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External counselling sites, sign-in, destructive/account flows and downstream application submission were not covered because they cross to separate origins or were disabled." }, "evidenceUsed": [ "screenshot", "dom", "evaluate-probe", "layout-metrics", "trace", "har", "discoverability", "headers", "cookies", "trackers", "secrets", "images", "heap-summary", "lighthouse", "Modern Web Guidance 0.0.172" ], "guidanceConsulted": [ "dark-mode", "accessibility", "directional-navigation-transitions", "scroll-position-aware-elements", "css", "performance", "html", "security", "privacy", "forms", "optimize-image-priority", "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "fluid-scaling", "validate-input-after-interaction", "webmcp" ], "artifacts": [ { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-desktop.png", "caption": "Home at desktop width", "condition": "desktop", "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-mobile.png", "caption": "Home at mobile width", "condition": 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"evidence/cookies.json", "caption": "Cookie security attributes", "condition": "load", "findingIds": [ "F20" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/trackers.json", "caption": "Third-party tracker inventory", "condition": "load", "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/secrets.json", "caption": "Client-side secret-pattern scan", "condition": "load", "findingIds": [] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/images.json", "caption": "Image dimensions, sizing, loading, format and alt audit", "condition": "load", "findingIds": [ "F09", "F11", "F15", "F25" ] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/lighthouse.json", "caption": "Lighthouse performance, accessibility, best-practices and SEO report", "condition": "desktop", "findingIds": [ "F06", "F07", "F10", "F11", "F12", "F13", "F14", "F15", "F16", "F17" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/focus-targets.json", "caption": "Focus, target size and accessible-name probe", "condition": "keyboard", "findingIds": 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"method": "emulated screenshots and computed media/animation probe", "evidence": "The reduced-motion probe reports one running animation with a 1000 ms duration while matchMedia(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) is true.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark-reduce.png", "evidence/home-forced-colors.png", "evidence/modern-css-motion.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-contrast", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "emulated screenshots and computed media/animation probe", "evidence": "Forced-colors screenshot retained visible text, controls, borders and navigation in the tested state.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark-reduce.png", "evidence/home-forced-colors.png", "evidence/modern-css-motion.json" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "view-transitions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "rendered DOM/CSS inspection across SPA routes", "evidence": "DOM/CSS inspection found no view-transition signal, while the audited Home, Institutes, OR-CR and Counsellings routes replace the main view in the Angular shell.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/orcr-dom.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "scroll-driven-animations", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "rendered DOM/CSS inspection across SPA routes", "evidence": "No parallax, scrollytelling, scroll reveal or other scroll-linked motion exists on the representative routes.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/orcr-dom.json" ], "reason": "No parallax, scrollytelling, scroll reveal or other scroll-linked motion exists on the representative routes." }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "physical-gestures", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "rendered DOM/CSS inspection across SPA routes", "evidence": "No swipe, pull, drag, carousel gesture or comparable gesture-driven task exists in the representative paths.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/orcr-dom.json" ], "reason": "No swipe, pull, drag, carousel gesture or comparable gesture-driven task exists in the representative paths." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "mobile route screenshots, layout and CSS inspection", "evidence": "The mobile home is 5,284 CSS pixels tall, while CSS inspection found no scroll-state query or progress/position affordance.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "anchored-positioning", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "mobile route screenshots, layout and CSS inspection", "evidence": "No tooltip, contextual popover or edge-positioned menu was present in the tested route states.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "reason": "No tooltip, contextual popover or edge-positioned menu was present in the tested route states." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "directs-attention", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "mobile route screenshots, layout and CSS inspection", "evidence": "Active navigation styling, route headings, and clear card/link labels guide attention on the tested routes.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "load screenshots and overlay DOM probe", "evidence": "No load-time modal, interstitial, consent wall or full-viewport overlay appeared on any representative route.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/counsellings-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "load screenshots and overlay DOM probe", "evidence": "No modal, disclosure or transient overlay was present in the tested route states.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/counsellings-mobile.png" ], "reason": "No modal, disclosure or transient overlay was present in the tested route states." }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "reduced-chrome", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "load screenshots and overlay DOM probe", "evidence": "Mobile screenshots devote the primary viewport to route content after a compact shared header; no intrusive decorative chrome obscures tasks.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-desktop.png", "evidence/counsellings-mobile.png" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "360×800 screenshots/layout plus focus/target probe and Lighthouse", "evidence": "At 360×800, scrollWidth and clientWidth are both 360 with zero overflow; all six route screenshots reflow.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "component-level-responsiveness", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "360×800 screenshots/layout plus focus/target probe and Lighthouse", "evidence": "The responsive mobile screenshots render without overflow, but CSS inspection found no @container or container-type signal across reused cards and filters.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "input-modality-aware", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "360×800 screenshots/layout plus focus/target probe and Lighthouse", "evidence": "The focus/target probe found 11×11 carousel dots, a 20×20 Pause target, many 14–23 px-high links, and three unnamed focusable controls; Lighthouse target-size also failed eight targets.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "walkthrough of Home, Institutes, OR-CR, Counsellings, Notifications and Contact plus missing-route test", "evidence": "The Home H1 states the admissions purpose and primary counselling links are visible; route screenshots clearly name Institutes, ranks and National Counsellings tasks.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/institutes-mobile.png", "evidence/orcr-mobile.png", "evidence/counsellings-mobile.png", "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "primary-flow-completion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "walkthrough of Home, Institutes, OR-CR, Counsellings, Notifications and Contact plus missing-route test", "evidence": "Representative browsing reaches institute filters, rank authority choices and counselling search without login, modal or hidden prerequisite.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/institutes-mobile.png", "evidence/orcr-mobile.png", "evidence/counsellings-mobile.png", "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "walkthrough of Home, Institutes, OR-CR, Counsellings, Notifications and Contact plus missing-route test", "evidence": "A fetch of /admiss/admissions/definitely-missing-web-uplift returned HTTP 200 with the generic Admissions shell instead of a 404 recovery state.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile.png", "evidence/institutes-mobile.png", "evidence/orcr-mobile.png", "evidence/counsellings-mobile.png", "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "trace summary, HAR summary, DOM script attributes, image audit and Lighthouse", "evidence": "The trace measured FCP/LCP at 3,478.53 ms and load end at 4,036.14 ms; Lighthouse performance scored 0.45.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "trace summary, HAR summary, DOM script attributes, image audit and Lighthouse", "evidence": "HAR/DOM evidence confirms parser-inserted non-deferred jQuery, Popper, Bootstrap, and a second jQuery; 1.54 MB transfers include a 316 KB banner, while all 28 images lack both dimensions. The images primitive reports all 28 images missing width/height; Lighthouse also failed image-aspect-ratio for one rendered image.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F09", "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "trace summary, HAR summary, DOM script attributes, image audit and Lighthouse", "evidence": "The trace recorded two long tasks (126.52 ms and 101.61 ms) and 128.13 ms total blocking time.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F08" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "trace summary, HAR summary, DOM script attributes, image audit and Lighthouse", "evidence": "HAR/DOM evidence confirms parser-inserted non-deferred jQuery, Popper, Bootstrap, and a second jQuery; 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Lighthouse failed image-alt (7 rendered nodes) and button-name (2 nodes), and the Counsellings stream select has no label.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F11" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility audits, image audit, focus/target probe and screenshots", "evidence": "Lighthouse’s color-contrast audit failed 24 nodes on the landing page.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility audits, image audit, focus/target probe and screenshots", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed heading-order; several non-home routes expose no meaningful page heading, and the focus probe found unnamed controls and inputs whose computed outline is none.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility audits, image audit, focus/target probe and screenshots", "evidence": "Desktop and mobile screenshots show readable line lengths, wrapping and no text clipping in the sampled route states.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility audits, image audit, focus/target probe and screenshots", "evidence": "The focus/target probe found 11×11 carousel dots, a 20×20 Pause target, many 14–23 px-high links, and three unnamed focusable controls; Lighthouse target-size also failed eight targets.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/images.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse best-practices audits plus DOM/image inspection", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed errors-in-console and reported seven logged browser errors.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse best-practices audits plus DOM/image inspection", "evidence": "The images primitive reports all 28 images missing width/height; 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Lighthouse fails meta-description, and route probes show the same title across six archetypes.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "rendered metadata probe, discoverability raw-vs-rendered comparison and robots/sitemap fetch", "evidence": "Viewport meta is present and primary route/navigation links use real HTTPS href values; the root robots absence does not itself block crawling.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "rendered metadata probe, discoverability raw-vs-rendered comparison and robots/sitemap fetch", "evidence": "No canonical was found; /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml return 404; an application nonexistent route returns HTTP 200.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "rendered metadata probe, discoverability raw-vs-rendered comparison and robots/sitemap fetch", "evidence": "The rendered DOM contains zero JSON-LD blocks and no Open Graph metadata.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F19" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "headers, cookies, trackers, secrets and HAR evidence", "evidence": "CSP permits unsafe-inline and unsafe-eval; ASP.NET_SessionId lacks Secure, and another session cookie lacks HttpOnly and uses SameSite=None.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/secrets.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F20" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "headers, cookies, trackers, secrets and HAR evidence", "evidence": "Tracker/HAR evidence finds four third-party origins, Google Tag Manager, seven third-party requests and 280,624 third-party bytes.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/secrets.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F21" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "headers, cookies, trackers, secrets and HAR evidence", "evidence": "No permission prompt or authentication flow is part of this public admissions-directory scope; the disabled Sign In control was not an exercisable auth journey.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/secrets.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "reason": "No permission prompt or authentication flow is part of this public admissions-directory scope; the disabled Sign In control was not an exercisable auth journey." }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "headers, cookies, trackers, secrets and HAR evidence", "evidence": "Headers evidence finds no HSTS, nosniff, frame-ancestors/X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, or Permissions-Policy.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json", "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/secrets.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "no-JS discoverability, route walkthrough, SW/manifest probe and nonexistent-route fetch", "evidence": "Discoverability evidence fetched 783 bytes of raw HTML with zero visible text/content tokens, 0% rendered-word coverage, no title or H1, and a blank crawler screenshot.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png", "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F23" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "no-JS discoverability, route walkthrough, SW/manifest probe and nonexistent-route fetch", "evidence": "Representative list/filter/menu surfaces rendered without clipped overlays or unstable state in desktop/mobile captures.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png", "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "no-JS discoverability, route walkthrough, SW/manifest probe and nonexistent-route fetch", "evidence": "This public informational portal is not presented as an installable app; offline installability is contextual, while progressive enhancement is judged separately.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png", "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ], "reason": "This public informational portal is not presented as an installable app; offline installability is contextual, while progressive enhancement is judged separately." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "no-JS discoverability, route walkthrough, SW/manifest probe and nonexistent-route fetch", "evidence": "A fetch of /admiss/admissions/definitely-missing-web-uplift returned HTTP 200 with the generic Admissions shell instead of a 404 recovery state.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png", "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "lang/dir and rendered locale-sensitive content inspection", "evidence": "The document declares lang=en and the integrated language translator provides an explicit localization affordance; tested mobile layouts preserve reading order.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "lang/dir and rendered locale-sensitive content inspection", "evidence": "Visible counts use Indian digit grouping (for example 11,60,368), appropriate to the portal’s national locale.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "lang/dir and rendered locale-sensitive content inspection", "evidence": "No event time, appointment, deadline timestamp or other time-zone-sensitive value appeared on representative routes.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "reason": "No event time, appointment, deadline timestamp or other time-zone-sensitive value appeared on representative routes." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "representative journey and form/input inventory", "evidence": "No consent wall, forced continuity, confirmshaming, disguised advertisement or paid/account continuity flow appeared across six representative routes.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/counsellings-probe.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "representative journey and form/input inventory", "evidence": "No authored data-entry form with a validation/error submission path appeared in the representative public routes.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/counsellings-probe.json" ], "reason": "No authored data-entry form with a validation/error submission path appeared in the representative public routes." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "representative journey and form/input inventory", "evidence": "No address, payment, sign-in, sign-up or personal-data input requiring autocomplete tokens appeared in scope.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/counsellings-probe.json" ], "reason": "No address, payment, sign-in, sign-up or personal-data input requiring autocomplete tokens appeared in scope." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "representative journey and form/input inventory", "evidence": "No checkout, subscription, active authentication or account-management flow was available in the public scope.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/counsellings-probe.json" ], "reason": "No checkout, subscription, active authentication or account-management flow was available in the public scope." }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR, image audit, trace and media inventory", "evidence": "The page transfers 733,872 image bytes; 13 images use legacy formats, 10 below-fold images are not lazy, five are oversized, and six responsive candidates lack srcset.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F25" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR, image audit, trace and media inventory", "evidence": "Trace/HAR showed a bounded load with no media autoplay and no continuing long-task stream during the observation window.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/images.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR, image audit, trace and media inventory", "evidence": "The 1.54 MB load includes 280,624 third-party bytes and a 316,400-byte banner; translation resources are loaded twice in the script list.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/images.json" ], "findingIds": [ "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM/source capability probe plus contextual applicability judgement", "evidence": "Agent-facing integration is emerging and not declared as an intent for this public directory; absence is an opportunity, not a failure.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json" ], "reason": "Agent-facing integration is emerging and not declared as an intent for this public directory; absence is an opportunity, not a failure." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM/source capability probe plus contextual applicability judgement", "evidence": "No summarization or language-model task requiring on-device inference is declared or necessary for the sampled portal tasks.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json" ], "reason": "No summarization or language-model task requiring on-device inference is declared or necessary for the sampled portal tasks." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "baseline/post-scroll heap summaries and in-page heap/DOM metrics", "evidence": "After ten full-page scroll cycles, heap snapshot self size increased about 0.75% (24,937,363 to 25,124,819 bytes) and DOM count stayed 591.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.heapsnapshot", "evidence/heap-post-scroll.heapsnapshot", "evidence/memory-metrics.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "baseline/post-scroll heap summaries and in-page heap/DOM metrics", "evidence": "The page held about 25 MB heap self-size and 375k heap nodes, proportionate to the rendered Angular portal and stable during the sampled interaction.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.heapsnapshot", "evidence/heap-post-scroll.heapsnapshot", "evidence/memory-metrics.json" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "baseline/post-scroll heap summaries and in-page heap/DOM metrics", "evidence": "Across ten scroll cycles DOM element count stayed exactly 591 and heap node growth was about 0.13%; no unbounded accumulation signal was observed.", "pathIds": [ "home", "institutes", "orcr", "counsellings", "notifications", "contact" ], "artifacts": [ "evidence/heap-baseline.heapsnapshot", "evidence/heap-post-scroll.heapsnapshot", "evidence/memory-metrics.json" ] } ], "principleOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F05", "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F07", "F09", "F15", "F08", "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F11", "F12", "F13", "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F14", "F15", "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F17", "F18", "F19" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F20", "F21", "F22" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F23", "F24" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F25", "F26" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "All checks are contextual and judged not applicable: Agent-facing integration is emerging and not declared as an intent for this public directory; absence is an opportunity, not a failure. No summarization or language-model task requiring on-device inference is declared or necessary for the sampled portal tasks." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" } ], "paths": [ { "id": "home", "description": "Public landing page and global navigation; represents the shared shell and primary discovery journey.", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home", "conditions": [ "desktop", "viewport: 360x800", "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "forced-colors: active", "keyboard focus" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "institutes", "description": "Institute listing/filter archetype; represents browse and filter tasks.", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/institutes", "conditions": [ "viewport: 360x800" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "orcr", "description": "Opening and closing ranks chooser; represents a primary decision-support journey.", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/orcr", "conditions": [ "viewport: 360x800" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "counsellings", "description": "National counselling search/listing archetype with stream filter.", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/counselling_admissions", "conditions": [ "viewport: 360x800" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "notifications", "description": "Latest notifications/content-list archetype.", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/notifications", "conditions": [ "viewport: 360x800" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "contact", "description": "Contact and support content archetype.", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/ContactUs", "conditions": [ "viewport: 360x800" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "missing-route", "description": "Recovery behavior for a nonexistent application route.", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/definitely-missing-web-uplift", "conditions": [ "HTTP fetch" ], "result": "issues" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F01", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The site does not follow the user’s dark color-scheme preference.", "evidence": "Under prefers-color-scheme: dark the screenshot remains white and the computed body colors remain rgb(255,255,255) on rgb(33,37,41).", "suggestedFix": "Declare color-scheme and provide preference-driven dark surface and text tokens, with tested media/content contrast.", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dark-reduce.png", "evidence/modern-css-motion.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F02", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "An animation continues when reduced motion is requested.", "evidence": "The reduced-motion probe reports one running animation with a 1000 ms duration while matchMedia(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) is true.", "suggestedFix": "Disable non-essential carousel/transition animation and auto-advance inside prefers-reduced-motion: reduce.", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-reduced-motion", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "artifacts": [ "evidence/modern-css-motion.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F03", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "SPA route changes have no directional or continuity transition.", "evidence": "DOM/CSS inspection found no view-transition signal, while the audited Home, Institutes, OR-CR and Counsellings routes replace the main view in the Angular shell.", "suggestedFix": "Use same-document View Transitions for route content, respecting reduced motion.", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "directional-navigation-transitions", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/orcr-dom.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F04", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Long pages provide no scroll-position-aware navigation or progress cue.", "evidence": "The mobile home is 5,284 CSS pixels tall, while CSS inspection found no scroll-state query or progress/position affordance.", "suggestedFix": "Add a restrained scroll-aware cue such as a shrinking header, back-to-top action, or section progress where it aids orientation.", "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "principleCheckId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "guidanceId": "scroll-position-aware-elements", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "evidence/modern-css-motion.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F05", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Components adapt only through global layout rules, not their own containers.", "evidence": "The responsive mobile screenshots render without overflow, but CSS inspection found no @container or container-type signal across reused cards and filters.", "suggestedFix": "Introduce container queries for reused counselling cards and filter modules that appear in different widths.", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "guidanceId": "css", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "artifacts": [ "evidence/modern-css-motion.json", "evidence/counsellings-mobile.png" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F06", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Several controls are too small and some focusable controls have no accessible name.", "evidence": "The focus/target probe found 11×11 carousel dots, a 20×20 Pause target, many 14–23 px-high links, and three unnamed focusable controls; Lighthouse target-size also failed eight targets.", "suggestedFix": "Provide at least 24×24 CSS px targets with adequate spacing (prefer 44×44 for primary touch controls), visible focus, and names for icon/custom controls.", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "artifacts": [ "evidence/focus-targets.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F07", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Initial content is slow to become visible.", "evidence": "The trace measured FCP/LCP at 3,478.53 ms and load end at 4,036.14 ms; Lighthouse performance scored 0.45.", "suggestedFix": "Prioritize the LCP content, shorten critical chains, remove duplicated blocking libraries, and defer non-critical translation/analytics work.", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "good-core-web-vitals", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F08", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Startup scripting blocks the main thread.", "evidence": "The trace recorded two long tasks (126.52 ms and 101.61 ms) and 128.13 ms total blocking time.", "suggestedFix": "Break up startup work and defer or conditionally load non-critical scripts.", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-main-thread", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-trace-summary.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F09", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The critical path includes blocking legacy scripts and oversized, unsized images.", "evidence": "HAR/DOM evidence confirms parser-inserted non-deferred jQuery, Popper, Bootstrap, and a second jQuery; 1.54 MB transfers include a 316 KB banner, while all 28 images lack both dimensions.", "suggestedFix": "Remove duplicate jQuery, defer non-critical scripts, reserve image space, and optimize/preload only the true LCP asset.", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/images.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F10", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page ships duplicate and legacy JavaScript.", "evidence": "Rendered DOM lists two jQuery files plus ES2015 and ES5 bundle variants; Lighthouse flags missing source maps for a large first-party bundle.", "suggestedFix": "Remove duplicate libraries, verify nomodule/module delivery, tree-shake bundles, and publish production source maps securely.", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "performance", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F11", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Key images and controls lack accessible alternatives.", "evidence": "The images audit found 21 of 28 images without alt; Lighthouse failed image-alt (7 rendered nodes) and button-name (2 nodes), and the Counsellings stream select has no label.", "suggestedFix": "Add context-appropriate alt text or empty alt for decoration, label the select, and name all icon buttons.", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "names-roles-labels", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/counsellings-probe.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F12", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Text and controls repeatedly fail minimum contrast.", "evidence": "Lighthouse’s color-contrast audit failed 24 nodes on the landing page.", "suggestedFix": "Replace low-contrast gray/blue combinations with tokens meeting WCAG AA in every theme and state.", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/home-desktop.png" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F13", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Heading structure and focus semantics are inconsistent.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed heading-order; several non-home routes expose no meaningful page heading, and the focus probe found unnamed controls and inputs whose computed outline is none.", "suggestedFix": "Give each route a logical H1-led hierarchy and use :focus-visible styles that remain visible on every control.", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/orcr-probe.json", "evidence/focus-targets.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F14", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The page logs browser errors during load.", "evidence": "Lighthouse failed errors-in-console and reported seven logged browser errors.", "suggestedFix": "Resolve failed requests and runtime/third-party errors, and keep production console monitoring clean.", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "no-console-errors", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F15", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Image sizing and aspect-ratio handling are unsound.", "evidence": "The images primitive reports all 28 images missing width/height; Lighthouse also failed image-aspect-ratio for one rendered image.", "suggestedFix": "Add intrinsic width/height or aspect-ratio and preserve natural aspect ratios in CSS.", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F16", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Production debugging and browser hygiene have unresolved issues.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reports two DevTools Inspector issues and a missing source map for a large first-party JavaScript bundle.", "suggestedFix": "Review DevTools Issues, update stale libraries, and provide valid source maps through an access-controlled release pipeline.", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F17", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Every audited route uses a generic title and has no meta description.", "evidence": "Rendered metadata reports title “Admissions” and no description; Lighthouse fails meta-description, and route probes show the same title across six archetypes.", "suggestedFix": "Generate unique route-specific titles and concise meta descriptions reflecting each visible task.", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "title-and-description", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/orcr-probe.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F18", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Indexing signals are incomplete and nonexistent routes return a success shell.", "evidence": "No canonical was found; /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml return 404; an application nonexistent route returns HTTP 200.", "suggestedFix": "Serve accurate 404 status codes, publish robots.txt and sitemap.xml, and add self-referencing canonicals for public routes.", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "artifacts": [ "evidence/resilience-indexing.json", "evidence/recon.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F19", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The public admissions entity has no structured or share-preview metadata.", "evidence": "The rendered DOM contains zero JSON-LD blocks and no Open Graph metadata.", "suggestedFix": "Add accurate Organization/WebSite and relevant page-level schema.org JSON-LD plus Open Graph/Twitter preview metadata.", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "artifacts": [ "evidence/recon.json" ], "effort": "small", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F20", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Session cookies and the CSP are not securely hardened.", "evidence": "CSP permits unsafe-inline and unsafe-eval; ASP.NET_SessionId lacks Secure, and another session cookie lacks HttpOnly and uses SameSite=None.", "suggestedFix": "Harden CSP with nonces/hashes and no unsafe-eval, and set Secure, HttpOnly, and the narrowest workable SameSite value on session cookies.", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json", "evidence/cookies.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F21", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "The public portal loads tracking and translation third parties by default.", "evidence": "Tracker/HAR evidence finds four third-party origins, Google Tag Manager, seven third-party requests and 280,624 third-party bytes.", "suggestedFix": "Document the data purpose, minimize analytics, defer translation resources until needed, and gate non-essential tracking on valid consent where required.", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "privacy", "guidanceCategory": "privacy", "artifacts": [ "evidence/trackers.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F22", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Important browser-enforced security policies are missing.", "evidence": "Headers evidence finds no HSTS, nosniff, frame-ancestors/X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, or Permissions-Policy.", "suggestedFix": "Deploy HSTS, nosniff, frame-ancestors, strict Referrer-Policy and a least-privilege Permissions-Policy after staged testing.", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "defensive-browser-policies", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F23", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "summary": "All core public content disappears without JavaScript.", "evidence": "Discoverability evidence fetched 783 bytes of raw HTML with zero visible text/content tokens, 0% rendered-word coverage, no title or H1, and a blank crawler screenshot.", "suggestedFix": "Server-render or pre-render route content and keep core links/forms functional as progressive HTML enhancements.", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "progressive-enhancement", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "artifacts": [ "evidence/discoverability.json", "evidence/discoverability-rendered.png", "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png" ], "effort": "large", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F24", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Unknown routes resolve to a misleading successful application shell.", "evidence": "A fetch of /admiss/admissions/definitely-missing-web-uplift returned HTTP 200 with the generic Admissions shell instead of a 404 recovery state.", "suggestedFix": "Return the correct status and render a branded, actionable not-found page with links back to admissions tasks.", "principleId": "be-resilient", "principleCheckId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "artifacts": [ "evidence/resilience-indexing.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "missing-route", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/definitely-missing-web-uplift" }, { "id": "F25", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Image delivery wastes bandwidth.", "evidence": "The page transfers 733,872 image bytes; 13 images use legacy formats, 10 below-fold images are not lazy, five are oversized, and six responsive candidates lack srcset.", "suggestedFix": "Convert raster assets to AVIF/WebP, emit responsive sources, lazy-load below-fold media, and right-size logos and banners.", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "optimised-assets", "guidanceId": "optimize-image-priority", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" }, { "id": "F26", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "summary": "Third-party and decorative bytes are disproportionate for a mostly informational page.", "evidence": "The 1.54 MB load includes 280,624 third-party bytes and a 316,400-byte banner; translation resources are loaded twice in the script list.", "suggestedFix": "Load translation once and on demand, remove redundant third parties, and compress/defer decorative media.", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/recon.json" ], "effort": "medium", "pathId": "home", "url": "https://admissions.nic.in/admiss/admissions/Home" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T01", "title": "Server-render public route content and correct route/indexing responses", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F23", "F24", "F18" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T02", "title": "Fix accessible names, labels, contrast, heading order and touch targets", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F06", "F11", "F12", "F13" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T03", "title": "Harden CSP, cookies and browser security headers", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F20", "F22" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T04", "title": "Reduce critical-path scripts and optimize image delivery", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F07", "F08", "F09", "F10", "F15", "F25", "F26" ], "guidanceId": "performance", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T05", "title": "Add unique titles, descriptions, canonicals and rich metadata", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F17", "F18", "F19" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T06", "title": "Respect dark-mode and reduced-motion preferences", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ], "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T07", "title": "Resolve console, inspector and source-map hygiene", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F14", "F16" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T08", "title": "Add route continuity and component-level responsive enhancements", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F03", "F04", "F05" ], "guidanceId": "css", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T09", "title": "Minimize and defer third-party tracking and translation", "priority": 9, "findingIds": [ "F21", "F26" ], "guidanceId": "privacy", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "pathCount": 7, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-26T21-44-58-448Z" }