How CheckFox structures audits and what users can do with them.

What an audit is

An audit is one assessment of a digital service against one referential. It groups samples, criteria, findings, an accessibility statement, and reports.

Lifecycle

Created - name, description, referential, scope, coverage and evaluation method chosen.
Samples added - pages or screens to evaluate.
Criteria evaluated - each applicable criterion is reviewed on each sample.
Findings recorded - verdicts, problem descriptions, fix suggestions, screenshots.
Statement generated - accessibility statement built from findings.
Report exported - final deliverable.

An audit can be reopened, re-audited, or archived after completion.

Audit settings

Name and description
Referential (RAWeb 1.1, RGAA 4.1.2, WCAG 2.2, RAAM 1.1, RAPDF 1.1, or a custom guideline). See methodology / referentials overview.
Coverage: full, or one of the reduced profiles the referential offers.
Report language. See procedures / export a report.
Accessibility Statement information: Country and Responsible body, used for generating your statement accurately. See procedures / create a statement
Project management: Urgency level, due date, ticketing tool.

Audit coverage

RGAA and RAWeb publish official reduced criteria sets, and CheckFox offers them as a coverage choice when the audit is created:

RGAA - audit rapide (25 criteria) and audit complémentaire (50 criteria, a superset of the quick set).
RAWeb - contrôle simplifié (47 criteria).

A reduced audit checks fewer criteria and is meant to surface non-conformities quickly. It is not a conformance audit and must not be used to back a conformance statement. Every other referential is full-coverage only.

Coverage can be raised later (quick to complementary, or either to full) and the existing findings are kept. It cannot be narrowed.

Audit folders

Audits can be organized into folders within a workspace. Useful when an agency or in-house team is auditing multiple clients or product lines.

In My Audits, create a folder: The New Folder button in My Audits view.

Set up your folder: New folder modal to pick name, description, a color, and an icon among thousands available.

And you get your browsable folder: The new folder card created.

Audit versioning

Available on the Enterprise plan. Lets the auditor snapshot an audit at a point in time and continue iterating without losing the snapshot's state. Useful for re-audits. Reduced audits cannot be versioned: widen the coverage to full first.

In an audit, next to the samples tab, the tab named "Versions" allows to create new audit versions, and to see affiliation.

Adding a version is like duplicating an audit, but gives it a direct affiliation link.

Where it lives in the UI

Operations > My Audits - list view.
Audit page tabs: Samples, Versions, Reports, Statements.
Audit settings accessible from the audit's overflow menu.

Possible actions with audit

Duplicate audits

It copies all the content of an audit including: findings, notes, images references.

The action popover open over an audit card when clicking the 3 dots icon "more actions", in the My Audits section. The popover show, among other options, the "Duplicate" action.

Move or Copy an audit

Moves or Copy (duplicate) the audit to a different workspace or folder of your choice, where you are owner or moderator.

Step 1 of the Move or Copy action. The action popover open over an audit card when clicking the 3 dots icon "more actions", in the My Audits section. The popover show, among other options, the "Move or copy" action. Step 2 of Move or Copy Audit action. The popup opening after hitting the Move or Copy command. Pick Copy or Move, select a workspace, and if a folder exists select a folder, or create it on the fly.