Web Accessibility Monitoring Tools Roundup

When it comes to accessibility testing, deploying automated accessibility testing tools is the first step any business takes into consideration. Automated testing is quicker and provides a holistic overview of the website’s health in terms of accessibility efforts.

What is web accessibility monitoring?

 The process of crawling a website with hundreds or thousands of pages using an automated crawler and then compiling the results in a dashboard with graphs and charts is called accessibility scanning and monitoring. Generally, only large websites with thousands of pages opt for this kind of service to maintain a health check of their accessibility efforts.

For small websites with few pages, it is recommended to use free browser extensions or open-source accessibility tools to track the progress of accessibility efforts.

Is accessibility scanning and monitoring costly?

 A few years back, only big players provided accessibility monitoring services as a standalone offering. However, accessibility scanning and monitoring have become cheaper and more affordable due to multiple players offering the service as a Software as a Service (SaaS) based offering. Some plans start as low as $100 per month for a few thousand pages.

Can accessibility scanning be performed for the screens behind the login?

Yes, most enterprise accessibility scanning and monitoring platforms do provide a method to script and add login credentials so that the crawler can access pages that are protected behind the login. We can also provide scripts where the crawler can perform necessary actions like filling forms, triggering modals, processing payment checkouts, and more.

Accessibility Scanning and Monitoring Platforms

A curated list of Enterprise accessibility tools that will enable automation of web accessibility testing across the website, generate reports , create visual dashboards & help in optimizing overall accessibility progress across the organization.

• AAArdvark
  Manage more accessibility projects with ease using an all-in-one testing, monitoring, issue management, and reporting platform. 
• Accessibility Checker by Equalize Digital
  An automated accessibility scanning plugin to help your WordPress website become and stay accessible. Dynamically scan, monitor and report on the accessibility status of your website in real-time as content, themes, and plugins are updated.
• Accessibility Cloud
  Test & monitor your websites and documents against WCAG 2.1 and EN 301 549. Accessibility Cloud offers automatic and manual accessibility tests, monitoring and compliance management within the same powerful platform.
• Accessibility Management Platform by Level Access
  AMP is your organizational command center that solves the complexity and challenges of enterprise-wide management so you can quickly and efficiently build, test, and maintain accessible software. With AMP, you can facilitate and organize all aspects of successful digital accessibility initiatives.
• Accessibility Scanner by UserWay:
  The UserWay Accessibility Scanner can check your website for WCAG conformance. Ensure full legal compliance with the most comprehensive accessibility scanner and monitoring service available. UserWay’s scanning and monitoring service performs multiple concurrent scans of your site to ensure complete coverage across all resolutions. The multi-pronged approach ensures you can fully remediate every single accessibility violation on your site without the risk of any oversights.
• Accessible Web RAMP 
  RAMP helps teams discover, understand, and remediate web accessibility issues
• ARC: TPG’s Automated Accessibility Monitoring Tool
  ARC is a next-generation SaaS monitoring and reporting tool built on AWS architecture. Track your progress towards greater accessibility with ARC’s dashboards and data visualization tools. Compare performance across your domains and projects. Get immediate, actionable insights into the underlying causes of issues. Our fully accessible solution is future proof, with flexible rules engines ensuring ongoing support for standards and best practice.
• axeMonitor:
  Dynamically scan, monitor and report on the accessibility status of your entire site. Pinpoint improvements or what’s declined over time and drill-down to perform root cause analysis.
• BrowserStack Accessibility Testing 
  As an industry-leading web and app testing platform, their A11y solutions include a Chrome extension, automated accessibility testing, and an intuitive reporting dashboard for compliance reports and insights.  It is one of the best-in-class tools for enterprises. 
  • The Chrome extension supports three issue detection methods: the Workflow scanner, Assisted Tests, and Screen readers.
  • By leveraging the BrowserStack SDK, teams can effortlessly integrate automated A11y testing into their routine builds, with scans automatically initiated upon identifying DOM changes. 
  • Their reporting dashboard is a central hub for monitoring all accessibility reports generated through the Workflow Scanner, Assisted Test, and Website Scanner. 
  • Teams can easily target WCAG 2.0 or 2.1 to monitor compliance and get reports at scheduled intervals to track accessibility issues and fix them.
• CX Score
  The CX Score Accessibility Test Automation Suite has DevOps CI/CD and Ticketing System Integrations for Dev environments, Functional test integrations for Accessibility regression tests, Scheduling, Dashboard, Health score Monitoring Capabilities.
• Equalify
  Equalify ensures websites are accessible to people with disabilities, delivering unbeatable scanning and support to every user.
• OzART by AccessibilityOz
  Automated, easy, effective accessibility reporting
  AccessibilityOz is proud to announce the release of OzART — an innovative accessibility reporting tool that makes it easy to comprehensively report on, and maximise, your site’s accessibility.OzART simplifies the task of making your site accessible according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG2) because it searches and reports defects in categories e.g. images, page titles, content and headings. This makes it easy for your team to work through fixing the defects, logically and systematically. OzART goes beyond mere compliance requirements, setting you apart from your competition and minimizing legal risk.
• Pope Tech
  The power of WAVE, at the scale you need.
  Every year, thousands of designers, developers and content owners test millions of individual web pages with the free WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool, launched by WebAIM in 2001.
• Site Scanner by Evinced
  Discover accessibility issues across your entire website or QA/staging, study changes over time and monitor your overall compliance level.
• Siteimprove’s web accessibility tools
  Siteimprove’s web accessibility tools enable you to easily follow and adhere to international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) across all conformance levels. Remove barriers that damage the user experience and safeguard your brand reputation in order to create an inclusive digital presence for all.
• SortSite
  SortSite is a one-click web site testing tool used by federal agencies, Fortune 100 corporations and independent consultancies. The tool is available as a desktop application for Mac or Windows, and is also available as a web application. Each page is checked against more than 1300 standards based checkpoints like accessibility, broken links, compatibility, SEO, web standards and usability.
  

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