Who is trying to use this site
L
Lakshmi, 71, Nellore
Retired widow, low vision from cataracts, uses her son's phone with pinch-zoom. Needs the IFSC of her home branch to give to the government pension office.
Lakshmi wants to find the IFSC code for a specific SBI branch.
What the automated audit found
3rule violations
3elements failing
3elements affected
Automated scan is a floor, not a ceiling. It catches roughly 35% of WCAG issues; a screen reader user hits more. This kill test asks a different question: do the failures the agent finds actually break the journey for a real person? Anu verifies each one with VoiceOver next.
sbi.co.in landing, captured by headless Chromium, 1440 × 900, 2026-08-23
Findings, ranked by severity
serious
Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes
axe · aria-prohibited-attr · 1 element · landing
Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes. WCAG 2A. Deque rule reference.
target: .spinner
<div class="spinner" aria-label="Loading"></div>
critical
Delayed refresh under 20 hours must not be used
axe · meta-refresh · 1 element · landing
Delayed refresh under 20 hours must not be used. WCAG 2A, WCAG 221. Deque rule reference.
target: meta[http-equiv="refresh"]
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=https://sbi.bank.in/">
moderate
All page content should be inside a landmark (header, nav, main, footer)
axe · region · 1 element · landing
All page content should be contained by landmarks. (WCAG mapping not surfaced by axe). Deque rule reference.
target: #myModal
<div id="myModal" class="modal" style="display: flex;">
Harness · Playwright 1.48 with @axe-core/playwright 4.10, headless Chromium, viewport 1440×900, User-Agent AccessibilityKillTestBot/0.1. Full JSON report at axe-reports/sbi.json. Rerun with node harness/run.mjs sbi.