The SimplifyAccess Score provides a quick overview of your website's current accessibility health.
Displayed at the top of Site Workspace, it combines available accessibility results with information about the completeness and freshness of your website's assessments.
The score helps answer three important questions:
- How well does my website perform in automated accessibility checks?
- Have enough pages been assessed to provide a meaningful overview?
- Are there important accessibility issues or outdated assessments that need attention?
Alongside the score, several informational indicators show how many pages have been discovered, processed, or are waiting for further work.
Together, these values provide a starting point for understanding your website's accessibility condition.
1. Where to Find the SimplifyAccess Score
Open Site Workspace and select the controller associated with your website.
The status card appears at the top of the right-hand overview area.
It contains:
- The overall SimplifyAccess Score, expressed as a percentage.
- A descriptive status label.
- A colored progress bar showing the score on a scale from 0% to 100%.
- Informational indicators showing website processing and audit status.
The score and indicators relate to the currently selected controller.
2. Understanding the SimplifyAccess Score
The SimplifyAccess Score represents the overall accessibility health of your website based on the information available to the platform.
It is not simply the average score of your individual pages.
Instead, the assessment takes several factors into consideration.
| Factor | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Accessibility audit results | Indicate how well the assessed pages perform in automated accessibility checks |
| Audit coverage | Shows how much of the known website has been assessed |
| Accessibility issues | Helps identify pages with important or recurring accessibility problems |
| Audit freshness | Indicates whether existing assessment results may need updating |
These factors help provide a broader picture of accessibility health.
For example, a website may achieve excellent results on its audited pages but still have a lower overall SimplifyAccess Score if many other pages have not yet been assessed.
Similarly, older audits or significant accessibility problems may affect the overall result.
Understanding the Status Labels
The SimplifyAccess Score is accompanied by a descriptive status.
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Good | The website shows strong overall accessibility health based on the available results |
| Needs improvement | Some aspects of accessibility health deserve additional attention |
| Critical | The overall assessment indicates substantial weaknesses or insufficient assessment results |
The progress bar uses corresponding colors to help distinguish between these conditions.
A higher score generally indicates a stronger overall assessment.
Important: The SimplifyAccess Score is a technical health indicator, not a legal compliance certification. Even a score of 100% does not guarantee that every accessibility barrier has been identified.
3. Understanding the Informational Indicators
Beneath the score, several small indicators—sometimes called status chips—summarize the website's processing and audit information.
These values provide context for the overall score.
| Indicator | Description |
|---|---|
| Total URLs | Number of website URLs currently known to the controller |
| Processed URLs | Number of URLs successfully processed by SimplifyAccess |
| Pending URLs | Number of URLs waiting for processing |
| Failed URLs | Number of URLs whose processing has failed |
| Outdated Audits | Number of existing accessibility assessments considered outdated |
The Processed, Pending, and Failed indicators also display their respective percentages of the known URLs.
4. How to Improve Your SimplifyAccess Score
Improving your score starts with understanding which factors require attention.
A useful approach is to work through the following priorities.
Complete Missing Accessibility Audits
Check whether all relevant website pages have been assessed.
Incomplete audit coverage can limit the overall assessment, even when the audited pages perform well.
Resolve Important Accessibility Issues
Review pages with detected accessibility problems, especially issues affecting several pages or important website functionality.
The Workspace provides two useful starting points:
- Pages Needing Attention: Highlights pages requiring closer investigation.
- Top Domain Blockers: Identifies significant accessibility issues affecting the website.
Open individual page details to review the underlying findings.
Refresh Outdated Assessments
If the status card indicates outdated audits, consider running new accessibility checks.
This is particularly useful after website updates or accessibility improvements.
Review Processing Problems
Check whether any URLs remain pending or have failed processing.
Resolving these issues helps maintain a more complete picture of the website.
Tip: Focus on actual accessibility improvements and complete, current assessments rather than trying to increase the score alone.
5. Understanding Changes to Your Score
The SimplifyAccess Score can change as new information becomes available.
For example, the score may change when:
- Additional website pages are discovered and assessed.
- Previously unaudited pages receive accessibility results.
- Accessibility problems are corrected and pages are re-audited.
- New problems are detected.
- Existing audit results become outdated or are refreshed.
An increase generally indicates an improvement in the website's assessed accessibility health.
A decrease does not always mean the website itself has become less accessible. It may also reflect newly discovered pages, additional findings, or changes in the completeness and freshness of the available assessments.
For this reason, the score should always be interpreted together with the informational indicators and the detailed accessibility findings.
For a broader explanation of the platform's accessibility management process, visit How SimplifyAccess Works.
Remember: A useful accessibility score is supported by complete, current assessments. Use the SimplifyAccess Score to monitor your website's overall condition and the accompanying indicators to identify where further work is needed.