Accessibility quality gates for publishing decisions
Accessibility quality gates turn a completed scan into a decision your CMS or release pipeline can consume. Configure blocking severities, finding ceilings, a baseline scan, and manual acknowledgement while preserving the reasons beside the decision.
For platforms that need a governed allow, warn, or block step before publication
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- blocker · critical
- New only
- true
- Max major new
- 3
- Manual acknowledgement
- required
- Rules
- Severity · count · rule · new-only
- States
- Passed · failed · indeterminate · not configured
- Governance
- Suppression actor · reason · expiry
Express publishing policy as inspectable configuration.
The gate records why it reached a decision, so an editor or developer can recover without reverse-engineering a score.
- Blocking severities
- blocker, critical
- Finding ceilings
- Per severity or normalized rule
- Baseline mode
- All findings or newly introduced only
- Manual acknowledgement
- Optional workflow requirement
- Suppressions
- Actor, reason, and optional expiry
- Result
- Decision plus machine-readable reasons
Let each outcome travel to the owner who can decide it.
A useful gate does not force deterministic failures, partial signals, and human evaluation into the same pass/fail bucket.
Machine failure
- Threshold crossed
- Evidence attached
- Build reacts
Indeterminate work
- Partial coverage
- Owner assigned
- Release policy applies
Configured gate clear
- No new blockers
- Record retained
- Human work still visible
Choose the technical profile behind this capability.
A gate can act only on coverage the selected profile defines. Keep manual requirements and unsupported conditions outside automatic pass decisions.
Put the gate where content changes state.
The same result can drive a document upload, a web release, or an agency approval queue without changing the finding model.
- CMS
Hold an uploaded asset
Warn or block before a PDF or DOCX becomes public.
- CI/CD
Protect a release
Fail a check when newly introduced findings cross the project threshold.
- Agency
Route an exception
Record the owner, justification, expiry, and retained evidence.
Turn configured thresholds into inspectable publishing decisions.
Create a free project, choose a profile, and test a warning or blocking threshold against results your team can inspect.
Automated preflight is not an accessibility certification or legal determination.