Length: 52 min
Annual Continuous Coverage
You understand the value of manual, human audits for accessibility conformance and usability. But you’ve also experienced the pain that comes from the traditional, once-a-year audit/fix cycle:
- Mountains of bugs that need to be triaged and delegated
- Inconsistent findings from audit to audit
- Stale results
- Tacked-on automations that miss too many bugs that don’t get fixed
What if you could get manual audits as frequently as you update code and detect real bugs as soon as developers create them? You can! With Evergreen Audits you know where you stand at all times.
Expertise & technology you can trust
We believe two things:
- Humans are the best judges of whether humans can use an interface.
- There is more the machines can do to help us validate accessibility.
What this allows us to do is:
- Deliver expert WCAG audits of your web properties
- Repeat those audits as often as makes sense, from once per day to as frequently as every time your developers merge code
At Assistiv Labs, we’ve layered targeted automation onto our accessibility cloud infrastructure, enabling our human auditors to re-validate their work on-demand.
Evergreen Audits start with people, but the leap in value we’re able to provide is enabled by the smart application of unique technology including:
- Custom, accessibility-first end-to-end testing library
- Validation of actual screen reader output
- Machine vision
Audit, automate, integrate
We provide a different kind of value, not just faster or more efficient, but deeper and more useful. We’re able to do that because at the same time our experts conduct their manual audit based on our proprietary methodology we write custom automated tests that provide double the WCAG coverage of heuristics-based scanners. Once the tests are running we triage results—refining them into high-value, actionable inputs to your software development lifecycle (SDLC).
| Static Code Analysis (e.g., axe-core) | Manual Conformance Testing (e.g., audits) | Evergreen Accessibility Audits |
|---|---|---|
| 🚫 Limited WCAG coverage | ✅ Broadest WCAG coverage | ✅ Broadest WCAG coverage |
| ✅ Fast | 🚫 Slow | ✅ Fast |
| ✅ Integrated into SDLC | 🚫 Outside SDLC | ✅ Integrated into SDLC |
| 🚫 Noisy, overwhelming results | ✅ High signal, but often inconsistent, results | ✅ High signal, low noise results |
Accessibility-first end-to-end testing webinar
For an in-depth explanation of the technology behind our Evergreen Audits service, watch this webinar by Weston & Nick.
All signal, no noise
Using our proprietary technology platform, the results you get from us are all signal, no noise. If we tell you about a bug, it’s almost certainly something you’ll want to prioritize fixing. No more debates about whether an audit result merits the dev team’s attention.
“We love the quality of signal we get from Assistiv Labs. Their end-to-end testing service gives us peace of mind that we are always improving the accessibility of our experience.”
~Jiaxin Zheng, Technical Program Manager for Accessibility at Asana
Transform your accessibility approach
Among the other benefits of our approach, receiving immediate feedback on nearly every type of accessibility regression can singlehandedly change your organization’s culture around accessibility work by creating systems that move you closer to the ideal of continuous accessibility. Ready to learn more? Get in touch.
Image courtesy of Devon Persing.