Reporting channels & reporter experience
How this is scored
The intake side: how a reporter actually submits — web form, anonymous dialog, phone/voice, languages, accessibility — and whether anonymity survives first contact.
0 — A web form that is an email in disguise: no anonymous route, no way to reach the reporter afterwards.
3 — An anonymous form exists but the dialogue ends there — no secured mailbox for follow-up questions, few languages, desktop-only.
5 — Anonymous two-way dialog via a protected mailbox, a usable set of languages, mobile-friendly; voice or phone intake missing or an add-on.
8 — Multiple channels (web, voice message or hotline, QR entry points), broad language coverage with translation support, accessibility considered, and the anonymous dialog is first-class rather than bolted on.
10 — Intake engineered around the frightened reporter: every channel anonymous-capable, dozens of languages, WCAG-conscious, no app install or account required, and the vendor documents how the reporter's identity is kept out of the channel itself.
The Security Auditor
Intake is genuinely multi-channel — a live-answered hotline around the clock plus web, mail and email — with 100+ languages and per-language translation of hotline scripts, anonymous reporting switched on by default, three anonymity levels, and a two-way anonymous dialog. The hotline agent role is fenced: intake staff cannot see cases after submitting them. We found no public information on accessibility (WCAG) or on how the reporter's identity is kept out of the channel metadata itself. 1 2 5 6