GovA11y is an open-source accessibility monitoring tool that enables government agencies to quickly and cost-effectively enhance digital accessibility. It provides a one-stop-shop for comparing accessibility metrics across government domains and entities beyond the minimum requirements.

Accessibility compliance is a critical component of digital transformation for government agencies. However, ensuring compliance can be time-consuming and expensive. GovA11y addresses this challenge by providing a fast and cost-effective way to monitor and enhance accessibility.

GovA11y offers a range of capabilities that make it a powerful tool for government agencies. Here are some of its key features:

• Integrates axe-core, WCAG 2.1, Section 508, Vera PDF, A11yWatch, Drupal, URLBOX, WordPress, XML-Sitemaps.com, Pantheon
• Provides tech specifications similar to BuiltWith
• Monitors website uptime and page load times
• Generates high-speed results
• Discovers more than 7,500 pages per second
• Performs 650 axe scans per minute
• Gives priority to critical errors
• Integrates with commonly used project management tools such as Atlassian JIRA
• Provides a one-stop-shop for comparing accessibility metrics across government domains and entities beyond the minimum requirements
• Provides a government-specific analysis focused on improving quality and speed to fix, optimizing compliance
• Enables developers to test internal resources safely and without risk of unauthorized access
• Operates within government firewalls and proxies
• Supports modular architecture, allowing us to leverage the best open source tools like Postgres, Google Lighthouse, Grafana, and axe-core.
• GovA11y's roadmap includes the implementation of machine learning, providing accessible summaries of graphs and charts used in the report, tracking accessibility problems in upstream libraries, identifying improper implementation and usage of USWDS components, and generating error-specific code improvements based on error or issue detected.

Overall, GovA11y is a valuable tool for government agencies looking to quickly and cost-effectively enhance their digital accessibility compliance.

We welcome contributions to GovA11y! Here are some ways you can get involved:

If you encounter a bug or have a feature request, please open an issue in our GitHub repository. When reporting an issue, please provide as much detail as possible to help us reproduce the problem.

If you're interested in contributing code, please see our contribution guidelines for instructions on how to get started. We welcome contributions of all types, from small bug fixes to major feature enhancements.

If you're fluent in a language other than English, we welcome contributions to translate GovA11y into other languages. Please see our translation guidelines for more information.

We welcome feedback on how we can improve GovA11y. If you have any suggestions or ideas, please open an issue in our GitHub repository or email us at [email protected].

We look forward to your contributions!

GovA11y is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0).

This means that you are free to use, copy, distribute, and modify the software, as long as any modifications or derivative works you create are also licensed under the GPL-3.0. Additionally, any distribution of the software or its derivatives must include the source code and license information.

For more information about the terms and conditions of the GPL-3.0 license, please see the full text of the license.