Access-o-Meter
A live accessibility score based on automated and manual tests.
Access-o-Meter displays your site's current accessibility results in the footer of every page. Behind the footer is a detailed report anyone can inspect. It combines automated page scans, hands-on manual checks, and a formal WCAG 2.2 / VPAT 2.5 Conformance Report signed off by your team.
The problem with accessibility statements
Most accessibility statements say "we take accessibility seriously" and stop there.
They rarely include dates or evidence, and visitors have no way of knowing whether the site actually works with a screen reader or keyboard until something fails.
That is an issue if you bid on work for government, education, or enterprise clients, where procurement teams ask for documentation. It is also an issue for disabled visitors, who are left guessing.
Access-o-Meter gives your team the tools to run daily checks, track manual improvements with a complete audit trail, and give visitors and procurement teams an honest, up-to-date look at where your site stands — complete with a direct line to report issues.
How it works
Access-o-Meter fixes this by replacing static promises with live data.
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Daily automated checks across the whole sitemap
Lighthouse runs automatically every day across your full sitemap, not just the homepage. If a check fails on a specific page, the report flags that exact URL. A broken run never overwrites your last verified result.
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Alerts only when something breaks
If a check fails on a page that previously passed, you receive an email naming the page and the issue. If nothing changes, you hear nothing.
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Manual testing by real people
Automated tools catch only about a third of WCAG issues. Everything else requires hands-on evaluation: tabbing through forms, running screen readers, zooming to 400%, and checking focus order. Evaluators record manual test results with dates and notes directly in Sanity Studio.
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A Conformance Report you approve
Each WCAG 2.2 criterion is evaluated and marked Supports, Partially Supports, or Does Not Support, formatted as a standard VPAT 2.5 report. Evaluators and reviewers edit notes directly on the report page, where each edit is logged in a revision history. The published report names the evaluators who worked on it.
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Re-reviews drafted automatically
When test evidence changes, a new draft of the Conformance Report is automatically prepared showing before-and-after states for each affected criterion. Reviewers can open a re-review directly from the report, but nothing goes live until approved.
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Built-in drift and overclaim protection
A report draft cannot claim Supports for a criterion whose linked check is failing. If a check fails after approval, the public report and all exports clearly state they are behind the latest test results until re-reviewed. When everything is current, the report confirms the date the evidence was verified.
Inside Access-o-Meter
What visitors see, and what your team manages
What visitors see
Two footer gauges
One for automated scans and one for manual checks, showing passes out of total tests and the date of the last run.
A public report at /accessibility
Visitors can search, filter, pin rows, read evaluator notes, or link directly to a specific check.
Remediation guidance (View Card)
Each check links out to a dedicated card on the A11Y Cheat Sheet explaining how to fix the issue.
Procurement-ready exports
Download the report as a VPAT-compatible PDF, JSON, or plain text for tender submissions and audit files.
Barrier reporting
Visitors can report an accessibility barrier directly through the report page.
Built to WCAG 2.2 AA
The interface works with screen readers, supports keyboard navigation, and includes a native read-aloud option.
Managing it
Manage your tests and reviews without running redeploys:
Run manual checks through Sanity Studio; the footer updates within a minute.
Start an on-demand automated run or open a re-review straight from the report page.
Multi-site management allows each site to maintain its own test runs, manual checks, and Conformance Report.
Full revision history logs every drafted change and approval.
We use it ourselves
The score in our own footer is real.
If some of our manual checks have not been tested yet, the gauge reflects that.
Who it is for
Teams that need to show their accessibility work.
- Teams bidding on public sector contracts
- Teams that have done the accessibility work
- Teams starting out
Point at a role to see how it contributes.