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External Accessibility Audit Engagement Packet

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Status: DRAFT TEMPLATE — no external engagement executed; counterparty TBD.

Corrected 2026-06-12: an earlier revision of this packet claimed an engaged consultant ("AccessForge Accessibility Audit Cooperative") with an executed SOW. That counterparty was invented and the contracts were self-authored; no external engagement exists. See V5/REMEDIATION_2026-06-12.md.

This packet defines the external consultant audit needed for the Section 72 accessibility launch gate. The engagement record lives at V5/legal/accessibility-consultant-engagement.json; the implementation exposes the active engagement as runtime launch-gate state and does not record a signed audit report until one is actually received.

Engagement#

  • Engagement id: v5-a11y-external-audit-2026-05.
  • Consultant: [VENDOR TBD].
  • Statement of work executed: NOT executed — draft template only.
  • Fieldwork window: [DATES TBD upon execution].
  • Contract artifacts tracked by legal (all unexecuted draft templates): V5/legal/contracts/v5-a11y-external-audit-sow-2026-05.md, V5/legal/contracts/v5-a11y-audit-dpa-2026-05.md, and V5/legal/contracts/v5-a11y-audit-mutual-nda-2026-05.md.

Scope#

  • Subtitle and caption customization: size, background, color, weight, border, speaker color coding, SFX captions, and period-radio captions.
  • Color modes: Deutera, Proton, Trit, and monochrome palettes for UI and gameplay cue remaps.
  • High-contrast UI and Mind Palace shape-coded visualization.
  • Combat audio cue customization with spatial markers and visual companions.
  • Per-cell difficulty, adaptive aim assist, driving assist, camera comfort, and photosensitivity policies.
  • Menu text-to-speech across all 16 launch language packs and opt-in speech-to-text for voice chat.
  • Per-input remapping and one-handed schemes for PS5 Access Controller and Xbox Adaptive Controller.

Consultant Deliverables#

  • Settings matrix review against platform certification expectations.
  • Assistive-technology playthrough notes for all six cells.
  • Issue log with severity, affected surface, owner, and release recommendation.
  • Signed final accessibility audit report.

Release Gate#

The runtime gate lives in UV5_Accessibility_QA::BuildExternalAuditEngagement. bSignedAuditRequiredForRelease is true and bSignedAuditReceived stays false until production attaches the signed consultant report. Note (2026-06-12): the builder's Status = Engaged, bStatementOfWorkExecuted, and bConsultantOnboarded fields are hardcoded struct defaults with no engagement behind them (audit category 2, fabricated always-true readiness gates); they must not be treated as evidence that a consultant exists until a real engagement is executed and recorded in V5/legal/accessibility-consultant-engagement.json.