As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly draft an accessibility statement for your UK website.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

15 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsA free chat interface can produce a first draft, while a specialist review may be needed for a serious or disputed compliance issue.

If this goes wrong, your statement may promise accessibility that the site does not provide, leaving visitors without a usable alternative and your organisation with a complaint to handle.

What to actually do

Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.
Use a tool built for this
Second choice

Do it yourself

The distant third

A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

How to actually do it

Open the current GOV.UK guidance on accessibility statements and save the relevant page alongside your website content management system.
Gather the website address, organisation type, owner details, accessibility contact route, complaints route, known barriers, alternative access arrangements and planned fixes.
Run or collect an accessibility check of the live website, including any manual or assistive technology testing, and record which findings are confirmed rather than suspected.
Paste the supplied prompt into an AI chatbot and replace every bracketed slot with your confirmed information, leaving unknown items marked as unknown.
Compare every factual statement in the draft against the live website, test records, contact inbox and improvement plan, then remove any claim that cannot be evidenced.
Ask a colleague who knows the service to test the reporting and alternative-access instructions, then correct any broken links, wrong contact details or unclear routes.
Publish the checked statement in an easy-to-find place on the website and send any serious legal or compliance uncertainty to a solicitor or accessibility specialist.

Prompt

Draft an accessibility statement for my UK website using only the information I provide and the current GOV.UK guidance I link below. Do not claim that the website complies with any standard unless the supplied testing evidence supports that claim. Do not invent accessibility barriers, dates, contact details, service levels, legal duties or remediation plans. Clearly separate confirmed facts from items I still need to check. Use plain British English and headings for: accessibility status, known issues, content or services that are not accessible, alternatives for accessing the service, reporting accessibility problems, complaints or escalation, and planned improvements. Ask concise questions before drafting if essential information is missing.

Organisation type: [public body, private business, charity or other]
Website address: [URL]
Website or service owner: [name or role]
Accessibility testing completed: [tools, manual checks, assistive technology checks and dates]
Confirmed accessibility problems: [list or none confirmed]
Content or services excluded from the current testing: [details]
Alternative ways to access affected content or services: [details]
Accessibility contact email or form: [details]
Complaints or escalation route: [details]
Planned fixes and target dates: [details]
Relevant GOV.UK guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/making-your-website-or-app-accessible-and-published-an-accessibility-statement

Return the draft first, followed by a short checklist of factual claims and missing evidence that I must verify before publishing. This is not professional advice. Flag any issue that needs a solicitor or accessibility specialist rather than deciding it yourself.

Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

AI cannot test the live website reliably across its pages, devices, browsers and assistive technologies.
AI cannot know which accessibility problems your users actually encounter unless you provide testing evidence or user feedback.
AI cannot take responsibility for an inaccurate compliance claim or for failing to provide a workable alternative route.
AI cannot decide the legal significance of an unusual service, exemption or unresolved complaint without the relevant facts and professional judgement.
This is not professional advice. A serious compliance dispute needs a solicitor, and technical accessibility findings may need an accessibility specialist.

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, verification cost and context depth.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

Axis	Score (0–2)
Output	2
Inputs	1
Verification	1
Liability	1
Effort delta	2
Total	7 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI write an accessibility statement?: Yes, it can draft the structure and wording from your website details, testing evidence and improvement plans. It cannot supply reliable evidence about accessibility problems or take responsibility for the published statement.
What should be in a UK website accessibility statement?: It normally needs to explain the accessibility status of the site, known problems, available alternatives, how to report an issue and how complaints can be escalated. The exact content depends on your organisation, service and current evidence, so check the relevant GOV.UK guidance.
Can I publish an AI-generated accessibility statement?: You can use AI for the wording, but check every claim against the live website, accessibility testing and the contact routes before publishing. You remain responsible if the statement is inaccurate or does not offer a workable way to get help.
Do I need a solicitor for an accessibility statement?: Not every routine draft needs solicitor review, but a serious complaint, disputed legal duty, unusual exemption or significant risk should go to a solicitor. This is not professional advice, and an accessibility specialist may also be needed to assess the site itself.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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