Technical preflight contributes
- Repeatable findings from supported pages and documents
- WCAG 2.2 mappings and format-native evidence
- Regression history and remediation status
- A queue of conditions requiring manual evaluation
UK Equality Act digital accessibility preflight
Find technical barriers in a digital service declared to operate in an Equality Act context in England, Scotland, or Wales. The profile organizes evidence for service-access review; it cannot decide disability, substantial disadvantage, reasonableness, or legal conformity.
Scanning profile
uk-equality-act-digital-contextUK Equality ActTechnical preflight
- Input
- Service URL, HTML, PDF, or DOCX
- Mapping
- Equality Act 2010 service context · WCAG 2.2 evidence
- Boundary
- Barrier evidence, not a reasonable-adjustment decision
ContextCustomer-declared service provider
Technical evidenceSelected WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA conditions
Human judgmentDisadvantage, adjustments, alternatives, and impact
Use UK Equality Act through the API.
Send uk-equality-act-digital-context with the asset and keep this profile’s evidence boundary in the returned result.
Treat a WCAG result as technical evidence for legal review.
Technical findings can reveal barriers and support prioritization. Equality Act questions depend on people, circumstances, the complete service, and the adjustments actually available.
Service review determines
- How a person is placed at a substantial disadvantage
- Which anticipatory or individual adjustments are reasonable
- Whether alternatives provide effective access in practice
- The wider legal position for the service provider
Follow a barrier beyond the component where it was detected.
A source issue matters because of its effect on a person completing a service. Preserve both the technical observation and the operational path to an adjustment.
Digital service access recordCondition Impact Adjustment
Observed technical barrier
Record the asset, state, location, requirement mapping, confidence, and reproducible evidence.
Effect on a complete task
A reviewer evaluates affected users, frequency, severity, workarounds, and downstream consequences.
Remediation or effective alternative
Assign an owner, validate with users, and retain the decision and outcome outside the scan verdict.
Send each part of the barrier record to the owner who can act.
The profile separates repairable technical observations from service impact and reasonable-adjustment decisions instead of forcing them into one score.
Repair
Engineering condition
- Source evidence
- WCAG mapping
- Regression status
Assess
Service disadvantage
- Affected path
- User impact
- Existing alternatives
Validate
Adjustment outcome
- Named owner
- User validation
- Decision record
Read the source behind this profile.
The UK Equality Act source and its legal or standards context can change. AccessPreflight pins the profile version used for a scan; your organization should re-review applicability and the source when requirements change.
Run UK Equality Act where content enters the workflow.
Keep the profile, coverage boundary, evidence, and human-review queue attached to every result.
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Automated preflight is not an accessibility certification or legal determination.