Accessibility re-verification, with evidence your auditor will accept.

Yes. MeitY circulars require all Central and State government ministries, departments, and PSU portals to comply with GIGW 3.0 and obtain a STQC Certificate of Quality Website (CQW). Non-compliant portals risk failing government IT audits and procurement evaluations.

GIGW 3.0 is a superset of WCAG 2.1 Level AA — not WCAG 2.2. It covers 88 mandatory checkpoints: 25 Quality, 50 Accessibility (the WCAG 2.1 AA layer), 3 Security (CERT-In VAPT), and 10 Lifecycle Management. A WCAG-compliant website is not automatically GIGW 3.0 compliant — GIGW adds 38 checkpoints covering content quality, broken links, security disclosures, and lifecycle governance that WCAG does not address.

Yes. The SEBI circular SEBI/HO/ITD-1/ITD_VIAP/P/CIR/2025/111 applies to all SEBI-regulated entities — AIFs, brokers, mutual funds, portfolio managers, credit rating agencies, and depositories — regardless of whether they are public or private. Full WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA and IS 17802 compliance is required by July 31, 2026. Auditors must hold IAAP certification (CPACC or WAS); our ITQCR audit team is IAAP-certified.

IS 17802 is India's Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) ICT accessibility standard, harmonised with WCAG 2.1. RBI and SEBI both reference IS 17802 alongside WCAG compliance. An IS 17802 conformance test is effectively a WCAG 2.1 test performed under the BIS standard framework — AccessSure maps scan results to IS 17802 criteria automatically.

An audit is the initial conformance review against WCAG 2.2 AA or GIGW 3.0. Re-verification is the periodic re-test that proves the site still conforms after code changes, content updates, or a redesign. AccessSure handles continuous re-verification between formal audit cycles — catching regressions before they reach the STQC reviewer.

No tool — including ours — can automate 100% of GIGW checks. Automated scanning reliably covers approximately 40–60% of testable criteria. The remainder — keyboard navigation, screen reader interaction, cognitive assessment, and CERT-In security disclosures — requires expert manual review. AccessSure flags every criterion that needs human review and packages it into the audit format reviewers already use.

The Certificate of Quality Website is issued by STQC (Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification Directorate) under MeitY after a website passes all four pillars of GIGW 3.0: Quality, Accessibility, Security, and Lifecycle Management. The certification requires an audit by an STQC-empanelled laboratory like ITQCR, followed by STQC's own review and verification.

No. A formal IAAP-led manual audit is still required for CQW certification and SEBI compliance milestones. AccessSure runs automated re-verification between those audits, catches regressions early, and supplies the screenshot evidence pack and STQC-format report that reviewers ask for — dramatically reducing the time your auditors spend gathering evidence.

For each finding: the WCAG success criterion reference (e.g., WCAG 2.2 AA – 1.4.3), severity level, failing element selector, an annotated screenshot, the page URL, and a developer-ready fix recommendation. Reports export as PDF, DOCX, or JSON for ingestion into GRC tools or direct STQC submission.

Deque axe, WAVE, and Siteimprove are global tools with no GIGW 3.0 awareness — they cannot map results to GIGW's 88-checkpoint structure, generate STQC-format audit reports, or integrate with the CQW certification pathway. AccessSure is the only scanner built specifically for the Indian government compliance ecosystem, operated by ITQCR — an STQC SAB SETL-1 empanelled laboratory.