How the reading works, and what it does not claim

Read this before you hand a reading to anyone. It is a reading of the text you paste; it is not a compliance result and it does not certify anything.

What the method measures

The reading looks for a phrase that belongs to a requirement in the text you paste. It reports one of two things for each of the 429 requirements held here:

• mentioned in your text: a phrase specific to that requirement appears in your text
• not mentioned in your text: no such phrase appears

Those are the only two readings. It does not say evidenced, addressed, compliant, met, gap or fail, because a phrase appearing does not show that a control is in place.

The reader's own words

Where a phrase matched, the row quotes the sentence from your document that carried it. That quote is the whole of the evidence behind the row: you can read it and disagree with it.

What it does not claim

• It does not rule on compliance. A quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met.
• It does not read a document that does not exist. It reads the text you give it.
• It does not know your registration groups or your service types. Where a requirement is conditional, the requirement page says what it is conditional on, and the reading covers every requirement held.
• It is not legal advice, and it does not certify anything for the Commission, an auditor or a funder.
• A short paste proves little. A document that restates a policy heading does not carry the records a clause asks for, and the reading says so for that clause.

Where it runs

The reading runs in your browser. Nothing leaves it unless you save a reading to your account, and the browser makes no request to another origin while it reads. The requirement data is served from the same host as the page.

One record drives every output

The same requirement record builds the pages, the open data, the evidence sheet the reading exports and the requirement page for each clause, so a line you see in a reading carries the same clause code and the same evidence as the page it came from.