The March 15, 2025 release of Accessibility Tracker is only 9 days away and there’s no other software on the market like it. A quick intro: Tracker makes the remediation phase of your accessibility project easier, faster, and more intelligent – saving time through organization and focus – and let’s now spotlight two big reasons why.
Here are the two headliner features of Accessibility Tracker:
- You can prioritize accessibility issues using one of our two prioritization formulas
- You can easily track remediation of issues completed and validated
Of course, there are more great features, but we highlight these two because they strike at the two requests we get the most from clients:
- What issues do we start fixing first?
- How can we track what issues have been fixed and what issues haven’t?
On the second question, we currently use Google Sheets for most projects and it works fine, but there are some drawbacks including the reliance on Google accounts and the difficulty in maintaining consistency across large teams. Some other limitations of spreadsheet-based tracking include:
- Limited visualization options for progress tracking and reporting
- No built-in accessibility expertise or guidance when prioritizing issues
- Challenges with version control when multiple people are editing simultaneously
How Our Tracker Solves Problems
Accessibility Tracker was built specifically to address the current friction problem in accessibility workflows. It enables all organizations to have a centralized hub where their team and our team (or another technical accessibility expert) can work in tandem as they march through the accessibility issues in their audit report.
The focus is on the audit and the communication is right to the point with less emails, messages, Zoom meetings, and back forth.
As you work through the audit report, your team fixes a set amount of issues. Let’s say 20 of 100 issues.
Then, the auditor reviews those fixes.
Let’s also say, 18 of the issues have been fixed correctly. This means 90% of the initial issues that your team has worked on will be validated as completed. The remaining two issues will be marked as uncompleted with a notes column that enables the technical accessibility expert to tell your team exactly what is missing and/or why an issue still exists.
Don’t Forget Sorting
And don’t forget – Tracker gives your team the ability to sort the audit report by one of two formulas (created in-house by Accessible.org) before you start making fixes. The formulas are:
- Risk Formula
- Impact Formula
Risk is for clients who are concerned with website accessibility lawsuits. The risk formula is data driven and based on the most commonly claimed issues in real complaints filed in courts throughout the U.S. by the most active plaintiffs’ law firms. Thus, here you’re sorting by the accessibility issues that present the most legal risk.
Impact is for clients who want to start with the accessibility issues that are likely to be the most problematic and create an outright barrier or a significant degradation in experience.
For impact, we created a weighted scoring 100 point system that sorted all success criteria in 2.0 AA, 2.1 AA, and 2.2 AA to give clients a way to sort accessibility issues by impact. The formula is based on five key factors that reflect how significantly each success criterion affects real users.
Both formulas are inside Tracker which means you can start working through your audit report intelligently.
Getting Started
Ready to move beyond spreadsheets and work through audits more intelligently? We’re only 9 days away from the official release, but you can still contact us if you’re ready to lock down your license of Tracker.
And we’d love you to be a client, but you don’t have to be one to purchase Tracker – it’s available to everyone.
