Accessibility Scan Report

Title: GOV.UK Issue: #58 Date: 8/1/2026, 2:08:33 AM Duration: 29.6m URLs: 100 / 100
Viewport: Desktop (1280×800) Color scheme: both Browser: chromium
🖥️ Forced Colors: 100 / 100 URLs

🔄 Changes Since Last Scan

1085 New unique issues
8123 Not observed issues
🆕 New Issues (1085)
✅ Not Observed in This Scan (8123)

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Title keywords

VIEWPORT:desktop COLORSCHEME:both BROWSER:chromium

Issue body section

### Scan context Viewport: desktop ColorScheme: both Browser: chromium

Summary

Issues

  • By Level: A (1), AA (0)
  • By Version (A & AA): WCAG 2.0 (1)
  • Engines used: AXE, QualWeb
  • By Finding Type: Known errors (203) & Best practices (201)
  • Manual testing needed: 19 axe incomplete findings
  • Total: 404 across 6 unique rules & 2 accessibility engines

By Severity

Critical
Serious
Moderate
Minor

By Role

UX Designer
Visual Designer
Content Author
Front-End Developer

Issues

🎯 Pages with Most Errors

Focus your efforts on these pages to make the biggest impact. Click any error count to filter the rule list below. Total counts unique findings across the active scanners, and numbers in parentheses (+N) still show findings that cover WCAG criteria already reported by axe.
Publication of DWP research report 707: Employment and Support Allowance: findings from a face-to-face survey of customers - GOV.UK 6
Find a registered childminder - GOV.UK 5
Welcome to GOV.UK 5
Getting an accessibility audit - Service Manual - GOV.UK 4
Testing for accessibility - Service Manual - GOV.UK 4
Online debit and credit card payment support - GOV.UK 4
Technical support with VAT online services - GOV.UK 4
Domiciliary support service registration (Wales) - GOV.UK 4
Support services providing day care to adults registration (Scotland) - GOV.UK 4
Help find new ways to ease global disruption: apply for funding - GOV.UK 4

🧭 Reflow Risk (WCAG 1.4.10)

Page-level indicator: resizes to 320 CSS pixels wide and checks for horizontal overflow. This is a risk indicator, not a conformance verdict — see Behavioral Accessibility Automation for what it can and cannot detect.

✅ No horizontal overflow detected at 320px width on any scanned page!

🔧 Most Common Issues (axe)

2 rules
201 Moderate axe Best Practice region: Ensures all page content is contained within landmark regions. Content outside landmarks cannot be found by screen reader users navigating by landmarks.
100 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: axe

Roles: Front-End Developer, UX Designer

Blocking: No

WCAG: Best Practice

Affected Pages

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-ae1dd8bf
<a data-module="govuk-skip-link" class="gem-c-skip-link govuk-skip-link govuk-!-display-none-print" href="#content" data-govuk-skip-link-init="" data-govuk-skip-link-module-started="true">Skip to main content</a>
XPath: .gem-c-skip-link
Example 2 View on Page
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-e2b69ac5
<h2 class="gem-c-feedback__prompt-question">Is this page useful?</h2>
XPath: .gem-c-feedback__prompt-question
Example 3 View on Page
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-ae1dd8bf
<a data-module="govuk-skip-link" class="gem-c-skip-link govuk-skip-link govuk-!-display-none-print" href="#content" data-govuk-skip-link-init="" data-govuk-skip-link-module-started="true">Skip to main content</a>
XPath: .gem-c-skip-link
Example 4 View on Page
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-e2b69ac5
<h2 class="gem-c-feedback__prompt-question">Is this page useful?</h2>
XPath: .gem-c-feedback__prompt-question
Example 5 View on Page
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-ae1dd8bf
<a data-module="govuk-skip-link" class="gem-c-skip-link govuk-skip-link govuk-!-display-none-print" href="#content" data-govuk-skip-link-init="" data-govuk-skip-link-module-started="true">Skip to main content</a>
XPath: .gem-c-skip-link

🔧 Most Common Issues (QualWeb)

4 rules
100 Moderate qualweb QW-ACT-R30: The complete visible text content of the test target neither matches or is contained within its accessible name.
100 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: qualweb

Roles: Front-End Developer

Blocking: No

Affected Pages

ACT alignment

  • ACT 2ee8b8 Open ACT rule

    No other scanned engines matched this ACT rule in the current report.

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
The complete visible text content of the test target neither matches or is contained within its accessible name.
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-8c18567b
Example 2 View on Page
The complete visible text content of the test target neither matches or is contained within its accessible name.
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-8c18567b
Example 3 View on Page
The complete visible text content of the test target neither matches or is contained within its accessible name.
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-8c18567b
Example 4 View on Page
The complete visible text content of the test target neither matches or is contained within its accessible name.
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-8c18567b
Example 5 View on Page
The complete visible text content of the test target neither matches or is contained within its accessible name.
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-8c18567b
100 Moderate qualweb QW-ACT-R76: Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.
100 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: qualweb

Roles: Front-End Developer

Blocking: No

Affected Pages

ACT alignment

  • ACT 09o5cg Open ACT rule

    No other scanned engines matched this ACT rule in the current report.

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-82fca3fc
Example 2 View on Page
Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-82fca3fc
Example 3 View on Page
Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-82fca3fc
Example 4 View on Page
Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-82fca3fc
Example 5 View on Page
Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-82fca3fc
1 Moderate qualweb QW-ACT-R12: The test target doesn't have an accessible name, or it's empty ('').
1 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: qualweb

Roles: Front-End Developer

Blocking: No

ACT alignment

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
The test target doesn't have an accessible name, or it's empty ('').
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-e1b456ec
1 Moderate qualweb QW-ACT-R37: Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.
1 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: qualweb

Roles: Front-End Developer

Blocking: No

Affected Pages

ACT alignment

  • ACT afw4f7 Open ACT rule

    No other scanned engines matched this ACT rule in the current report.

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
Element has contrast ratio lower than minimum.
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-01 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-45287c55