Product
WCAG 2.2 Accessibility & Web Performance Roadmap (NZ)
Technical assessment and roadmap to align digital platforms with inclusion benchmarks
Our Web Assessment is an independent technical review for public sector platforms and local councils. We audit your frontend code and architecture against WCAG 2.2 Level AA guidelines and Core Web Vitals. Instead of confusing automated scores, you receive an executive health report and a practical engineering roadmap to systematically resolve accessibility and performance barriers.
Features
Deliverables & Impact
Independent WCAG 2.2 Validation
Rigorous, evidence-based testing benchmarked against the NZ Government Web Accessibility Standard 1.2. This compliance audit satisfies the public sector requirement for an authoritative, independent Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) snapshot, providing immediate verification for risk management and internal sign-offs.
Interactive Accessibility Roadmap
Discovered defects are compiled into a prioritized, developer-focused engineering queue. Classified by engineering severity and customer footprint, this backlog integrates directly into your project management pipeline to serve as your council's official Accessibility Roadmap for ongoing platform maintenance.
Multi-Tiered Quality Assurance Baseline
Our diagnostic pipeline models the exact QA processes expected by the NZ Government Digital Procurement Checklist. We combine programmatic code analysis via automated scanning suites with rigorous, human-driven manual inspection to isolate systemic flaws across complex templates, workflows, and document portals.
Assistive Technology & Inclusive Testing Matrix
We evaluate your digital touchpoints using a matrix of native assistive environments. Our manual evaluation replicates true user experiences, validating keyboard-only navigation pathways, focus-state responsiveness, and desktop/mobile screen reader testing (NVDA, JAWS, and VoiceOver) to catch the critical barriers automation misses.
Comprehensive 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 unoptimized code to boost load speeds for residents in low-connectivity areas.
Executive & Technical Reporting
A dual-layer output providing a high-level strategic overview for council leadership and 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 council to transparently communicate current accessibility milestones, list known legacy constraints (such as PDFs or complex maps), and provide a direct digital feedback channel for residents with disabilities.
Use Cases
Technical Scenarios &
Implementations
Transitioning Public Portals to WCAG 2.2 Compliance
We validate your public-facing channels—including consultation hubs, news portals, and library systems—against official WCAG 2.2 Level AA guidelines. This independent assessment maps out hidden structural barriers, reduces regulatory risks, and ensures all residents can access critical council information equitably.
Optimising Interactive Digital Services and Online Forms
Online rates payments, building consents, and GIS mapping tools often rely on complex frontend scripts that fail for screen readers or stall on slower mobile connections. We profile client-side execution and asset loading to give your engineering team precise, production-ready fixes that improve usability without disrupting service delivery.
Benchmarking Technical Debt Prior to System Re-Platforms
Before committing public funding to a major CMS upgrade or regional digital transformation, you need an objective read on platform health. We analyse your current architecture, code quality, and deployment configurations to establish a clear technical debt baseline, ensuring future budgets target verified priorities.
Independent Conformance Validation for Council Audits and Procurement
Proving digital compliance to central government, internal auditors, or leadership requires trusted, third-party validation. We deliver executive-ready health scores, severity ratings, and explicit code impacts that give procurement officers and council boards total confidence to sign off on compliance.
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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