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ContentsKnowledge
Knowledge
Prove the need, screen operations, document your work.
Audit areas

Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA)
Regulated by law · BaFG/BFSG
Measured in a real browser across three device profiles. A substantial share of these criteria cannot be decided by a machine; those stay visibly open until a human auditor has ruled on them.
All 86 articles

Data protection & cookies
Regulated by law · GDPR
What loads before any consent, whether pressing “reject” actually stops it, cookies set before a choice was made, remotely loaded web fonts, and the presence of a privacy notice.
All 15 articles

CO₂ & EmpCo
Regulated by law · Directive (EU) 2024/825
Page weight, transfer and requests per visit, the estimated CO₂ emission, and whether the hosting runs on renewable energy.
All 6 articles

Visibility in AI answers
Best practice
Whether an answering system can find, extract and attribute a passage of your page: answer-first openings, question headings, self-contained sections, machine-readable facts.
All 12 articles

Search engine optimisation
Best practice
Titles and descriptions, heading structure, internal linking, structured data.
All 30 articles

Indexing & technical setup
Best practice
Whether search engines may fetch the page, can find it and assign it unambiguously.
All 25 articles

Responsive behaviour
Best practice
Three device profiles rendered in a real browser: horizontal overflow, target sizes, text overflow.
All 9 articles

Loading performance
Best practice
Loading behaviour, responsiveness, layout stability, measured rather than estimated.
All 8 articles

Currency
State of the art · GDPR Art. 32
Detected CMS, extensions and libraries past their maintenance end, determined passively, without credentials.
All 5 articles
Image credits
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA): Michal Klajban, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Data protection & cookies: Blogtrepreneur, CC BY 2.0
- CO₂ & EmpCo: Janusz Sobolewski, CC BY 2.0
- Visibility in AI answers: Smart Home Perfected, CC BY 2.0
- Search engine optimisation: Carlos Muza, CC0
- Indexing & technical setup: Derrick Coetzee, CC0
- Responsive behaviour: William Iven, CC0
- Loading performance: William Warby, CC BY 2.0
- Currency: qubodup, CC BY 2.0
Topics

Cyber insurance
Declared protective measures and measured technology: the prerequisites for the fifth seal.

E-commerce
Findability and performance as the basis for success, plus the accessibility obligation in commerce.

Screening in ongoing operation
Repeat audits show what a relaunch or an update has changed.

Needs analysis before the project
Prove the need for action on a website before money is discussed.

Proving agency work
The measured change between two runs, publicly documented.

Automation and MCP
Start audits, query their status and fetch the task list: through an AI assistant via MCP or through the interface from your own script.

Enhanced accessibility (AAA)
The 31 level-AAA criteria of WCAG 2.2: what goes beyond the law, which of it is measurable and what a person judges.

Tracking search queries and rankings
What Google knows about your website: search queries, clicks, positions, indexing; collected daily, with change and opportunities.

ADA, EAA, Section 508: what each regulation requires
Three regulations, three WCAG versions, one audit run: who falls under ADA, EAA and Section 508, what they require technically and how the report states the status per regulation.
Image credits
- Cyber insurance: Alan Levine, CC0
- E-commerce: Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0
- Screening in ongoing operation: Alan Levine, CC BY 2.0
- Needs analysis before the project: Alejandro Escamilla, CC0
- Proving agency work: rawpixel.com, CC0
- Automation and MCP: Mirko Tobias Schäfer, CC BY 2.0
- Enhanced accessibility (AAA): Leonhard Lenz, CC0
- Tracking search queries and rankings: Carlos Muza, CC0
- ADA, EAA, Section 508: what each regulation requires: Chris Lawton, CC0
Reports and sources

Reports and context
Obligations, deadlines and the limits of automated tests, from the practice of an audit service.

Sources and measurement methods
Who stands behind the rules a finding refers to, and how a tool checks them.

Criteria register
Every single check of the service with a stable identifier, its state and its references, to cite and to extend.
Image credits
- Reports and context: Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0
- Sources and measurement methods: Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0
- Criteria register: Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0




