Stats as of 2026-07-23 05:24 UTC — last scan: 2026-07-22

24 scan batches run

13,296 of 87,696 available pages scanned (15.2% coverage) 12,222 of 13,296 scanned pages were reachable (91.9%) 5,460 of 12,222 reachable pages have an accessibility statement (44.7%) 4,902 pages have the statement link in the footer (89.8% 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% Jul 2026
Belgium 712 1,329 653 306 280 46.9% Jul 2026
Bulgaria 353 353 316 98 87 31.0% Jul 2026
Canada 665 4,469 583 120 91 20.6% Jul 2026
Croatia 257 257 254 107 82 42.1% Jul 2026
Czechia 866 866 796 429 373 53.9% Jul 2026
Denmark 469 1,536 463 300 288 64.8% Jul 2026
Estonia 401 401 384 148 78 38.5% Jul 2026
Finland 199 199 188 134 127 71.3% Jul 2026
France 630 10,009 559 152 149 27.2% Jul 2026
Germany 1,029 6,599 976 656 597 67.2% Jul 2026
Greece 1,132 1,752 1,046 209 140 20.0% Jul 2026
Hungary 392 392 296 54 46 18.2% Jul 2026
Iceland 145 145 143 12 5 8.4% Jul 2026
Ireland 536 536 496 216 203 43.5% Jul 2026
Italy 308 5,351 293 237 237 80.9% Jul 2026
Latvia 803 803 761 489 448 64.3% Jul 2026
Lithuania 122 122 111 1 0 0.9% Jul 2026
Luxembourg 212 573 138 90 86 65.2% Jul 2026
Malta 610 610 592 381 376 64.4% Jul 2026
Netherlands 945 945 899 414 406 46.1% Jul 2026
Norway 249 249 242 109 101 45.0% Jul 2026
Poland 353 14,951 340 76 45 22.4% Jul 2026
Portugal 1,087 3,508 907 167 133 18.4% Jul 2026
Total 13,297 87,696 12,223 5,461 4,903 44.7% —

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"]