Accessibility Scan Report

Title: GOV.UK Issue: #58 Date: 8/22/2026, 3:17:10 AM Duration: 41.8m URLs: 100 / 100
Viewport: Desktop (1280×800) Color scheme: both Browser: chromium
🖥️ Forced Colors: 99 / 100 URLs

🔄 Changes Since Last Scan

868 New unique issues
2030 Not observed issues
🆕 New Issues (868)
✅ Not Observed in This Scan (2030)

These issues were previously tracked but were not detected in this scan. Absence is not proof of resolution — the page may not have loaded, the rule may not have run, or the element may have moved. Retest and verify before closing the tracked issue.

Replicate this scan

Reuse this scan context to reproduce the same viewport, color mode, and browser selection.

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 (6)
  • By Version (A & AA): WCAG 2.0 (7)
  • Engines used: AXE, AccessLint
  • By Finding Type: Known errors (7) & Best practices (199)
  • Manual testing needed: 19 axe incomplete findings
  • Total: 206 across 3 unique rules & 1 accessibility engine

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.
Enhanced accessibility for people with disabilities in urban areas: inception report. - GOV.UK 0 4
Adtech Market Research Report 2019 (ICO, Ofcom) - GOV.UK 0 4
Online market failures and harms: An economic perspective on the challenges and opportunities in regulating online services 2019 (OFCOM) - GOV.UK 0 4
Online Nation Report 2020 (OFCOM) - GOV.UK 0 4
The use of data by online services 2019 (OFCOM) - GOV.UK 0 4
Transparency in the Regulation of Online Safety: Research Report for Ofcom 2021 (OFCOM) - GOV.UK 0 4
Publication of DWP research report 707: Employment and Support Allowance: findings from a face-to-face survey of customers - GOV.UK 0 3
Find a registered childminder - GOV.UK 0 3
Getting an accessibility audit - Service Manual - GOV.UK 0 2
Testing for accessibility - Service Manual - GOV.UK 0 2

🧭 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)

3 rules
199 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.
99 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: 2026-08-22 🔑 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: 2026-08-22 🔑 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: 2026-08-22 🔑 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: 2026-08-22 🔑 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: 2026-08-22 🔑 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
6 Serious axe SC 1.4.3 AA Visual color-contrast: Ensures text and interactive elements have sufficient contrast ratio (4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text) against their background.
6 pages affected

Rule Information

Engine: axe

Roles: Visual Designer

Blocking: No

WCAG: SC 1.4.3 AA

Disabilities affected:
Visual

Affected Pages

Who Is Affected

  • Without Vision 1.0% — ~3,400,000 Americans
  • Limited Vision 2.4% — ~8,100,000 Americans
  • Without Perception of Color 4.3% — ~14,500,000 Americans

ACT alignment

  • ACT 09o5cg Open ACT rule

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

  • ACT afw4f7 Open ACT rule

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

Examples

Example 1 View on Page
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-22 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-aa5af652
<span class="govuk-details__summary-text" data-ga4-expandable=""> Show 4 more </span>
XPath: .govuk-details__summary-text
Example 2 View on Page
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-22 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-aa5af652
<span class="govuk-details__summary-text" data-ga4-expandable=""> Show 3 more </span>
XPath: .govuk-details__summary-text
Example 3 View on Page
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-22 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-aa5af652
<span class="govuk-details__summary-text" data-ga4-expandable=""> Show 11 more </span>
XPath: .govuk-details__summary-text
Example 4 View on Page
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-22 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-aa5af652
<span class="govuk-details__summary-text" data-ga4-expandable=""> Show 10 more </span>
XPath: .govuk-details__summary-text
Example 5 View on Page
Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds
Mode: light 🕑 First identified: 2026-08-22 🔑 Pattern ID: A11Y-aa5af652
<span class="govuk-details__summary-text" data-ga4-expandable=""> Show 7 more </span>
XPath: .govuk-details__summary-text