{ "url": "https://uidai.gov.in", "auditedAt": "2026-07-23T23:15:51.239Z", "mode": "report", "status": "completed", "statusDetail": "Atomic coverage is complete. Dynamic locale pages repeatedly failed to settle; that observed failure is recorded as an issue rather than an unexecuted check.", "page": { "appType": "hybrid", "framework": "Legacy Joomla-like server HTML plus a newer Next.js locale application observed during the same run", "notes": "The exact root response changed during evidence gathering: initial loads produced a static language selector, while a later HAR redirected / to /hi. English content was still available as full raw HTML, but Chrome load events did not settle." }, "evidenceUsed": [ "screenshot", "dom", "layout-metrics", "evaluate-probe", "discoverability", "trace", "har", "heap-summary", "headers", "cookies", "trackers", "secrets", "images", "Lighthouse", "curl/raw-HTML inspection" ], "guidanceConsulted": [ "dark-mode", "accessibility", "forms", "fluid-scaling", "optimize-image-priority", "optimize-preload-priority", "break-up-long-tasks", "identify-heavy-scripts", "security", "privacy", "passkeys", "translator", "validate-input-after-interaction", "accessible-error-announcement", "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "webmcp", "manage-recurring-intervals", "html", "cross-document-transitions", "size-aware-styling", "loading" ], "artifacts": [ { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home.png", "caption": "Language-selection entry page at desktop width", "condition": "desktop", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02", "F03" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-mobile.png", "caption": "Language-selection entry page at 360x800", "condition": "viewport: 360x800", "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/home-dark.png", "caption": "Entry page remains light when dark preference is emulated", "condition": "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-rendered.png", "caption": "Rendered entry page used for crawler comparison", "condition": "JavaScript enabled" }, { "type": "screenshot", "path": "evidence/discoverability-crawler.png", "caption": "Crawler view preserves the language-selection content", "condition": "JavaScript disabled" }, { "type": "discoverability", "path": "evidence/discoverability.json", "caption": "Raw HTML versus rendered-content discoverability results" }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/home-dom.json", "caption": "Rendered entry-page DOM and page CSS", "findingIds": [ "F01", "F03", "F04", "F09" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/home-probe.json", "caption": "Metadata, focus visibility, target dimensions and platform-feature probe", "condition": "keyboard focus", "findingIds": [ "F05", "F09", "F12" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/reduced-motion-probe.json", "caption": "Reduced-motion animation probe", "condition": "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce" }, { "type": "layout", "path": "evidence/home-mobile-layout.json", "caption": "Mobile layout metrics show no horizontal overflow or observed shifts", "condition": "viewport: 360x800" }, { "type": "trace", "path": "evidence/home-trace.json", "caption": "DevTools performance trace for the entry page" }, { "type": "trace-summary", "path": "evidence/home-trace-summary.json", "caption": "Entry-page FCP/LCP and main-thread summary" }, { "type": "har", "path": "evidence/home.har", "caption": "Network capture that redirected from the entry URL to the Hindi application" }, { "type": "har-summary", "path": "evidence/home-summary.json", "caption": "Compact network summary: 88 requests, 2.37 MB, backend timeouts and third parties", "findingIds": [ "F06", "F07", "F08", "F16", "F18" ] }, { "type": "lighthouse", "path": "evidence/lighthouse.json", "caption": "Lighthouse report for the language-selection entry page", "findingIds": [ "F02", "F05", "F07", "F08", "F10", "F11", "F12" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/lighthouse-failures.txt", "caption": "Readable extract of failed Lighthouse audits", "findingIds": [ "F02", "F07", "F08", "F10", "F11", "F12" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/images.json", "caption": "Entry-page image sizing and alternative-text probe", "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/headers.json", "caption": "Security headers observed on the exact entry URL", "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/cookies.json", "caption": "Cookie audit for the entry URL" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/trackers.json", "caption": "Initial tracker probe for the language-selector response" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/secrets.json", "caption": "Client-side secret scan found no exposed secrets" }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-baseline.json", "caption": "Baseline entry-page heap summary" }, { "type": "heap", "path": "evidence/heap-post.json", "caption": "Heap summary after ten rounds of focus/hover interactions" }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/raw-pages-summary.json", "caption": "Static summaries for home, task, forms, search and 404 archetypes", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F09", "F10", "F12", "F13", "F14", "F17" ] }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/en-home-raw.html", "caption": "Raw English home document" }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/en-my-aadhaar-get-aadhaar.html.html", "caption": "Raw Get Aadhaar task-page document" }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/en-my-aadhaar-downloads-enrolment-and-update-forms.html.html", "caption": "Raw enrolment/update forms listing document" }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/en-component-search--searchword-Aadhaar-searchphrase-all-Itemid-2376.html", "caption": "Raw search-results document" }, { "type": "dom", "path": "evidence/not-found.html", "caption": "Raw not-found response", "findingIds": [ "F06", "F10", "F13" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/robots.txt", "caption": "robots.txt request returned an HTML error page", "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "type": "other", "path": "evidence/sitemap.xml", "caption": "sitemap.xml request returned an HTML 404 fragment", "findingIds": [ "F13" ] } ], "config": { "loaded": false }, "coverage": { "catalogVersion": "modern-web-guidance@0.0.172", "catalogChecksum": "sha256:78ccfdb2d483f4c57d9dafed80fd86c6265585a56457c8dcfddc254b80fb44d7", "expected": 58, "recorded": 58, "judged": 58, "blocked": 0, "notRun": 0, "missing": 0, "unknown": 0, "duplicates": 0, "complete": true }, "checkOutcomes": [ { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-color-scheme", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "emulated-media screenshot/evaluate", "evidence": "Dark-preference screenshot is visually and byte-for-byte identical to the light screenshot; no colour preference CSS was found.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ], "findingIds": [ "F01" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-reduced-motion", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "emulated-media screenshot/evaluate", "evidence": "With prefers-reduced-motion: reduce active, the entry page reported zero running animations.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ] }, { "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "checkId": "respects-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "emulated-media screenshot/evaluate", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured two instruction-text nodes at 4.02:1, below 4.5:1.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ], "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "view-transitions", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM/CSS and interaction inspection", "evidence": "Language buttons use document.location.replace and source has no view-transition styles.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ], "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "scroll-driven-animations", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "DOM/CSS and interaction inspection", "evidence": "DOM/CSS inspection found no scroll-linked motion and no scroll-event-driven animation on the selector, so no main-thread scroll animation anti-pattern is present.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ] }, { "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "checkId": "physical-gestures", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "DOM/CSS and interaction inspection", "evidence": "The selector exposes ordinary large buttons and no custom pointer, swipe, drag or overscroll interaction that fights native input.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "scroll-state-aware-chrome", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "visual/DOM navigation inspection", "evidence": "The short selector fits one page and has no affixed chrome requiring scroll-state adaptation; mobile layout remained stable.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ] }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "anchored-positioning", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "visual/DOM navigation inspection", "evidence": "No tooltip, popover or floating menu was present on the selector or the representative static pages, so there is no anchored overlay to evaluate.", "reason": "No tooltip, popover or floating menu was present on the selector or the representative static pages, so there is no anchored overlay to evaluate." }, { "principleId": "provide-guided-navigation", "checkId": "directs-attention", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "visual/DOM navigation inspection", "evidence": "Language navigation provides no directional transition or destination focus cue.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ], "findingIds": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "no-intrusive-interruptions", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "desktop/mobile screenshots and DOM inspection", "evidence": "Desktop and mobile screenshots show content immediately with no popup, consent wall or interstitial obscuring it.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "semantic-dismissible-primitives", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "desktop/mobile screenshots and DOM inspection", "evidence": "No overlay or rich disclosure appeared on the evaluated selector or representative raw task pages, so no ad-hoc overlay was observed.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "checkId": "reduced-chrome", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "desktop/mobile screenshots and DOM inspection", "evidence": "The selector devotes the viewport to one instruction and language choices with minimal framing.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "responsive-no-horizontal-scroll", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "360x800 layout plus focus probe and CSS inspection", "evidence": "At 360x800, layout metrics report scrollWidth 360, innerWidth 360 and horizontalOverflowPx 0.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "component-level-responsiveness", "status": "issues", "confidence": "medium", "method": "360x800 layout plus focus probe and CSS inspection", "evidence": "Captured selector CSS and representative source contain no container query usage for repeated controls.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ], "findingIds": [ "F04" ] }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "checkId": "input-modality-aware", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "360x800 layout plus focus probe and CSS inspection", "evidence": "All 13 focused buttons compute to outline none and no box shadow.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ], "findingIds": [ "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-purpose-and-primary-action", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "first-viewport review and repeated language-flow attempts", "evidence": "The first viewport plainly asks users to select a preferred language and presents all language actions immediately.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "primary-flow-completion", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "first-viewport review and repeated language-flow attempts", "evidence": "Repeated /en loads timed out at 120 seconds and direct Chrome timed out at 300 seconds.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "checkId": "clear-system-state-and-recovery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "first-viewport review and repeated language-flow attempts", "evidence": "The stalled locale load exposed no actionable loading/error/retry state.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "good-core-web-vitals", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse, trace, HAR, layout and images probes", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured LCP 1.3 s, CLS 0.009 and TBT 0 ms; the independent trace measured LCP 2366 ms and TBT 0 ms.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "visual-stability", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse, trace, HAR, layout and images probes", "evidence": "Two entry images and most representative-page images omit intrinsic dimensions, creating avoidable shift risk despite low observed CLS.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-main-thread", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse, trace, HAR, layout and images probes", "evidence": "Trace summary recorded no long tasks and zero total blocking time; Lighthouse TBT was also 0 ms.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse, trace, HAR, layout and images probes", "evidence": "Lighthouse found render-blocking/cache issues; HAR captured six backend resources timing out around five minutes.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F06", "F07" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "checkId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse, trace, HAR, layout and images probes", "evidence": "98% of Bootstrap CSS was unused; the application HAR included 39 scripts and duplicate Google tags.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F08" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "names-roles-labels", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility, visual inspection, focus/structure and raw-DOM probes", "evidence": "Representative raw task/forms pages include images without alt; entry grouping is generically named “Basic example”.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "get-aadhaar", "forms" ], "findingIds": [ "F09", "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "sufficient-contrast", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility, visual inspection, focus/structure and raw-DOM probes", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured two text failures at 4.02:1.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "get-aadhaar", "forms" ], "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "structure-and-focus", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility, visual inspection, focus/structure and raw-DOM probes", "evidence": "Entry has no heading/landmark structure and all focused language buttons have no visible indicator.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "get-aadhaar", "forms" ], "findingIds": [ "F05", "F09" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "legible-text", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility, visual inspection, focus/structure and raw-DOM probes", "evidence": "The primary instruction text fails minimum normal-text contrast at 4.02:1.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "get-aadhaar", "forms" ], "findingIds": [ "F02" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "checkId": "zoom-reflow-targets-and-media", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse accessibility, visual inspection, focus/structure and raw-DOM probes", "evidence": "The 360px screenshot reflows to two columns without horizontal overflow, Lighthouse target-size passed, and the viewport permits scaling.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "get-aadhaar", "forms" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "no-console-errors", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse and raw-document/assets inspection", "evidence": "Lighthouse logged a 404 for the locale favicon.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "not-found" ], "findingIds": [ "F11" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "sound-document-and-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "Lighthouse and raw-document/assets inspection", "evidence": "Images omit intrinsic dimensions and the 404 response lacks a complete HTML document structure.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "not-found" ], "findingIds": [ "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "checkId": "browser-platform-hygiene", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "Lighthouse and raw-document/assets inspection", "evidence": "Lighthouse best-practices scored 0.96; aside from the separately recorded favicon console error, no permission prompt, paste prevention or deprecated-platform failure was observed.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "not-found" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "title-and-description", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "discoverability primitive, raw HTML, metadata, robots and sitemap requests", "evidence": "Entry has no description; representative pages reuse one generic description and no canonical.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home", "get-aadhaar", "forms", "search" ], "findingIds": [ "F12" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "crawlable-and-mobile-friendly", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "discoverability primitive, raw HTML, metadata, robots and sitemap requests", "evidence": "robots/sitemap endpoints return error HTML and search output includes anchors without href.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home", "get-aadhaar", "forms", "search" ], "findingIds": [ "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "discoverability primitive, raw HTML, metadata, robots and sitemap requests", "evidence": "No canonical/hreflang signals were found and robots/sitemap endpoints are invalid.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home", "get-aadhaar", "forms", "search" ], "findingIds": [ "F12", "F13" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "checkId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "discoverability primitive, raw HTML, metadata, robots and sitemap requests", "evidence": "Four public organization/service archetypes contain Open Graph but zero JSON-LD blocks.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home", "get-aadhaar", "forms", "search" ], "findingIds": [ "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "headers, cookies, secrets and HAR third-party analysis", "evidence": "Exact selector response omitted CSP, HSTS, nosniff, frame, referrer and permissions headers.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "headers, cookies, secrets and HAR third-party analysis", "evidence": "Application HAR captured 31 third-party requests/627 KB, duplicate analytics and failed translation calls.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "in-context-permissions-and-modern-auth", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "headers, cookies, secrets and HAR third-party analysis", "evidence": "The audited UIDAI information surfaces expose neither a permission request nor an authentication form; account/authentication is handed to separate MyAadhaar origins outside this run.", "reason": "The audited UIDAI information surfaces expose neither a permission request nor an authentication form; account/authentication is handed to separate MyAadhaar origins outside this run." }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "checkId": "defensive-browser-policies", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "headers, cookies, secrets and HAR third-party analysis", "evidence": "The selector template lacks all browser-enforced policies inspected by the headers primitive.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F15" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "progressive-enhancement", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "no-JS/raw HTML comparison, route attempts and 404/network failure inspection", "evidence": "Discoverability measured 100% rendered-word coverage in raw HTML and no JavaScript shell; raw task pages contain full headings, links and content.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home", "not-found" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "resilient-runtime-behaviour", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "no-JS/raw HTML comparison, route attempts and 404/network failure inspection", "evidence": "Locale application loads never settled and multiple backend resources timed out after about five minutes.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home", "not-found" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "offline-and-installable", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "no-JS/raw HTML comparison, route attempts and 404/network failure inspection", "evidence": "The audited surface is a public information/service gateway rather than a standalone app, so installability is not required; progressive enhancement and failure handling were judged separately.", "reason": "The audited surface is a public information/service gateway rather than a standalone app, so installability is not required; progressive enhancement and failure handling were judged separately." }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "checkId": "network-and-http-failure-states", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "no-JS/raw HTML comparison, route attempts and 404/network failure inspection", "evidence": "Timed-out backend resources produced no useful recovery UI; error templates are incomplete.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home", "not-found" ], "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "lang/dir and raw CSS/markup inspection", "evidence": "Multilingual labels, including Urdu, have no per-language dir, and sampled source showed no logical CSS.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "locale-aware-data", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "lang/dir and raw CSS/markup inspection", "evidence": "No locale-sensitive date, currency, duration or calendar value appeared in the evaluated selector and selected task/form archetypes.", "reason": "No locale-sensitive date, currency, duration or calendar value appeared in the evaluated selector and selected task/form archetypes." }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "checkId": "time-zone-correctness", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "lang/dir and raw CSS/markup inspection", "evidence": "The representative pages expose no event scheduling or time-zone-sensitive data.", "reason": "The representative pages expose no event scheduling or time-zone-sensitive data." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "no-dark-patterns", "status": "pass", "confidence": "high", "method": "choice and representative form/flow inspection", "evidence": "The selector presents all 13 languages at equal visual weight with no preselected, shaming or coercive choice.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "humane-error-handling", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "choice and representative form/flow inspection", "evidence": "No data-entry or required-field workflow exists on the selector; the search field has no validation semantics to exercise.", "reason": "No data-entry or required-field workflow exists on the selector; the search field has no validation semantics to exercise." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "trustworthy-input-assistance", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "choice and representative form/flow inspection", "evidence": "The sampled forms contain only search/hidden controls; no address, payment, sign-in or sign-up field requires autofill tokens.", "reason": "The sampled forms contain only search/hidden controls; no address, payment, sign-in or sign-up field requires autofill tokens." }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "checkId": "safe-commercial-and-account-flows", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "choice and representative form/flow inspection", "evidence": "No checkout, subscription, consent, authentication or account-management flow is hosted on the audited UIDAI pages.", "reason": "No checkout, subscription, consent, authentication or account-management flow is hosted on the audited UIDAI pages." }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "optimised-assets", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR bytes, media and failed-work analysis", "evidence": "Application HAR includes a 440 KB chatbot GIF and roughly 444 KB of decorative backgrounds.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "no-wasteful-work", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR bytes, media and failed-work analysis", "evidence": "Repeated translation requests returned 401 while six media requests ran for around five minutes before timing out.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F16", "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "checkId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "status": "issues", "confidence": "high", "method": "HAR bytes, media and failed-work analysis", "evidence": "2.37 MB initial transfer includes 627 KB third-party code, duplicate analytics, a 440 KB GIF and large decorative media.", "pathIds": [ "entry", "english-home" ], "findingIds": [ "F18" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "structured-agent-capabilities", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "raw source capability inspection and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No declared agent-facing surface was found; this emerging capability is optional and its absence is not penalised.", "reason": "No declared agent-facing surface was found; this emerging capability is optional and its absence is not penalised." }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "checkId": "on-device-inference", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "raw source capability inspection and applicability judgement", "evidence": "No on-device inference use case is declared or needed for the audited selector and content templates.", "reason": "No on-device inference use case is declared or needed for the audited selector and content templates." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-leak-under-repeated-interaction", "status": "not-applicable", "confidence": "high", "method": "baseline/post heap-summary comparison", "evidence": "The selector has no reversible stateful interaction to repeat; language selection is a one-way navigation that failed to settle, so a synthetic leak cycle was not fabricated.", "reason": "The selector has no reversible stateful interaction to repeat; language selection is a one-way navigation that failed to settle, so a synthetic leak cycle was not fabricated." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "bounded-footprint", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "baseline/post heap-summary comparison", "evidence": "Baseline heap was 2.84 MB self size with 58,659 nodes, proportionate for the selector; the post-interaction snapshot remained 3.23 MB.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ] }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "checkId": "no-detached-dom-or-unbounded-listeners", "status": "pass", "confidence": "medium", "method": "baseline/post heap-summary comparison", "evidence": "Neither heap summary lists Detached* constructors; ten focus/hover rounds produced no detached-DOM population.", "pathIds": [ "entry" ] } ], "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": [ "F03" ] }, { "principleId": "maximize-content-reduce-noise", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F04", "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F10", "F06", "F07", "F08" ] }, { "principleId": "be-inclusive", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F09", "F10", "F02", "F05" ] }, { "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F11", "F10" ] }, { "principleId": "be-discoverable", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F12", "F13", "F14" ] }, { "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "expectation": "default", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F15", "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-resilient", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F06" ] }, { "principleId": "be-internationalised", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F17" ] }, { "principleId": "be-trustworthy", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" }, { "principleId": "be-sustainable", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "issues", "findingIds": [ "F18", "F16" ] }, { "principleId": "be-agent-ready", "expectation": "contextual", "status": "not-applicable", "reason": "All checks were judged not applicable for this public information/service scope." }, { "principleId": "be-memory-efficient", "expectation": "default", "status": "pass" } ], "paths": [ { "id": "entry", "description": "Public entry and language-selection archetype; tested visually, on mobile, under dark/reduced-motion preferences, with performance/security/accessibility probes.", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "conditions": [ "desktop", "viewport: 360x800", "prefers-color-scheme: dark", "prefers-reduced-motion: reduce", "keyboard-only" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "english-home", "description": "English locale homepage and destination of the primary language journey; raw HTML inspected and browser navigation attempted repeatedly.", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/en", "conditions": [ "JavaScript enabled", "raw HTML/no-JS" ], "result": "failed" }, { "id": "get-aadhaar", "description": "Primary service/task-list archetype representing how residents start an Aadhaar journey.", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/en/my-aadhaar/get-aadhaar.html", "conditions": [ "raw HTML/no-JS" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "forms", "description": "Forms/download listing archetype representing enrolment and update paperwork.", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/en/my-aadhaar/downloads/enrolment-and-update-forms.html", "conditions": [ "raw HTML/no-JS" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "search", "description": "Search-results/form archetype representing content discovery.", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/en/component/search/?searchword=Aadhaar&searchphrase=all&Itemid=2376", "conditions": [ "raw HTML/no-JS" ], "result": "issues" }, { "id": "not-found", "description": "Invalid-route recovery archetype.", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/en/definitely-not-a-real-page-web-uplift", "conditions": [ "HTTP error response", "raw HTML/no-JS" ], "result": "issues" } ], "findings": [ { "id": "F01", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "respect-user-preferences", "principleCheckId": "respects-color-scheme", "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "The entry page ignores the user’s dark-colour preference.", "evidence": "The normal and prefers-color-scheme: dark screenshots are byte-identical (51,328 bytes in the initial captures), and the DOM/CSS evidence contains no prefers-color-scheme or color-scheme rule.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home.png", "evidence/home-dark.png", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Declare color-scheme: light dark and define accessible surface/text colours with prefers-color-scheme or light-dark(), while retaining a light fallback.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F02", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "sufficient-contrast", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "summary": "Instruction text misses WCAG minimum contrast.", "evidence": "Lighthouse measured #137eb2 text on #f2f2f2 at 4.02:1 for both English and Hindi instructions, below the required 4.5:1.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-failures.txt", "evidence/home-mobile.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Darken the blue text or lighten its background until normal text reaches at least 4.5:1 in every theme and contrast mode.", "effort": "trivial" }, { "id": "F03", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "implement-natural-interactions", "principleCheckId": "view-transitions", "guidanceId": "cross-document-transitions", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "Language changes are abrupt document replacements with no transition or attention cue.", "evidence": "The DOM wires every language button to document.location.replace(), contains no view-transition CSS, and the entry screenshots show no state or directional cue beyond the button grid.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/home.png" ], "suggestedFix": "Use cross-document View Transitions with a reduced-motion fallback, and preserve/focus the destination heading after language selection.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F04", "severity": "low", "confidence": "medium", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "component-level-responsiveness", "guidanceId": "size-aware-styling", "guidanceCategory": "css", "summary": "Responsive behaviour is viewport-driven rather than component-driven.", "evidence": "The captured entry CSS and static representative documents contain no @container or container-type usage; repeated cards and controls are sized through Bootstrap viewport columns.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/raw-pages-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Give reusable card/control regions containment and use size container queries for their internal layout, retaining viewport rules as a broad-page fallback.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F05", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "adapt-to-the-form-factor", "principleCheckId": "input-modality-aware", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "summary": "Keyboard focus is not visibly indicated on any language button.", "evidence": "The active focus probe found outline: none 0px and no box-shadow for all 13 buttons. Lighthouse confirms target sizes are adequate, so the failure is specifically keyboard focus visibility.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add a strong :focus-visible indicator with at least a 2px contrasting outline and offset; do not remove the browser outline without an equivalent.", "effort": "trivial" }, { "id": "F06", "severity": "critical", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "english-home", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/en", "principleId": "support-core-task-success", "principleCheckId": "primary-flow-completion", "guidanceId": "loading", "guidanceCategory": "user-experience", "summary": "The primary language-entry journey did not complete in Chrome because the destination load never settled.", "evidence": "Six raw-CDP attempts to load /en timed out after 120 seconds and a direct Chrome attempt timed out after 300 seconds. A later HAR of the root redirect to /hi recorded six backend image requests taking roughly 297–303 seconds and failing with ERR_TIMED_OUT; no useful recovery state appeared.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/not-found.html" ], "suggestedFix": "Remove blocking dependency on the timing-out backend, enforce short request timeouts, render the core page shell/content independently, and expose an actionable retry/error state.", "effort": "large" }, { "id": "F07", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "efficient-resource-delivery", "guidanceId": "optimize-preload-priority", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "summary": "Resource delivery has avoidable blocking and cache inefficiency.", "evidence": "Lighthouse reports 430 ms potential savings from render-blocking styles and 39 KiB from missing cache lifetimes; the HAR summary also identifies uncompressed translation JS/CSS with no cache headers.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-failures.txt", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Inline only critical entry styles, defer non-critical CSS, set long immutable caching for versioned assets, and compress/cache the translation bundle.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F08", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-fast-and-stable", "principleCheckId": "trim-unused-and-duplicate-code", "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "summary": "The entry journey ships substantial unused and duplicate client code.", "evidence": "Lighthouse found 98% (23 KiB) of Bootstrap CSS unused on the selector. The later application HAR transferred 2.37 MB across 88 requests, including three Google tag scripts totalling about 460 KiB and 39 script requests overall.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-failures.txt", "evidence/home-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Replace full Bootstrap on the selector with scoped critical CSS, load one analytics configuration, and split/defer application code by route and user intent.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F09", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-inclusive", "principleCheckId": "structure-and-focus", "guidanceId": "accessibility", "guidanceCategory": "accessibility", "summary": "The entry surface lacks semantic page structure and visible keyboard orientation.", "evidence": "The rendered entry has no h1–h6, header, nav, main or footer landmark, and the only named role is a generic group labelled “Basic example”; all focused controls have no visible outline.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/home-dom.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Use a main landmark and a real h1 for the language prompt, give the group a descriptive label, and provide a persistent :focus-visible treatment.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F10", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "sound-document-and-assets", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "summary": "Images lack intrinsic dimensions and the error template is not a sound HTML document.", "evidence": "Both entry images omit width and height; Lighthouse fails unsized-images. The representative raw pages contain many more dimensionless images, while the 404 response has no doctype, html lang, title, viewport or h1.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/images.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/raw-pages-summary.json", "evidence/not-found.html" ], "suggestedFix": "Add numeric intrinsic width/height to every img and serve the 404 through the normal document template with doctype, language, metadata, landmarks and an h1.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F11", "severity": "low", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "follow-best-practices", "principleCheckId": "no-console-errors", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "summary": "The entry page logs a failed favicon request.", "evidence": "Lighthouse captured a 404 console/network error for /en/uidai-website/templates/tjbase/favicon.ico.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/lighthouse-failures.txt" ], "suggestedFix": "Correct the favicon URL and verify the asset returns 200 on every locale route.", "effort": "trivial" }, { "id": "F12", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "title-and-description", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "summary": "Metadata is incomplete and insufficiently unique across representative pages.", "evidence": "The language selector has no meta description. Four English archetypes use distinct titles but the same generic UIDAI description, and none exposes a canonical URL.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-probe.json", "evidence/lighthouse.json", "evidence/raw-pages-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Give the selector and each template a concise page-specific description and emit a self-referencing canonical URL.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F13", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "search", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/sitemap.xml", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "canonical-and-indexing-signals", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "summary": "Crawler discovery and indexing signals are internally inconsistent.", "evidence": "Requests to /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml returned styled 404/error HTML rather than valid directives/XML; representative pages expose no canonical or hreflang links, and the search HTML includes three anchors without href.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/robots.txt", "evidence/sitemap.xml", "evidence/raw-pages-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Serve valid robots.txt and XML sitemap files, add self-canonicals plus locale hreflang alternates, and ensure navigational links have real href values.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F14", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "english-home", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/en/", "principleId": "be-discoverable", "principleCheckId": "structured-and-shareable-metadata", "guidanceId": "html", "guidanceCategory": "html", "summary": "Public organization and service pages lack structured entity metadata.", "evidence": "The four raw English archetypes include Open Graph tags but zero application/ld+json blocks despite representing a government organization, services and forms.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/raw-pages-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Add accurate JSON-LD for GovernmentOrganization/WebSite and relevant service or article entities, matching the visible page content.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F15", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "secure-transport-and-headers", "guidanceId": "security", "guidanceCategory": "security", "summary": "The exact entry response omits browser security headers even though the newer locale response supplies them.", "evidence": "The headers primitive found no CSP, HSTS, nosniff, clickjacking, referrer or permissions policy on the language selector. A separate curl response for /en did include these controls, showing inconsistent policy by template.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/headers.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Apply the same CSP, HSTS, nosniff, frame-ancestors, Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy at the edge to every response, including selector and error templates.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F16", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "english-home", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/hi", "principleId": "be-private-and-secure", "principleCheckId": "data-minimisation-and-third-parties", "guidanceId": "privacy", "guidanceCategory": "privacy", "summary": "Third-party analytics and translation traffic is disproportionate on initial entry.", "evidence": "The HAR records 31 third-party requests and 627,109 transferred bytes, including three Google tag scripts and repeated translation calls that returned 401.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "suggestedFix": "Consolidate analytics to one consent-aware endpoint, delay it until needed/allowed, self-host or trim translation assets, and prevent unauthorized retry traffic.", "effort": "medium" }, { "id": "F17", "severity": "medium", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "entry", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/", "principleId": "be-internationalised", "principleCheckId": "lang-dir-and-logical-properties", "guidanceId": "translator", "guidanceCategory": "built-in-ai", "summary": "The multilingual selector does not mark per-language direction and uses no logical layout properties.", "evidence": "The page html language is en, but all 13 language labels, including RTL Urdu, are rendered without dir attributes. Static summaries found physical CSS and no logical-property evidence.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-dom.json", "evidence/raw-pages-summary.json" ], "suggestedFix": "Set lang and dir on each language label (dir=rtl for Urdu) and migrate reusable spacing/positioning to inline/block logical properties.", "effort": "small" }, { "id": "F18", "severity": "high", "confidence": "high", "pathId": "english-home", "url": "https://uidai.gov.in/hi", "principleId": "be-sustainable", "principleCheckId": "third-party-and-media-budget", "guidanceId": "deliver-optimized-decorative-images", "guidanceCategory": "performance", "summary": "Media and third-party cost is excessive for a government service gateway.", "evidence": "The application HAR transfers 2.37 MB: a 440 KiB chatbot GIF, 444 KiB of decorative background WebP images, 627 KiB of third-party resources and duplicated analytics. Six backend media requests ran for about five minutes before timeout.", "artifacts": [ "evidence/home-summary.json", "evidence/home.har" ], "suggestedFix": "Replace the GIF with a small static/modern animation, remove or sharply compress decorative backgrounds, consolidate analytics, lazy-load optional tools and cancel timed-out media requests quickly.", "effort": "medium" } ], "taskList": [ { "id": "T01", "title": "Make locale entry and backend-dependent content load reliably", "priority": 1, "findingIds": [ "F06" ], "guidanceId": "loading", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T02", "title": "Restore visible keyboard focus and semantic page structure", "priority": 2, "findingIds": [ "F05", "F09" ], "guidanceId": "accessibility", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T03", "title": "Apply security headers consistently to every template", "priority": 3, "findingIds": [ "F15" ], "guidanceId": "security", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T04", "title": "Reduce, defer and deduplicate scripts, media and third parties", "priority": 4, "findingIds": [ "F07", "F08", "F16", "F18" ], "guidanceId": "identify-heavy-scripts", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T05", "title": "Repair crawler infrastructure and indexing metadata", "priority": 5, "findingIds": [ "F12", "F13", "F14" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T06", "title": "Meet text contrast and user colour preferences", "priority": 6, "findingIds": [ "F01", "F02" ], "guidanceId": "dark-mode", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T07", "title": "Add intrinsic media dimensions and repair error/favicon assets", "priority": 7, "findingIds": [ "F10", "F11" ], "guidanceId": "html", "status": "open" }, { "id": "T08", "title": "Make multilingual layout direction-aware and interaction transitions clear", "priority": 8, "findingIds": [ "F03", "F04", "F17" ], "guidanceId": "translator", "status": "open" } ], "budget": { "wallClockSeconds": 2500, "pathCount": 6, "auditPasses": 1 }, "agent": "pi", "runId": "2026-07-23T22-50-14-618Z" }