# External Accessibility Audit Engagement Packet

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`.