Votinova — Accessibility Conformance Report (PARTICIPANT role)

Format: VPAT® 2.5 (WCAG edition) · Report version: draft · Report date: 2026-08-19

Product: Votinova · Product version: 0.1.0-draft · Evaluation dates: 2026-07-31 – 2026-08-19

Scope: the /join web participant experience and the iOS/Android participant app.

Conformance target: WCAG 2.2 Level A and Level AA.

Evaluation methods: automated audit (axe-core via Playwright, cumulative WCAG 2.2 AA rule tags); keyboard, focus-order, live-region and reduced-motion interaction walkthroughs (Playwright specs); and manual review of the rated surfaces' DOM and components. No rating is asserted without a recorded measurement (FR-003). A full assistive-technology user walkthrough (screen reader) is scheduled before first publication and will upgrade the interaction-heavy "manual" evidence to "at-walkthrough"; until then those rows are honestly marked as reviewed by inspection.

Measurement basis (automated rows): 11 of the 55 criteria in this report are rated from an automated axe-core run. Those rows rest on exactly the surface sample recorded in the evidence log: axe:participant/16types×13answer+13results-anatomies+7states(entry,denied,waiting,hidden,paused,disconnected,plan-limit). Until 2026-07-28 the sample behind every automated row was the /join join → active question → results path driven with a SINGLE MULTIPLE_CHOICE question: 1 of the catalogue's 16 question types, and no state outside the happy path (no empty, closed, denied, plan-limited or disconnected screen). The evaluation harness now drives all 16 types across their 13 distinct answer anatomies and 13 distinct results anatomies, plus 7 states.

Summary: 43 Supports · 1 Partially Supports · 11 Not Applicable · 0 Does Not Support (of 55 criteria).

Notes: timed live questions rely on WCAG's real-time event exception (Conformance Requirement 5); the affected timing criteria state this in their remarks. Brand orange (#FF6200) is a conscious, documented deviation on 1.4.3 (FR-013).

Corrections (in place, no rating changed): 2026-07-28 — Added the "Measurement basis" paragraph disclosing the surface sample behind the automated rows, which the report had never stated. No rating, remark or summary count changed. 2026-07-29 — T062 (H-017-11): the brand-contrast gate exception narrowed to NEUTRAL near-white surfaces only (channel spread <= 4) - tinted surfaces are no longer swept. Two real defects the old carve-out hid were remediated the same day: the sidebar active pill (orange on its own 12% tint, 2.61:1) now uses the neutral system surface, and the API-credential dismiss button (2.67:1 over the tinted panel) gained its own white background. The 1.4.3 brand deviation remains orange on WHITE/NEUTRAL only, as originally accepted. 2026-07-31 — Re-evaluation after the 2026-07-31 rebrand: the primary colour moved to blue #0071E3 across public and presenter surfaces (indigo-* ramp override). Evidence was re-collected the same day; brand text on tinted/soft surfaces now uses the 700 step (#005CBA) and accent-on-tint tokens the emphasis mix, so the ratios that the colour change had pushed under 4.5:1 measure compliant again. Report date advanced to the new evaluation end. 2026-08-07 — Re-measured 2026-08-07 after the harness cure (T156): the cookie-consent banner intercepted pointer events across the suite and the 2026-08 tariff moved the FREE participant cap, so the automated campaign re-ran end to end. The plan-limit join screen is now reached by filling to the API refusal instead of a hard-coded cap. No rating, remark or summary count changed; the evaluation period extends to 2026-08-07. 2026-08-19 — Re-measured 2026-08-19: the automated campaign re-ran end to end against develop after the spec 042 design-engine work. No rating, remark or summary count changed — only the measurement dates of the thirteen automated criteria; the evaluation period extends to 2026-08-19 and the report date advances with it.

Table 1 — Success Criteria, Level A

Table 2 — Success Criteria, Level AA

Generated from `acr/evidence/participant-draft.json` (spec 017 T028/T029). Re-issue via `acr:build` after bumping `acr/PUBLICATION.json` (see RE-ISSUE.md).