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Defect Reporting

The Accessibility Defect report spreadsheet is for capturing accessibility issues on a website or an application and providing the information needed to reproduce them and fix the issues. Each relevant WCAG criteria is tested and if any defect is found, it is added to the sheet. Reporting every issue in one place may help to identify patterns based on sorting by different columns. The Accessibility Defect report consists of many columns where the reporter needs to write exact information about how the defect was discovered.

On the following link, an example report can be seen:

Example A11y Defects

The Accessibility Defect report consists of many columns where the reporter needs to write exact information about how the defect was discovered.

Most of the columns can be found in a functional report as well, but the ones that differ are explained below:

Defect TypeTagsPrincipleWCAG LVLRecommendation NR
Accessibility2.4.7, AAOperableAA2.4.7
  1. Defect Type: It is used to indicate what type of defect the reporter is writing. It can be either “Accessibility” or “Functional”. In accessibility testing, sometimes functional defects are found and noted.
  2. Tags: It is used to identify the WCAG recommendation that the defect belongs to, along with the conformance level.
  3. Principle: It indicates the WCAG principle in which each recommendation falls under. There are four principles: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust.
  4. WCAG Level: It is used to represent the conformance level of the recommendation(A, AA or AAA).
  5. Recommendation NR: It identifies the main WCAG recommendation numeration for the defect report (There can be multiple numerations in Tags, but only the main one in Recommendation NR).