You can auto generate a VPAT by uploading your accessibility audit report to a platform that supports AI VPAT generation, updating issue status as your team remediates, entering product details, and letting AI populate the VPAT based on your current audit data. This process takes seconds instead of the hours required for manual VPAT creation.
What VPAT Auto Generation Requires
VPAT auto generation starts with an accessibility audit report in Excel spreadsheet format. The audit report needs structured data—columns for WCAG success criteria, issue descriptions, locations, severity, and status. Most accessibility companies already provide audit reports in this format.
The platform extracts your audit data and maps it to WCAG success criteria. When you’re ready to generate a VPAT, the platform knows which success criteria have open issues, which are validated as fixed, and which weren’t part of your audit scope.
AI reads this data and populates the appropriate VPAT sections. Success criteria with validated fixes get marked as “Supports.” Success criteria with open issues get marked as “Does Not Support” or “Partially Supports” depending on the issue severity. The platform generates explanatory remarks based on your audit findings.
The Auto Generation Process
Step 1: Upload Your Audit Report
Upload your accessibility audit report to Accessibility Tracker. The platform extracts issue data including WCAG success criteria, descriptions, locations, and current status. This creates your baseline accessibility data.
Step 2: Update Issue Status
As your team remediates issues, update their status in the platform. Mark issues as in progress, completed, or validated. The VPAT generation reflects your current remediation status, not your original audit findings.
This means you can generate VPATs at different project stages. Generate one showing initial conformance status. Generate another after completing high-priority fixes. Generate a final ACR after full remediation and validation.
Step 3: Enter VPAT Details
Provide the product information required by the VPAT template—product name, version, contact information, evaluation methods used, and scope of the evaluation. This metadata populates the VPAT header sections.
Step 4: Generate the VPAT
Trigger AI VPAT generation. Accessibility Tracker processes your audit data and creates a populated VPAT document. Generation typically takes seconds to complete.
The AI maps each WCAG success criterion to your audit findings. It determines conformance levels based on issue status. It generates remarks explaining why criteria are supported, partially supported, or not supported.
Step 5: Manual Review
Review the generated VPAT for accuracy and completeness. AI makes mistakes, so expert review ensures the VPAT correctly represents your product’s accessibility status. This manual layer transforms the AI-generated VPAT into an Accessibility Conformance Report.
Why Auto Generation Saves Time
Manual VPAT creation takes hours. You review the audit report, evaluate each WCAG success criterion, determine conformance levels, write explanatory remarks, and format everything properly. The process requires accessibility expertise and detailed knowledge of your audit findings.
AI takes care of the time-consuming work instantly. It maps audit data to success criteria, determines conformance levels based on issue status, and generates appropriate remarks. What took hours now takes seconds.
The time savings scale with project complexity. Organizations managing multiple products, each requiring VPATs, save substantial time across their portfolio. Instead of spending days creating VPATs manually, teams generate them on demand.
Hybrid Automation Approach
VPAT auto generation uses hybrid automation—AI automation layered with human expert review. The AI automates to the greatest extent possible, then human experts manually review and make necessary corrections.
This two-layer approach provides both speed and accuracy. AI handles repetitive data mapping and document population. Human experts ensure the VPAT accurately represents conformance status and meets buyer requirements.
The hybrid approach matters because VPATs serve as legal documents for procurement. Buyers rely on VPATs to evaluate whether products meet accessibility requirements. Accuracy and completeness are essential.
Who Benefits Most
Organizations creating their own ACRs benefit significantly. Large technology companies with accessibility teams managing ACRs for multiple products can generate VPATs on demand rather than manually creating each one.
Accessibility service providers gain operational efficiency. Instead of spending billable hours filling in VPATs, they generate them automatically and focus expert time on review and validation.
Organizations responding to procurement requests can provide VPATs faster. When a potential buyer requests accessibility documentation, you generate a current VPAT reflecting your latest remediation status instead of working from an outdated manual VPAT.
Current VPAT Editions Available
AI VPAT generation in Accessibility Tracker currently supports the WCAG edition. Additional editions including Section 508, EU, and INT are in development to provide complete VPAT coverage.
The WCAG edition covers the success criteria most commonly required for procurement and compliance. Organizations can generate VPATs meeting buyer requirements while additional editions are developed.
Platform Requirements
Auto generation requires a platform supporting this workflow. Accessibility Tracker extracts audit data, tracks remediation status, maps data to WCAG criteria, and integrates AI for document generation.
The audit-based platform designed for tracking WCAG conformance provides the foundation for VPAT auto generation. The same data tracking your remediation progress powers VPAT creation.
Getting Started
If you need VPATs for your products, Accessibility Tracker offers AI VPAT generation with paid plans starting at $19/month. Upload your audit report, track your remediation workflow, and generate VPATs on demand as your project progresses.
The combination of automation speed and expert review accuracy makes VPAT creation practical at scale. Organizations can generate documentation on demand, respond to procurement requests faster, and reduce the time spent on manual document creation.
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