Reports list Quality → Visual → Accessibility → Testability. That is an audience order: who is stuck, not an alphabet and not “a11y last because leftover.”
There is no W3C or ISO table that ranks these four ClickMonkey chapters. What does exist is a stable split: how broken is it for a user vs how urgently to spend a sprint. Severity vs priority shows up the same way in ISTQB-style QA writing, CivicActions / Deque a11y classification, Nielsen UX debt, and treating tech debt as developer-facing rather than user-facing.
| Rank | Chapter | Who is stuck | Analogue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quality | Anyone trying to do the job | High severity: crash, data loss, core flow fails |
| 2 | Visual | Anyone looking at the screen | High priority on the main path even if “only cosmetic” |
| 3 | Accessibility | Keyboard / AT users on that same job | Page-level block (trap, no keyboard) is do-now; component noise is next release |
| 4 | Testability | The team, next walk or spec | Dev-facing debt: fix after user-facing work unless it blocks finding (1)–(3) |
Start here uses this chapter list, then how many pages the finding hits. A two-page Quality crash outranks an eight-page Visual clip. A seventy-page Testability row waits until Quality, Visual, and Accessibility have had their turn.
Missing data-testid is how the team gets better. A keyboard trap or unlabeled submit is how a person cannot finish the voucher. Those are not leftovers. Nielsen: don’t drain the sprint on internal hygiene while users still fail.
GOV.UK / GDS treat WCAG 2.2 AA as a legal bar for public services, and still separate “user cannot complete the task” from heading-order / landmark chrome. Functional a11y (2.1.1 click on a div, 2.1.2 trap, 3.3.1 silent Save) belongs with Quality in spirit. Axe heading-order on nine pages does not.
Uncaught JS, a 409 on Save, and silent submit are rank 1. html-validate no-multiple-main on seventy pages is chrome hygiene — closer to Testability than “the product is bad.” The chapter still opens Quality-first so runtime and refused submits sit at the top of the digest; chrome html-validate rides along. Start here will still list that 70-page html-validate row first when it is the widest Quality hit.
Issue classes the walker harvests: issue-classes. Finding catalog: findings.