 37.1% May 2026
Finland 180 180 170 115 108 67.6% May 2026
France 5,699 10,007 5,366 1,726 1,650 32.2% May 2026
Germany 6,555 6,555 6,395 4,570 3,837 71.5% May 2026
Greece 1,748 1,748 1,600 404 244 25.2% May 2026
Hungary 390 390 278 49 41 17.6% May 2026
Iceland 139 139 135 12 5 8.9% May 2026
Ireland 522 522 487 211 196 43.3% May 2026
Italy 5,338 5,338 4,816 2,645 2,573 54.9% May 2026
Latvia 802 802 756 485 445 64.2% May 2026
Lithuania 120 120 110 0 0 0.0% May 2026
Luxembourg 571 571 392 228 217 58.2% May 2026
Malta 608 608 590 384 377 65.1% May 2026
Netherlands 937 937 906 440 430 48.6% May 2026
Norway 239 239 233 107 101 45.9% May 2026
Poland 4,911 14,938 4,505 1,753 1,215 38.9% May 2026
Portugal 3,503 3,503 2,857 865 702 30.3% May 2026
Cyprus 24 24 24 0 0 0.0% May 2026
Romania 737 799 298 19 7 6.4% May 2026
Slovakia 434 434 408 186 171 45.6% May 2026
Slovenia 200 200 190 100 74 52.6% May 2026
Spain 2,973 6,069 2,602 1,097 935 42.2% May 2026
Sweden 1,558 1,558 1,474 837 764 56.8% May 2026
Switzerland 2,117 2,117 2,072 991 990 47.8% May 2026
United Kingdom 5,529 19,502 5,260 2,993 2,801 56.9% May 2026
Total 51,248 82,714 47,086 22,976 20,394 48.8% —

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"]