New Compliance Platform Option for Enterprise Accessibility Service Bundles
Many enterprise accessibility companies bundle their in-house software into their service packages. Most of their platforms provide clients with the ability to schedule scans, view scan results, track issues, and interact with their accessibility data.
This is included in the overall engagement, sometimes as a visible line item and sometimes folded into the total price.
You might see these types of contracts from companies like:
- Level Access
- Allyant
- AudioEye
- TPGI
- Deque
And others.
For those clients who want more features and flexibility, there is now an alternative worth considering.
What Bundled Platforms Typically Offer
Most platforms that come with large accessibility engagements are built around automated scanning. They crawl your site, flag issues that can be detected programmatically, and display the results in a dashboard. This is useful, and automated scanning has a place in an accessibility program.
Where it gets more limited is on the actual audit side. The most important accessibility findings come from manual expert evaluation, and, unless recently updated, many bundled platforms were not designed with tracking full WCAG conformance as their core focus. This means the audit results might be worked through in a spreadsheet while the platform centers on automated scan data.
An Alternative Built Around Audits
Accessibility Tracker is premised upon tracking every single issue identified in your audit report. You upload your audit results, track each issue through remediation, and maintain a clear picture of your WCAG conformance, compliance, and progress over time.
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This gives organizations a new option when evaluating or renewing an accessibility engagement.
If the bundled platform is either 1) missing features that Tracker has and/or 2) is priced higher than you’d like, you now have the option of choosing Tracker as your platform of choice.
This has several benefits:
- Your platform and data remain independent of your service provider.
- You can lower the cost of your services bundle (a good reason to ask about the value assigned to any proprietary platform or software ahead of time).
- You simplify issue tracking and reduce hours vs. currently bouncing between scan fixes and spreadsheet tracking.
- Your entire accessibility workflow can be centralized into a single online hub. Comments, notes, remediation, validation, and documentation are now in one place.
A Simple Conversation
This is not about switching accessibility companies. It is about tailoring the engagement to what you actually need.
If you value a company’s audit expertise, their remediation guidance, and their WCAG knowledge, those are the things worth paying for. The platform is a separate question, and now you have a choice.
When evaluating a new engagement or renewing an existing one, it is worth understanding what portion of the cost is tied to the platform and whether a dedicated, audit-focused tool would serve you better.
It may open up room in the budget, or it may simply give you a platform better suited to how your team works.
Flexibility Without Disruption
You keep your accessibility company for what they do well. You choose your platform independently based on what fits your workflow. And because Accessibility Tracker is vendor-neutral, you maintain full continuity even if you switch providers down the road.
It is a new option in a space where options have been limited. You can watch demos and put several features to the test by signing up for a free plan at AccessibilityTracker.com.
