# CON-ART-003 — The consent artifact must be legible

> The artifact must be readable at the resolution supplied — cropped, blurred, or truncated evidence does not establish consent.

- **Rule ID:** CON-ART-003
- **Layer:** Consent flow (`CONSENT_FLOW`)
- **Checks:** `consent artifact`
- **Severity:** HIGH — Rejected by at least one carrier or provider, and a common cause of failure at the rest.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** AI vision over a consent artifact (screenshot, scan, MMS media)
- **Fix type:** Supply evidence only you hold
- **Required by:** TCR, Twilio
- **Applies:** Applies to every 10DLC registration.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/consent-flow/con-art-003/

## Why this rule exists

A reviewer who cannot read your disclosure treats it as absent, so an illegible screenshot fails the same way a missing disclosure does, while looking to you like the requirement was met. This is a silent failure mode: the brand believes it supplied evidence and cannot understand the rejection.

## How to fix it

Re-capture at full width with the disclosure text readable without zooming. Capture the whole consent block rather than cropping tightly to the checkbox, and avoid photographing a screen with a phone — screenshot it directly.

## Notes

whenUnreadable is FAIL, against the default, because illegibility IS the defect this rule tests — returning UNCLEAR would make the rule unable to ever fail. Only the user can fix it: they must re-capture the artifact themselves, since we cannot reach their consent surface.