Website Owners: Formalize ApS
Website Domain: whistleblowersoftware.com/secure/98f5ec13-1d6f-4688-a602-484fa4dfbd60
Certificate Status: Silver
Certification Date: 2026-04-20
WACA certification
With this certificate, the WACA initiative strives for a very high level and outstanding quality of accessibility, which is why the most basic WCAG criteria must be met for successful certification. The auditors test according to a predefined scheme and their own testing methodology strictly according to these criteria. The WACA certificate is awarded at 3 different levels. For each WCAG success criterion, a separate grading for gold, silver and bronze has been defined. This means that websites that do not meet the highest WCAG requirements or are best practice, but have basic accessibility and do not exclude anyone from using the website, can also be awarded. For the Silver or Bronze grades, accessibility efforts must be clearly and unambiguously recognizable, see definition of WACA grades.
WACA certifies websites that can be narrowed down precisely, usually defined by a URL, and draws a representative sample (test sample) from this. However, the following content or functions of a website are generally excluded from the audit:
- PDF
- EPUB
- Live transmitted time-based media
- Content that is only available to a closed group of people and not to the general public (extranets and intranets).
- external content from third-party providers that was neither financed nor developed by the website operator and is therefore not subject to its control (such as Google Maps, YouTube, Facebook, external iframes and widgets, etc.), defined as follows:
- Third-party content that cannot be interacted with (e.g. Facebook tracking pixels) is excluded from the check.
- Third-party content that does not provide basic, central functionality of the page is excluded from the check.
- Third-party content that provides additional information and is essential for users requires an alternative.
- If a website consists largely of third-party content, certification is rejected and the order is not accepted. Website is not auditable in this case.
- Online maps and map services, but these must have an accessible alternative.
- Google Captcha (ReCaptcha V2): Only valid for WACA quality levels Silver and Bronze.
General Comment of the Certification Authority:
For this WACA certification, 5 templates of this web application were checked for web accessibility according to WCAG 2.1 - A and WCAG 2.1 - AA (https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/). A strong orientation towards accessibility can be seen in the tested templates. Many of the problem areas that arose in the first audit have been rectified.
As a representative sample for the entire application "Whistleblower Software", a complete use case of a test version in English language based on a test platform with the URL https://whistleblowersoftware.com/secure/98f5ec13-1d6f-4688-a602-484fa4dfbd60 was selected for the certification audit. The product website https://whistleblowersoftware.com/en was not in the scope of this audit.
April 2026: The web application has successfully completed the WCAG 2.2 AA recertification process and has been awarded the Silver certification.”
Evaluated test sample
WACA deviations and WACA gradations
WBS T1: Homepage english
Criterion 1.1.1 - Non-text Content: Silver
- The current logos do not have meaningful alternative texts, but tolerable because of the test character of the application.
Criterion 1.3.1 - Info and Relationships: Silver
- Hierarchy not quite optimal (gaps) but tolerable for silver
Criterion 2.4.3 - Focus Order: Silver
- When activating the content tabs, the keyboard focus does not move to the displayed content.
This is tolerable for silver, as the content appears directly after the tabs.
WBS T2: New report
Criterion 2.1.1 - Keyboard: Silver
- The pseudo-select fields, e.g. “Language” and “Select departments associated with the case”, can be operated with a screen reader, but are not optimal on mobile devices.
This is tolerable for silver, as basic functionality is ensured.
Criterion 2.4.3 - Focus Order: Silver
- When expanding the “show more” content, the focus is not optimally reset but tolerable for silver
WBS T3: Submit report
Criterion 3.3.1 - Error Identification: Silver
- If the password has not been downloaded or copied to the clipboard, the “Continue” button cannot be activated, even if the checkbox “I have stored my password securely…” is selected. There is no indication of which step is missing. This is tolerable for silver, as the content of the page implies saving the message.
Criterion 4.1.3 - Status Messages: Silver
- Displayed notifications such as “Copied to clipboard” are not sufficiently conveyed to non-visual users in firefox (chrome/edge is ok). This is tolerable for silver, as a browser issue is suspected.
WBS T4: Follow up on existing report
WBS T5: Content-page