What is an accessibility audit?
Did you know that many disabled users encounter barriers online, with 69% abandoning websites that they find difficult to use?*
Accessibility is critical to ensuring that disabled users can access and interact with websites and applications without any barriers. The first step to achieving this goal is accessibility audits, a valuable tool that evaluates the compliance of your digital product with established accessibility standards.
Learn more about what an accessibility audit is, its benefits, and how to conduct one in our latest blog article.
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An accessibility audit is the process where a team of burned-out accessibility specialists review a site or app, listing all of the accessibility & usability problems (possibly not for the first time). Then they write this up in a report which lists all of the WCAG criteria which are failing, because that’s all the business people care about. There are also Executive and Technical summaries. These are mostly useful for teams when they want to ask the specialists “Do we really have to fix this one?” Or the classic: “what’s the least we can get away with fixing and still pass?” The results of the audit are then used to populate an accessibility statement, which often says “Yeah, we know these things are wrong, but we pinky-swear to fix them by year+11”