Product
AS EN 301 549 Accessibility & Web Performance Roadmap (AU)
Technical assessment and roadmap to align digital platforms with inclusion benchmarks
Our Web Assessment offers independent technical reviews for local, state, and Federal platforms. We audit frontend code, transactions, and architecture against AS EN 301 549 and Core Web Vitals. Instead of generic scores, you receive an executive health report and a practical engineering roadmap to eliminate accessibility and performance barriers.
Features
Deliverables & Impact
Certified Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR)
Rigorous, evidence-based testing benchmarked directly against WCAG 2.2 AA and AS EN 301 549 specifications. This satisfies federal, state, and local government mandates for a recent, authoritative Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR), providing your risk management, legal, and procurement panels with immediate, vetted proof.
Interactive Accessibility Roadmap
Discovered defects are compiled into a prioritized, developer-focused engineering queue. This satisfies the strict government requirements for a formal Accessibility Roadmap, clearly outlining the impact of existing barriers, concrete timelines for technical remediation, and safe intermediary plans for alternative public access.
Multi-Tiered QA Verification & System Testing
Our diagnostics pipeline mirrors public sector procurement checklists by combining automated programmatic code scans with rigorous human validation. We parse source code at scale to catch systemic, multi-page defects while validating rendering integrity across a cross-browser matrix.
Assistive Technology & Inclusive Testing Matrix
To verify true functional performance, we analyze core user pathways using native assistive environments. Our testing protocols validate keyboard-only navigation pathways, focus indicators, and screen reader interactions (including NVDA, JAWS, and VoiceOver) to catch the critical barriers automation misses.
Core Web Vitals & Platform Health Audit
A deep-dive across your site’s frontend architecture, Core Web Vitals, and asset configuration to ensure equitable performance on all devices. We target heavy client-side scripts and unoptimised code to boost load speeds for regional and mobile-first citizens.
Executive & Technical Reporting
A dual-layer output providing a high-level strategic overview for executive directors, ministers, and council boards, backed by absolute, evidence-driven code locations and line-by-line defect mappings for your developers.
Digital Accessibility Statement Hub
An elegant, compliant footer module that connects your platform directly to a live, public-facing compliance summary. This feature allows your agency to transparently communicate current accessibility milestones, list known legacy constraints (such as PDFs or complex maps), and provide an explicit, direct digital feedback loop for citizens with disabilities.
Use Cases
Technical Scenarios &
Implementations
Public Sector Digital Accessibility & Policy Compliance
With strict legal mandates under the Australian Disability Discrimination Act, public channels—including council consultation spaces, portals, and service assets—must maintain universal access. We conduct independent, third-party validation to mitigate legal exposure, fulfil agency obligations, and ensure all community demographics experience equitable digital interactions.
Optimising Complex Transactional Flows & Interactive GIS Tools
High-traffic civic operations like online planning consents, transactional portals, and asset mapping features often feature client-side rendering elements that break for screen readers or isolate users on slower network connections. We profile heavy script execution and design defects to issue production-ready code recommendations that improve transactional velocity without breaking critical backend systems.
Procurement Due Diligence and Vendor Benchmarking
Before allocating capital toward major platform transformations or signing off on off-the-shelf SaaS procurement, teams need absolute structural clarity. We inspect target software and codebases to deliver an independent technical debt and compliance baseline, protecting public funds and vetting external vendor capabilities prior to deployment.
Inclusive Validation for Non-HTML Documents and Assets
Public platforms manage large volumes of legacy, non-HTML content—including council agendas, structural PDF briefs, and multi-media advisories—that represent a massive vector for compliance failures. We audit asset trees, alternative text setups, and document configurations to shield your agency from exclusion risks across your complete digital library.
Process
Delivery Roadmap
Full platform evaluation
Comprehensive scoping and assessment conducted across your critical templates, primary user journeys, and core entry pages.
Automated and manual diagnostics
Deployment of specialised, industry-standard auditing tools paired with direct, human-driven verification—including screen readers and keyboard-only pathways—to isolate systemic performance and accessibility defects.
Defect prioritisation and reporting
Compilation of a structured ledger classifying every discovered issue by engineering severity, customer impact, and the underlying code footprint.
Actionable remediation guidance
Provision of precise, developer-focused code recommendations and clear engineering steps required to resolve each identified bottleneck efficiently.
Technical walkthrough and review
Delivery of a dedicated session with your engineering or product team to review the core findings, interpret technical logs, and clarify the necessary remediation steps.
Predictable & Transparent Plans
Free
A performance & accessibility taster
- Discovery • One 1-hour call
- Sample finding • One representative finding from a key page
Starter
A focused audit of a single site or product
- Coverage • One site or product, core templates and primary user journeys
- Method depth • Automated scans + targeted manual interaction testing
- Deliverable • Prioritised report with health scores, severity ratings, and remediation guidance
- Walkthrough • A session with your engineering team to review the findings
Business
A deeper audit with full WCAG 2.2 AA conformance evidence
- Coverage • Multiple sites or a deeper page set, multi-template, multi-journey
- Method depth • Full automated + deep manual interaction testing (screen reader, keyboard, responsive states)
- Deliverable • Full WCAG 2.2 AA conformance evidence + prioritised remediation queue
- Walkthrough • Engineering walkthrough + an executive briefing for stakeholders
FAQs
Common Questions
Do you rely exclusively on automated auditing tools?
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No. Automated diagnostics typically detect only a portion of total technical and accessibility defects. We combine programmatic sweeps with strict manual validation — including human screen-reader and keyboard interaction testing — for an accurate, complete assessment.
Will this report get our platform to WCAG 2.2 AA compliance?
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The evaluation is benchmarked directly against WCAG 2.2 AA criteria, and the report sets out exactly where your codebase meets or falls short, with a clear path to compliance. The audit identifies the gaps precisely; closing them is the remediation work that follows.
Does this service include implementing the fixes in our codebase?
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No — this engagement is deep diagnostics, measurement, and prioritisation. We can take on remediation as a separate follow-up engineering sprint to execute the recommended changes directly in your repositories, but the audit itself is fixed-scope and independent.
How is this different from running free automated testing tools internally?
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Free tools give you raw scores without context or manual verification. We interpret those metrics, isolate false positives, run deep manual interaction testing, and translate the data into a prioritised engineering queue mapped to business outcomes.
What do we actually walk away with?
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An evidence-based report with health scores and severity ratings, a defect ledger mapped to the specific affected code, developer-focused remediation guidance, and a walkthrough session so your team understands the reasoning behind each recommendation.
Tech Stack
Proof
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