Audit Stories

Audit User Stories for Inclusion

Review an existing set of user stories and identify where disability and diverse abilities have been overlooked — then add the missing criteria without creating separate accessibility tickets.

Process

Step 1: Gather Stories

Collect the user stories to audit. This could be a sprint backlog, a feature's full story set, or an epic.

Step 2: Check Each Story

Using inclusive-user-stories, review each story's acceptance criteria for:

• Keyboard operability
• Screen reader support
• Visual accessibility (contrast, colour independence, zoom)
• Motor accessibility (target size, timing, precision)
• Cognitive accessibility (plain language, error recovery, undo)

Flag any story where one or more of these are missing.

Step 3: Check for Assumption Bias

Using edge-case-identification, for each story ask:

• What input method does this assume?
• What sensory ability does this assume?
• What cognitive capacity does this assume?
• What context does this assume?
• What "edge cases" have been dismissed that are daily reality for some users?

Step 4: Add Missing Criteria

For each flagged story, write the specific acceptance criteria that need to be added. Don't create separate stories — add directly to the existing ones.

Output

Deliver an audit report:

1. Summary — number of stories reviewed, number with gaps, most common gap type
2. Story-by-story findings — each story with its missing criteria listed
3. Added criteria — the specific acceptance criteria to add to each story, ready to paste into the backlog
4. Patterns — recurring gaps that suggest a systemic issue (e.g., "no story in this sprint mentions keyboard access")