Accessibility Test Cases

A11Y-QC-001

Reviewer capability and conflict check

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MethodQuality-control review
TesterAccessibility quality lead
Indicative effort125–181 min small scope

Checks accessibility programme quality control for reviewer capability and conflict check.

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Purpose

What this test checks

Checks accessibility programme quality control for reviewer capability and conflict check.

What this result means: This procedure determines whether Reviewer capability and conflict check meets its stated expectations for the recorded targets and accessibility-quality-control. Unexecuted targets, states and environments remain outside that result.

Why it matters

Checks accessibility programme quality control for reviewer capability and conflict check. People most likely affected: people affected by assessment decisions whose reliability depends on competent and consistent reviewer practice. Uncontrolled methods, conflicts or disagreement can make assessment conclusions unreliable. In the recorded accessibility-quality-control environment, use frozen fixtures, independent scoring and documented reconciliation; unresolved assessor disagreement can turn the same evidence into inconsistent client findings.

When to use it

Apply Reviewer capability and conflict check when the frozen procedure, evidence set, assigned roles and quality threshold. The selected focus is Reviewer capability and conflict check.

Confirm before starting

Mark it not applicable only when

Exceptions

This platform, journey, usability or quality procedure creates no additional normative exception. Apply exceptions only in the linked atomic or criterion-level conformance procedure and preserve that separate decision.

Prepare

What you need

  • The product area and test targets are agreed before testing starts.
  • The operating system, browser, viewport and input method are recorded.
  • Test data is safe to use and does not expose unnecessary personal information.

Targets and required variations

  • The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check.
  • Default, revealed, loading, empty, validation error, interruption, recovery and confirmation where meaningful.
  • Every required environment, viewport, orientation, language and authenticated state recorded in the frozen scope.

Clean state

  • Complete a known-good calibration in the same environment before product testing.
  • Start from a recorded clean or known state and preserve any prior preferences, extensions, cache or profile settings that can affect output.

Effort estimate

Setup
30 min
Per target
45 min
Evidence
20 min
Technical review
30 min

Assumptions: one frozen review set and one reviewer pair; disagreements, adjudication and reruns are additional effort

Variation: Add a new per-target execution and evidence allowance for each additional target class or state that could produce a different result. Add setup time for each distinct environment.

Excluded: Client coordination, inaccessible-environment recovery, recruitment, legal review, remediation implementation and waiting time unless the procedure states otherwise.

Execute

Test steps

Follow each action in order. The expected result is always visible; open the guidance when you need setup, tool, evidence, decision or repeat details. Step-level recording is optional while work is in progress and required only to export a completed execution.

Step 1

Prepare the scope, target and environment

Purpose: For Reviewer capability and conflict check, prepare the named scenario: Prepare the scope, target and environment. Target: The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check. The preparation must establish this result: The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup.

User impact: Uncontrolled methods, conflicts or disagreement can make assessment conclusions unreliable. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Prepare the scope, target and environment.

Before executing Reviewer capability and conflict check, freeze the product version and scope. Inventory each applicable target, select the required starting states, prepare safe test data and record every required environment value. Complete any named known-good calibration before attributing an observation to the product.

Expected result

The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup.

Failure observation

During Reviewer capability and conflict check, the target, starting state, environment or scope record remains ambiguous for the scenario named Prepare the scope, target and environment. The preparation result cannot be demonstrated: The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup.

Setup, evidence and decision guidance
Target
The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check.
Required state
For Reviewer capability and conflict check, the product version and scope are frozen; every selected target and material starting state is uniquely identified.
Tool or command
Use the scope record and worksheet environment fields for Reviewer capability and conflict check: catalogue_version, review_protocol, review_protocol_version, calibration_set, calibration_set_version, evidence_set_reference, reviewer_count.
Record
Scope/version reference; target inventory; starting states; safe-data reference; every required environment value; calibration result or reason it is not required.
Pass
Record passed for the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Prepare the scope, target and environment only when the evidence (Scope/version reference; target inventory; starting states; safe-data reference; every required environment value; calibration result or reason it is not required.) supports: The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup.
Fail
Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: During Reviewer capability and conflict check, the target, starting state, environment or scope record remains ambiguous for the scenario named Prepare the scope, target and environment. The preparation result cannot be demonstrated: The selected targets, states, test data, environment and any scope limitations are complete enough for another qualified tester to reproduce the setup.
Not applicable
The governed assessment has no quality-control activity relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check; record why the control is not required.
Blocked
Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Repeat or recover
For Reviewer capability and conflict check, correct the setup gap, preserve the original blocked record and start a new execution observation before proceeding.
Limitations
This scenario records the action named Prepare the scope, target and environment for Reviewer capability and conflict check in accessibility-quality-control. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.
If you are new to this test
For Reviewer capability and conflict check, do not begin from an undocumented browser tab, document copy, device state, participant plan or evidence set. Record the exact item you will test first.
Record this step

Step 2

Freeze versions, sample, metric, threshold, agent identities and conflicts before quality-control execution

Purpose: For Reviewer capability and conflict check, execute the named scenario: Freeze versions, sample, metric, threshold, agent identities and conflicts before quality-control execution. Target: The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check. Compare the observation with this result: The control cannot be tuned after results are known and is reproducible.

User impact: Uncontrolled methods, conflicts or disagreement can make assessment conclusions unreliable. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Freeze versions, sample, metric, threshold, agent identities and conflicts before quality-control execution.

Freeze versions, sample, metric, threshold, agent identities and conflicts before quality-control execution.

Expected result

The control cannot be tuned after results are known and is reproducible.

Failure observation

After the tester completes the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Freeze versions, sample, metric, threshold, agent identities and conflicts before quality-control execution, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: The control cannot be tuned after results are known and is reproducible.

Setup, evidence and decision guidance
Target
The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check.
Required state
For Reviewer capability and conflict check, begin in the recorded default state for the selected Reviewer capability and conflict check target before this action; preserve the exact content, account, platform and configuration used.
Tool or command
In accessibility-quality-control, Use the immutable calibration set, independent score sheets, predeclared threshold and versioned calculation or reconciliation log named by the quality-control plan.
Record
Procedure, catalogue, fixture/sample, assigned roles, conflicts, metric and threshold versions.
Pass
Record passed for the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Freeze versions, sample, metric, threshold, agent identities and conflicts before quality-control execution only when the evidence (Procedure, catalogue, fixture/sample, assigned roles, conflicts, metric and threshold versions.) supports: The control cannot be tuned after results are known and is reproducible.
Fail
Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Freeze versions, sample, metric, threshold, agent identities and conflicts before quality-control execution, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: The control cannot be tuned after results are known and is reproducible.
Not applicable
The governed assessment has no quality-control activity relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check; record why the control is not required.
Blocked
Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Repeat or recover
Repeat this action for every required variation of Reviewer capability and conflict check and after a material target, content, state, environment or configuration change. Preserve the original observation.
Limitations
This scenario records the action named Freeze versions, sample, metric, threshold, agent identities and conflicts before quality-control execution for Reviewer capability and conflict check in accessibility-quality-control. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.
If you are new to this test
For Reviewer capability and conflict check: Keep assessors' initial decisions independent. Reconcile only after scores are frozen, and preserve both the disagreement and its resolution.
Record this step

Step 3

Record reviewer identity, method competence, available platform support, role separation and declared conflicts for every assigned execution and review role

Purpose: For Reviewer capability and conflict check, execute the named scenario: Record reviewer identity, method competence, available platform support, role separation and declared conflicts for every assigned execution and review role. Target: The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check. Compare the observation with this result: Every procedure has a competent executor and a distinct quality reviewer; conflicts or capability gaps are mitigated and recorded.

User impact: Uncontrolled methods, conflicts or disagreement can make assessment conclusions unreliable. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Record reviewer identity, method competence, available platform support, role separation and declared conflicts for every assigned execution and review role.

Record reviewer identity, method competence, available platform support, role separation and declared conflicts for every assigned execution and review role.

Expected result

Every procedure has a competent executor and a distinct quality reviewer; conflicts or capability gaps are mitigated and recorded.

Failure observation

After the tester completes the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Record reviewer identity, method competence, available platform support, role separation and declared conflicts for every assigned execution and review role, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Every procedure has a competent executor and a distinct quality reviewer; conflicts or capability gaps are mitigated and recorded.

Setup, evidence and decision guidance
Target
The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check.
Required state
For Reviewer capability and conflict check, begin in the recorded default state for the selected Reviewer capability and conflict check target before this action; preserve the exact content, account, platform and configuration used.
Tool or command
In accessibility-quality-control, Use the immutable calibration set, independent score sheets, predeclared threshold and versioned calculation or reconciliation log named by the quality-control plan.
Record
Original decisions, evidence, rationale and timestamps preserved without overwriting.
Pass
Record passed for the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Record reviewer identity, method competence, available platform support, role separation and declared conflicts for every assigned execution and review role only when the evidence (Original decisions, evidence, rationale and timestamps preserved without overwriting.) supports: Every procedure has a competent executor and a distinct quality reviewer; conflicts or capability gaps are mitigated and recorded.
Fail
Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Record reviewer identity, method competence, available platform support, role separation and declared conflicts for every assigned execution and review role, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Every procedure has a competent executor and a distinct quality reviewer; conflicts or capability gaps are mitigated and recorded.
Not applicable
The governed assessment has no quality-control activity relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check; record why the control is not required.
Blocked
Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Repeat or recover
Repeat this action for every required variation of Reviewer capability and conflict check and after a material target, content, state, environment or configuration change. Preserve the original observation.
Limitations
This scenario records the action named Record reviewer identity, method competence, available platform support, role separation and declared conflicts for every assigned execution and review role for Reviewer capability and conflict check in accessibility-quality-control. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.
If you are new to this test
For Reviewer capability and conflict check: Keep assessors' initial decisions independent. Reconcile only after scores are frozen, and preserve both the disagreement and its resolution.
Record this step

Step 4

Record original independent decisions, calculation inputs, result, disagreements and corrective actions without replacing the source records

Purpose: For Reviewer capability and conflict check, execute the named scenario: Record original independent decisions, calculation inputs, result, disagreements and corrective actions without replacing the source records. Target: The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check. Compare the observation with this result: The quality evidence is complete, append-only and independently reviewable.

User impact: Uncontrolled methods, conflicts or disagreement can make assessment conclusions unreliable. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Record original independent decisions, calculation inputs, result, disagreements and corrective actions without replacing the source records.

Record original independent decisions, calculation inputs, result, disagreements and corrective actions without replacing the source records.

Expected result

The quality evidence is complete, append-only and independently reviewable.

Failure observation

After the tester completes the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Record original independent decisions, calculation inputs, result, disagreements and corrective actions without replacing the source records, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: The quality evidence is complete, append-only and independently reviewable.

Setup, evidence and decision guidance
Target
The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check.
Required state
For Reviewer capability and conflict check, begin in the recorded default state for the selected Reviewer capability and conflict check target before this action; preserve the exact content, account, platform and configuration used.
Tool or command
In accessibility-quality-control, Use the immutable calibration set, independent score sheets, predeclared threshold and versioned calculation or reconciliation log named by the quality-control plan.
Record
Inputs, method, output, disagreement classification and threshold comparison.
Pass
Record passed for the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Record original independent decisions, calculation inputs, result, disagreements and corrective actions without replacing the source records only when the evidence (Inputs, method, output, disagreement classification and threshold comparison.) supports: The quality evidence is complete, append-only and independently reviewable.
Fail
Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Record original independent decisions, calculation inputs, result, disagreements and corrective actions without replacing the source records, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: The quality evidence is complete, append-only and independently reviewable.
Not applicable
The governed assessment has no quality-control activity relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check; record why the control is not required.
Blocked
Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Repeat or recover
Repeat this action for every required variation of Reviewer capability and conflict check and after a material target, content, state, environment or configuration change. Preserve the original observation.
Limitations
This scenario records the action named Record original independent decisions, calculation inputs, result, disagreements and corrective actions without replacing the source records for Reviewer capability and conflict check in accessibility-quality-control. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.
If you are new to this test
For Reviewer capability and conflict check: Keep assessors' initial decisions independent. Reconcile only after scores are frozen, and preserve both the disagreement and its resolution.
Record this step

Step 5

Complete a distinct internal quality review or record a fail/cant-tell outcome and block unsupported external claims until remediation is retested

Purpose: For Reviewer capability and conflict check, execute the named scenario: Complete a distinct internal quality review or record a fail/cant-tell outcome and block unsupported external claims until remediation is retested. Target: The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check. Compare the observation with this result: A failed quality gate cannot be silently waived or reported as passed; organisational release authority remains separate.

User impact: Uncontrolled methods, conflicts or disagreement can make assessment conclusions unreliable. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Complete a distinct internal quality review or record a fail/cant-tell outcome and block unsupported external claims until remediation is retested.

Complete a distinct internal quality review or record a fail/cant-tell outcome and block unsupported external claims until remediation is retested.

Expected result

A failed quality gate cannot be silently waived or reported as passed; organisational release authority remains separate.

Failure observation

After the tester completes the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Complete a distinct internal quality review or record a fail/cant-tell outcome and block unsupported external claims until remediation is retested, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: A failed quality gate cannot be silently waived or reported as passed; organisational release authority remains separate.

Setup, evidence and decision guidance
Target
The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check.
Required state
For Reviewer capability and conflict check, begin in the final actionable state before submission and the resulting success or confirmation state; preserve the exact content, account, platform and configuration used.
Tool or command
In accessibility-quality-control, Use the immutable calibration set, independent score sheets, predeclared threshold and versioned calculation or reconciliation log named by the quality-control plan.
Record
Original decisions, evidence, rationale and timestamps preserved without overwriting.
Pass
Record passed for the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Complete a distinct internal quality review or record a fail/cant-tell outcome and block unsupported external claims until remediation is retested only when the evidence (Original decisions, evidence, rationale and timestamps preserved without overwriting.) supports: A failed quality gate cannot be silently waived or reported as passed; organisational release authority remains separate.
Fail
Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Complete a distinct internal quality review or record a fail/cant-tell outcome and block unsupported external claims until remediation is retested, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: A failed quality gate cannot be silently waived or reported as passed; organisational release authority remains separate.
Not applicable
The governed assessment has no quality-control activity relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check; record why the control is not required.
Blocked
Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Repeat or recover
Repeat this action for every required variation of Reviewer capability and conflict check and after a material target, content, state, environment or configuration change. Preserve the original observation.
Limitations
This scenario records the action named Complete a distinct internal quality review or record a fail/cant-tell outcome and block unsupported external claims until remediation is retested for Reviewer capability and conflict check in accessibility-quality-control. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.
If you are new to this test
For Reviewer capability and conflict check: Keep assessors' initial decisions independent. Reconcile only after scores are frozen, and preserve both the disagreement and its resolution.
Record this step

Step 6

Repeat material variations and recovery

Purpose: For Reviewer capability and conflict check, execute the named scenario: Repeat material variations and recovery. Target: The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check. Compare the observation with this result: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.

User impact: Uncontrolled methods, conflicts or disagreement can make assessment conclusions unreliable. This scenario isolates that risk in the action named Repeat material variations and recovery.

Repeat the Reviewer capability and conflict check action for each inventoried variation that can change the outcome. Include relevant default, revealed, error, interruption, recovery and confirmation states and complete the selected process from start to finish where this test can affect task completion.

Expected result

Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.

Failure observation

After the tester completes the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Repeat material variations and recovery, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.

Setup, evidence and decision guidance
Target
The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check.
Required state
For Reviewer capability and conflict check: Default, revealed, loading, empty, validation error, interruption, recovery and confirmation where meaningful. Every required environment, viewport, orientation, language and authenticated state recorded in the frozen scope.
Tool or command
For Reviewer capability and conflict check, use the same recorded method, then change only the state, environment or recovery condition being compared.
Record
Variation identifier; changed state or environment; start and end points; actual observation; recovery result; intervention; evidence reference and target outcome.
Pass
Record passed for the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Repeat material variations and recovery only when the evidence (Variation identifier; changed state or environment; start and end points; actual observation; recovery result; intervention; evidence reference and target outcome.) supports: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.
Fail
Record failed when the action is completed and this failure observation is reproduced: After the tester completes the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Repeat material variations and recovery, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: Every material variation and required recovery path has its own reproducible observation; no unexecuted state is merged into a passing result.
Not applicable
The governed assessment has no quality-control activity relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check; record why the control is not required.
Blocked
Record blocked, not passed, when An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Repeat or recover
Repeat this action for every required variation of Reviewer capability and conflict check and after a material target, content, state, environment or configuration change. Preserve the original observation.
Limitations
This scenario records the action named Repeat material variations and recovery for Reviewer capability and conflict check in accessibility-quality-control. It does not establish behaviour for another target, state or environment and does not set a WCAG conformance decision.
If you are new to this test
For Reviewer capability and conflict check, change one material condition at a time where practical. Do not assume that a passing default state covers errors, overlays, orientation changes, interruptions or recovery.
Record this step

Decide

How to decide

Passed

Every procedure has a competent executor and a distinct quality reviewer; conflicts or capability gaps are mitigated and recorded.

Failed

An applicable Reviewer capability and conflict check target has a reproducible material barrier against one or more stated expectations; identify the exact expectation, state and evidence.

Not applicable
The governed assessment has no quality-control activity relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check; record why the control is not required.
Cannot tell
The target is applicable, but conflicting evidence or unresolved responsibility prevents a defensible expectation decision after recorded comparison.
Not tested
An applicable target, required state, complete process or named real environment was not executed.
Aggregation and reporting boundaries

Aggregation: Preserve every target/environment outcome. Any failed target prevents an overall passed procedure result. cantTell and untested remain unresolved; inapplicable is valid only when the completed inventory contains no applicable target.

WCAG decision: This specialist, platform, document, usability or quality result does not set a WCAG success criterion to satisfied or not_satisfied automatically. Use linked atomic and criterion-level procedures for that separate decision.

Automation: A checker, accessibility-tree inspection, emulator or simulated assistive technology is diagnostic evidence only. Complete every required manual, real-platform, contextual and exception check.

Record

Record the result

Record the target, state and observed behaviour. Add evidence or technical details only when needed.

Choose the option that best matches what happened to this target.

Describe the actual behaviour and why it supports the selected result.

When more than one target is recorded, the overall procedure result is calculated from all target results.

Environment: Not set.
Add evidence or details

Choose only the group needed for this record. These fields remain optional for a working draft.

Evidence references

Enter one file name, issue ID or evidence reference per line. Files stay on your device.

Test environment

Save a named profile once to reuse the same product, platform and environment details on other procedures in this browser.

Engagement and tester identifiers

Component expectation results

Use these controls only when the procedure has distinct component expectations. The overall outcome must agree with them.

E1 Every procedure has a competent executor and a distinct quality reviewer; conflicts or capability gaps are mitigated and recorded.

E2 Every selected target and meaningful state is tested using the stated method.

E3 Another qualified tester can understand and reproduce the decision from the recorded evidence.

Formal completion and limitations

Identify the frozen list or sampling record used to select every target represented by this execution.

Choose a final result before marking the execution complete. Completed records require the full environment, step, evidence and method-specific information.

Data management

Export before clearing if the record must be retained. Apply the engagement retention schedule and delete browser data when it is no longer needed.

Saved drafts stay in this browser and are not uploaded. Do not enter credentials, secrets or unnecessary personal data.

Reference

Supporting information

Standards and requirement mappings
  • W3C-WCAG-EM-1 · W3C-WCAG-EM-1 advisory · supporting

    This source does not override WCAG or create an additional WCAG conformance requirement.

  • W3C-WCAG-EM-2 · W3C-WCAG-EM-2 advisory · supporting

    This source does not override WCAG or create an additional WCAG conformance requirement.

  • W3C-ACT-RULES-FORMAT · W3C-ACT-RULES-FORMAT advisory · supporting

    This source does not override WCAG or create an additional WCAG conformance requirement.

Supporting and advisory guidance

Supporting sources are identified in the mappings and source register. They do not add conformance requirements.

Evidence specification
  • Frozen input

    Procedure, catalogue, fixture/sample, assigned roles, conflicts, metric and threshold versions.

    Reference or redact sensitive material. Do not store credentials, secrets, unnecessary personal data or unconsented participant data.

  • Independent results

    Original decisions, evidence, rationale and timestamps preserved without overwriting.

    Reference or redact sensitive material. Do not store credentials, secrets, unnecessary personal data or unconsented participant data.

  • Calculation record

    Inputs, method, output, disagreement classification and threshold comparison.

    Reference or redact sensitive material. Do not store credentials, secrets, unnecessary personal data or unconsented participant data.

  • Decision record

    Independent agent-verification decision, verifier identity/version, scope, limitations, corrective action and next verification date.

    Reference or redact sensitive material. Do not store credentials, secrets, unnecessary personal data or unconsented participant data.

Worked example and outcome calibration

A11Y-QC-001-WORKED-001: representative worked example

Context: Representative synthetic example for Reviewer capability and conflict check on a fictional, version-frozen product target; no client or participant execution occurred.

Inspected: The tester follows S2 (Freeze versions, sample, metric, threshold, agent identities and conflicts before quality-control execution) using the target, required state, tool and repeat rule stated in this procedure.

Observed output: After the tester completes the Reviewer capability and conflict check scenario named Freeze versions, sample, metric, threshold, agent identities and conflicts before quality-control execution, the recorded observation for the target is inconsistent with the required result: The control cannot be tuned after results are known and is reproducible.

Evidence:

  • example-evidence-001: target and state record for The quality-control record relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check.
  • example-evidence-002: contemporaneous observation from the named method — Procedure, catalogue, fixture/sample, assigned roles, conflicts, metric and threshold versions.
  • example-evidence-003: comparison note linking the actual observation to the expected result and claim boundary

Tester reasoning: The recorded observation does not demonstrate the expected result: The control cannot be tuned after results are known and is reproducible. The failed decision is limited to this synthetic target and state; unexecuted coverage is not inferred.

Decision: failed

Finding: A11Y-QC-001-example-finding-001 — Reviewer capability and conflict check: expected result is not demonstrated. The represented barrier may affect People affected by assessment decisions whose reliability depends on competent and consistent reviewer practice.

Remediation: Change the represented target or process so it demonstrates this result: The control cannot be tuned after results are known and is reproducible. Then rerun the affected step and every dependent variation.

Reviewer feedback: The reviewer confirms applicability, environment, actual-versus-expected comparison, evidence references and bounded wording; unsupported product-wide or conformance language is removed.

Final client wording: Synthetic training finding: the sampled Reviewer capability and conflict check target does not meet the procedure expectation in the recorded state. User impact and broader scope require evidence from the buyer's real execution.

Retest: Synthetic retest example: after the represented change, repeat the failed step plus material error and recovery states. Close the finding only when new evidence demonstrates the expected result; otherwise retain the non-pass outcome.

Boundary: This is a representative, synthetic worked example for training and calibration. It is not evidence from a client product, participant or real assistive-technology execution.

Outcome calibration

Passed
In accessibility-quality-control, the selected Reviewer capability and conflict check target completes the recorded action and meets this expectation: Every procedure has a competent executor and a distinct quality reviewer; conflicts or capability gaps are mitigated and recorded.

The example is a calibration scenario, not an execution or approval.

Failed
An applicable Reviewer capability and conflict check target produces a reproducible barrier during the named action, with the exact state and affected user task recorded.

A failed target remains failed even if another environment or target passes.

Not applicable
The governed assessment has no quality-control activity relevant to Reviewer capability and conflict check; record why the control is not required.

Inapplicable requires a completed inventory showing that no target matches applicability; a missing environment is not inapplicable.

Cannot tell
The Reviewer capability and conflict check target is applicable, but conflicting product/platform evidence or missing authoritative information prevents a defensible responsibility or expectation decision.

Record the conflict, comparisons attempted and person or evidence needed to resolve it.

Not tested
The Reviewer capability and conflict check target is applicable, but a required state, complete process or real environment was not executed.

Untested remains incomplete and cannot be converted to passed or inapplicable.

Sampling, complete processes and platform limitations

Apply this control to the preselected assessment sample. Do not change the sample or threshold after results are known.

If this check is part of a user journey, test the selected journey from start to finish, including relevant errors and recovery. Record any path that was not tested.

  • Quality-control evidence measures method reliability; it is not product accessibility or conformance evidence.
  • Check relevant browser, tool or assistive-technology release notes before assigning unexpected behaviour to the product.
  • If responsibility is unclear, record the reproducible behaviour and use cannot tell until it is resolved.
Related procedures

No related procedure is recorded.

ACT rules and WCAG technique traceability

This is a project-authored manual procedure, not a W3C Approved ACT Rule. An ACT result can support only the part of this procedure covered by that rule. It does not replace the remaining manual or assistive-technology checks.

No supporting W3C Approved ACT Rule is selected for this procedure.

This specialist procedure is not assigned to one WCAG success criterion.

Review history and source register
  1. 2026.08.27-rc.9 — Reworked for plain language, case-focused steps, scoped evidence and transparent draft review status.
  2. 2026.08.27-rc.9 — Migrated to professional catalogue schema v3 with separated outcomes, structured authority, applicability, evidence, decision and review records.
  3. 2026.08.27-rc.9 — Specialist procedure mapped to its task family and current first-party platform guidance and checked for internal consistency; competent review and real execution remain separate.
  4. 2026.08.27-rc.9 — Added explicit preparation and variation/recovery steps plus a bounded representative worked example for paid-template use.
  5. 2026.08.27-rc.9 — Procedure guidance and presentation simplified without changing draft governance status.

Review decision: pending. Open issues: Execute all required real environments and calibration cases.; Complete a distinct competent review and retain any unresolved material finding as blocked or cantTell.

Source historyReport an accuracy issue
WCAG
Specialist or advisory method
Execution
Manual test
Catalogue version
2026.08.27-rc.9