simplA11yReport is a tool supporting the simplified accessibility monitoring method as described in the commission implementing decision EU 2018/1524. It is used by SIP (Information and Press Service) in Luxembourg to monitor the websites of public sector bodies.

This tool crawls a list of websites and download all PDF and office documents. Then it analyses the PDF documents and tries to detect accessibility issues. The generated files can then be used by the tool simplA11yGenReport to give an overview of the state of document accessibility on controlled websites.

Most of the accessibility reports (in french) published by SIP on data.public.lu have been generated using simplA11yGenReport and data coming from this tool.

On all PDF files we execute the following tests:

git clone https://github.com/accessibility-luxembourg/simplA11yPDFCrawler.git
cd simplA11yPDFCrawler
npm install
pip install -r requirements.txt
mkdir crawled_files ; mkdir out 
chmod a+x *.sh

To be able to use this tool, you need a list of websites to crawl. Store this list in a file named list-sites.txt, one domain per line (without protocol and without path). Example of content for this file:

test.public.lu
etat.public.lu

Then the tool is used in two steps:

1. Crawl all the files. Launch the following command crawl.sh. It will crawl all the sites mentioned in list-sites.txt. Each site is crawled during maximum 4 hours (it can be adjusted in crawl.sh). The resulting files will be placed in the crawled_filesfolder. This step can be quite long.
2. Analyse the files and detect accessibility issues. Launch the command analyse.sh. The resulting files will be placed in the outfolder.

The file generated by this tool is a CSV file with the following columns:

• Accessible: if we detect any accessibility issue on a file, this will be False
• TotallyInaccessible: if one of the following tests fail, this will be True: TaggedTest, EmptyTextTest, ProtectedTest
• BrokenFile: has the tool been able to read the file, if not, the file is considered "broken"
• TaggedTest: is the file tagged? If not, this is a serious accessibility issue.
• EmptyTextTest: does the file contain text or only images? it could indicate a scanned document on which no OCR has been executed. This is potentially a serious accessibility issue.
• ProtectedTest: is the file protected against the use by assistive technologies? This is a serious accessibility issue.
• TitleTest: has the file a defined title and is the flag "Display Document Title" activated in order to display the title in the title bar of the pdf reader window?
• LanguageTest: has the file a valid language defined?
• BookmarksTest: if the file has more than 20 pages, has this file bookmarks?
• Exempt: is the file outside of the scope of the luxembourgish law? It can be the case if it has been published before the 23 September 2018. This test is just an estimation based on the creation date of the file.
• Date: creation date
• hasTitle: is a title defined for the file?
• hasDisplayDocTitle: is the DisplayDocTitle flag set?
• hasLang: has the file a defined language?
• InvalidLang: is the defined language valid?
• Form: does the file contain a form?
• xfa: does the file contain a dynamic XFA form?
• hasBookmarks: has the file bookmarks?
• hasXmp: does the file contain XMP metadata?
• PDFVersion: pdf version of the file?
• Creator: creator of the file (software)
• Producer: producer of the file (software)
• Pages: NR of pages

This software is developed by the Information and press service of the luxembourgish government and licensed under the MIT license.