An Accessibility Conformance Report tells a procurement team how a digital product measures against accessibility standards. It lists each applicable success criterion and marks whether the product supports it, partially supports it, or does not support it. For a buyer, this is the document that turns a vendor’s accessibility claims into something reviewable. Procurement teams … Read more
Conformance tracking software logs accessibility issues from audit reports, assigns them to team members, tracks remediation progress, and generates reports that document WCAG 2.1 AA work over time. It replaces spreadsheets and scattered ticketing with a single source of truth for every issue across every project. The core function is issue management. Audit findings import … Read more
AI tools fit into accessibility auditing as efficiency aids that support human auditors, not as replacements for manual evaluation. An audit is a human process. A trained auditor conducts screen reader testing, keyboard testing, visual inspection, and code inspection against WCAG success criteria. AI assists around the edges of that work, speeding up documentation, explanation, … Read more
The creating ACR process starts with a full accessibility evaluation of the product and ends with a completed document that reports WCAG conformance for every applicable success criterion. An Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) is the filled-in version of a VPAT, and it is only as accurate as the evaluation behind it. Scope comes first. The … Read more
A scan cannot replace an audit. Automated scans detect approximately 25% of accessibility issues by checking HTML, CSS, and ARIA attributes against a fixed set of rules. The remaining 75% requires human evaluation, which is what an audit provides. Scans are pattern matchers. They flag missing alt attributes, empty form labels, and other code-level issues … Read more