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Write a multi-year accessibility plan and fill its annual action plan from your audits.

Goal

Produce the multi-year plan and the current year's action plan that a public body is required to publish.

Preconditions

  • The workspace is on Pro or Enterprise. Other plans can read but not create.
  • For filling the annual plan: at least one audit with evaluated criteria.

Steps

  1. Go to Operations > Accessibility plans and click New multi-year plan.
  2. Set the period. It defaults to three years from today, which is the legal maximum; a longer one is refused.
  3. Choose the document language. This is the language the plan is written in, not the language of your interface. More can be added later.
  4. Write the fourteen sections. Each shows the text of the arrêté that requires it. Use Suggest content on any section to start from a structure instead of a blank field, then replace the [à compléter] blanks with your own answers.
  5. Under Annual action plans, click Add a year. The dates are proposed for you and tile the multi-year plan without overlapping. You are not asked for a language, an organisation or a referent: a year inherits all three from its multi-year plan.
  6. Open the year, click Choose audits, and pick the audits it should draw on.
  7. Click Fill from my audits. Failing criteria become actions, worst impact first. Assign owners and due dates. Add organisational actions is a separate button for the six things the regulation asks of the body itself, whatever any audit says; the audit button stays disabled until at least one audit is linked.
  8. Publish the multi-year plan. That is the only thing you publish: every year it contains goes public with it, so check them first. Copy the public address, or download the file to host on your own site.

Verify success

  • The section counter reads "14 of 14 sections written". A section still holding a blank does not count.
  • Each year's period sits inside the multi-year plan's period.
  • The published address opens and renders the document, with each year folded into its own expandable block.

After publishing

Editing a published plan is allowed and changes only what the next publication will say. Sections you have changed since then are marked Changed since publication, and the publish panel names how many, so you can see what a refresh would actually alter. The public copy stays as it was until you press Refresh the publication.

Common pitfalls

  • Publishing with blanks left. Refused by design, and the message names which sections. That is the guard working, not an error.
  • Expecting the download to be the same as the public link. The downloaded file is what discharges the legal obligation, because publication must happen on your own domain. The CheckFox address is a convenience and a canonical source.
  • Looking for a way to publish a year on its own. There is none, by design. An annual plan is part of one document, not a document of its own: its actions are public on the multi-year plan's page. Publishing the multi-year plan publishes every year in it, drafts included.
  • Forgetting the statement link. Under the RGAA, the accessibility statement has to point at the multi-year plan. See procedures / create a statement.
  • Removing a language. It stops being published but your text is kept and returns if you add it back.

Last reviewed: 2026-09-28