What is an accessibility conformance report?

An accessibility conformance report goes criterion by criterion through a standard and states, for each one, whether the product supports it, partially supports it, or does not. The VPAT is the most common template.

In practice at an event

Its value to a buyer is that it is specific and falsifiable. A marketing page saying a product is accessible is unverifiable. A report saying a particular success criterion is partially supported, with an explanation, tells you something you can act on and is a stronger signal of honesty than a claim of full conformance.

Public sector procurement in several jurisdictions requires one. Increasingly, so do universities and large enterprises.

What to look for

Ask for it in the written round. Most vendors in the event app market will not have one, and that is worth knowing early.

The shape of the answer is informative even when the answer is no. “No, here is what we do instead and here is when we expect that to change” is a different position from “yes, we’re fully accessible” with no document attached.

Check the date and the scope. A report covering only the web version, or written three years ago, covers less than it appears to.

Where event67 stands

event67 does not currently publish an accessibility conformance report or a VPAT. If your review requires one by name, score it as absent.

What exists instead is narrower and should not be mistaken for it: the theme editor checks colour pairs against WCAG AA and surfaces the result, warning rather than blocking. That is one automated criterion, not a conformance assessment, and describing it as one would be misleading.