What CheckFox is, who uses it, and the main concepts an auditor works with.

What CheckFox is

CheckFox is a web application for conducting digital accessibility audits. It supports manual audit workflows against several referentials, including RAWeb 1.1, RGAA 4.1.2, WCAG 2.2, RAAM 1.1 for mobile applications and RAPDF 1.1 for PDF documents, and it can run automated scans to speed the manual work up.

Who uses it

• Accessibility auditors (independent or in-house) producing conformance audits.
• Designers and developers checking their own work before release.
• Compliance officers at organizations subject to EU or Luxembourg accessibility law.

Core concepts

• Workspace - the top-level container. Holds audits, members, billing.
• Audit - one assessment of a digital service against one referential.
• Sample - one thing evaluated in the audit: a page, a component, a PDF, a mobile screen.
• Criterion - a single accessibility rule from the chosen referential.
• Finding - the result of evaluating one criterion on one sample.
• Journey - a map of a user experience across phases and touchpoints, linking the audits that cover them.
• Accessibility statement - the legal document declaring conformance.
• Accessibility plan - the multi-year plan and its annual action plans a public body must publish.
• Report - the auditor's deliverable summarizing the audit.

Typical workflow

1. Create or join a workspace.
2. Create an audit, pick a referential and a coverage.
3. Add samples (the pages, components or documents to evaluate).
4. Optionally map journeys.
5. Evaluate each criterion on each sample, recording findings.
6. Generate the accessibility statement from the findings.
7. Generate and export the report.

Where to start in the UI

• Operations > My Audits - the audits in the current workspace.
• Operations > Journeys and Operations > Accessibility plans - the other two document surfaces.
• Management > My Workspaces - switch or create workspaces.
• Top right > User menu - settings, billing, sign out.