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	Web Accessibility Evaluation	Accessibility Audit
क्षेत्र	Disability Studies	Disability Studies
परिवार	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
उद्भव वर्ष	2008	2001
प्रवर्तक	Ben Caldwell, Michael Cooper, Loretta Guarino Reid & Gregg Vanderheiden (W3C WCAG Working Group)	Center for Universal Design (Story, Mueller & Mace); WHO ICF environmental-factors framework
प्रकार	Conformance-assessment pipeline for digital accessibility	Barrier-survey and remediation-prioritization pipeline
मौलिक स्रोत	Caldwell, B., Cooper, M., Reid, L. G., & Vanderheiden, G. (2008). Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. W3C Recommendation.	Story, M. F., Mueller, J. L., & Mace, R. L. (1998). The Universal Design File: Designing for People of All Ages and Abilities. Raleigh, NC: Center for Universal Design, NC State University.
उपनाम	WCAG Conformance Evaluation, Digital Accessibility Assessment, Web Content Accessibility Review, POUR Conformance Audit	Built-Environment Access Audit, Barrier Survey, Access Compliance Audit, Physical Accessibility Inspection
संबंधित	2	2
सारांश	Web accessibility evaluation assesses how well digital content conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines so that it can be used by people with a wide range of disabilities. WCAG 2.0, published as a W3C Recommendation in 2008 by Caldwell, Cooper, Reid, and Vanderheiden, organizes requirements under four principles—content must be Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust (POUR)—each broken into testable success criteria graded at conformance levels A, AA, and AAA. A rigorous evaluation combines three complementary methods: automated tools that scan for machine-detectable issues, manual expert inspection against the success criteria, and testing with assistive technologies such as screen readers and keyboard-only navigation. The evaluation determines whether the content satisfies all success criteria up to a target level and yields a conformance claim. Because no single method catches every barrier, the strength of the assessment lies in layering all three.	An accessibility audit is a systematic survey of a built environment that measures its features against accessibility standards or codes to identify, classify, and prioritize barriers facing disabled people. The auditor inspects elements along the chain of use—approach and parking, the entrance, internal circulation, sanitary facilities, signage, and controls—taking concrete measurements such as door clear widths, ramp gradients, and reach ranges. These measurements are checked against the criteria in the governing standard, and any element that falls outside the required range is recorded as a barrier. Barriers are then classified by severity and turned into a ranked remediation plan. Framed by the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, the audit treats the physical environment as an environmental factor that can either enable participation or, when it imposes barriers, produce disability.