This article provides information about the WCAG compliance levels that are available for the Optimize scan.
Compliance is shown for the following:
Page compliance = percentage of checks that the page is compliant in.
Domain compliance = Average page compliance in this domain.
The available choices are:
For information about the QualWeb criteria, visit the user guide article:
This section provides a short definition of each compliance level. Contact your legal department to find out the appropriate accessibility level. This ensures that the scan highlights the correct level of issues needed for your website to comply with regional requirements or areas of business.
| WCAG 2.0 (Level A): This is the minimum level of conformance. The web page satisfies all of the Level A Success Criteria, or a conforming alternate version is provided. | WCAG 2.1 (Level A): The same as WCAG 2.0 Level A, with more explanations and support material. | WCAG 2.2 (Level A): The lowest level of conformance and the easiest to achieve. It allows for websites to be broadly accessible as it addresses the most basic access issues. |
WCAG 2.0 (Level AA): The Web page satisfies all of the Level A and Level AA Success Criteria, or a Level AA conforming alternate version is provided. This check also encompasses Section 508. | WCAG 2.1 (Level AA): The same as WCAG 2.0 Level AA, with more explanations and support material. | WCAG 2.2 (Level AA): The most often used standard for legislation such as the Accessibility for Ontarians Act (AODA) and Section 508. |
| WCAG 2.0 (Level AAA): The Web page satisfies all of the Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA Success Criteria, or a Level AAA conforming alternate version is provided. | WCAG 2.1 (Level AAA): The same as WCAG 2.0 Level AAA, with more explanations and support material. | WCAG 2.2 (Level AAA): The highest level of conformance and the most difficult to achieve. It is not often used as a recommendation since it is not feasible for most websites to have the resources to meet this level. |
For information about the QualWeb criteria, visit the user guide article:
For more information about WCAG, visit the following external sites:
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