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Compliance Standards & Sources
ACRE does not invent compliance requirements. Every determination is grounded in published U.S. laws, regulations, technical standards, and agency guidance. This page is generated directly from ACRE's source registry — when a new source is added, it appears here automatically. Explore the 122 sources across 16 categories that power ACRE's checks.
Registry: ACRE Legal Source Registry (ACRE-SR-US-WEB-2026.06-v2) · generated 2026-06-11T00:00:00.000Z · United States web, mobile-web, document, privacy, security, consumer-protection, and sector-specific website compliance signals
How ACRE verifies findings
1. ACRE collects real evidence
ACRE crawls the live site with a real browser engine and captures verifiable evidence — DOM snapshots, screenshots, response headers, detected text, and timestamps — for every page it can reach.
2. Evidence is matched to a rule
Each observation is evaluated against ACRE's rule library. Deterministic checks (machine-confirmed) carry direct evidence; heuristic checks are flagged for human verification rather than asserted as fact.
3. Rules cite an authoritative source
Every rule references an entry in the source registry below — a specific law, regulation, technical standard, or agency guidance — so a finding can be traced to the requirement it implements.
4. Confidence is reported honestly
ACRE separates 'verified by ACRE', 'human verification required', and 'insufficient evidence'. A low-confidence finding with real evidence is never presented as a confirmed legal conclusion.
How findings are mapped to sources
Each automated check declares the framework it implements and the registry source it cites. Open any source card below to see the exact checks mapped to it. Findings carry a reference status of mapped, partially mapped, or needs source mapping so reviewers always know how strongly a finding is tied to a published requirement.
Which categories sources belong to
Sources are organized by compliance category — accessibility, privacy, security, consumer protection, and more. Use the category filters below to see how many sources underpin each area of ACRE's analysis.
Why you can trust ACRE's determinations
Findings are evidence-backed, traceable to an authoritative source, and conservative by design — ACRE will not certify compliance without sufficient coverage and evidence. This catalog is the single source of truth; nothing on this page is hardcoded.
During every audit ACRE evaluates the full source library and determines which standards apply to the website before generating findings.
Source library
122
Authoritative sources
25
Frameworks
63
Automated checks
16
Categories
8
PDF references
Showing 1–3 of 122 matching sources.
WCAG 2.2 Recommendation
W3C
Technical Standard published by W3C.
FTC Privacy and Security Business Guidance
Federal Trade Commission
Agency Guidance published by Federal Trade Commission.
FTC Dot Com Disclosures
Federal Trade Commission
Agency Guidance published by Federal Trade Commission.