Review Method
Accessibility review needs a target, a test path, and evidence.
The goal is a remediation path a product team can understand, estimate, implement, and retest without treating accessibility as a one-time scan report.
Manual review path
- Keyboard-only operation, focus order, and visible focus
- Accessible names, descriptions, headings, landmarks, and reading order
- Screen reader spot checks for form flow, dynamic updates, and complex widgets
- Zoom, reflow, contrast, reduced motion, and forced-colors behavior
Finding format
- Severity, affected users, and affected WCAG criterion
- Reproduction path, expected behavior, and observed behavior
- Code-level remediation guidance and acceptance criteria
- Retest status and evidence captured after remediation
Tooling boundary
Automated checks help catch regressions and obvious failures, but they do not determine accessibility by themselves. Human review remains part of the acceptance path for semantics, interaction behavior, and user impact.
Deliverables
The output should support implementation, not just reporting.
Findings are useful only when the affected workflow, acceptance path, and retest expectation are clear.
Baseline and scope
Target standard, tested workflows, browsers, assistive technology spot checks, and explicit out-of-scope areas.
Findings backlog
Prioritized issues with reproduction steps, user impact, affected criteria, implementation guidance, and acceptance criteria.
Remediation support
Code-level guidance for component patterns, forms, focus behavior, dynamic state, contrast, and semantic structure.
Retest evidence
Verification notes after remediation so the team can distinguish fixed, deferred, and newly discovered work.