A little known fact is that Accessible.org is home to one of the brightest development minds in the world.
Oh it’s true.
And this developer — we’ll just call him Khushwant — masterminded Accessibility Tracker so that it would be the ultimate digital accessibility project platform. As a result, every potential participant, manager, or leader involved in an accessibility project gets just what they need from it.
Here is a table of wins across the board.
| Role | Problem | Problem Solved | Time Saved Maybe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Managers | Coordinating teams and tracking issues | Centralized dashboard with automatic reporting | 60% reduction in admin time |
| Developers | Understanding unfamiliar accessibility issues | 5 AI tools with contextual code examples | 50% faster issue resolution |
| Accessibility Coordinators | Manual prioritization and planning | Automatic prioritization formulas | 75% reduction in planning time |
| Content Editors | Finding relevant issues among technical problems | Role-based filtering and assignment | 40% efficiency improvement |
| Compliance Officers | Creating defensible documentation | Automatic audit trails and reports | 80% reduction in documentation time |
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Anyway, we’ve got a really big show for you. It’s about 1,000 words and a lot of people have lines.
Table of Contents
Project Managers: Escaping Spreadsheets
Project managers coordinating accessibility remediation typically juggle multiple spreadsheets, email threads, and status meetings. They’re tracking hundreds of issues across different team members while trying to maintain visibility into actual progress. The traditional Excel-based approach means hours spent on administrative tasks instead of moving projects forward.
With Accessibility Tracker, project managers upload their audit report once and the platform extracts all issue data automatically. Team members update their own statuses, eliminating the bottleneck of centralized tracking. The dashboard shows real-time progress across all projects—no more asking developers for updates or manually calculating completion percentages.
Monthly progress reports generate automatically, providing documentation that project managers can share with leadership immediately. When executives ask where things stand, the answer is right there in the analytics. This efficiency gain means projects that previously took 10 weeks can be completed in 4.
Developers: AI Trains on Real Issues
Developers often receive accessibility audit reports filled with technical WCAG jargon they don’t understand. Traditional training uses generic examples that don’t match their React components or complex SPAs. When facing a keyboard trap in their actual code, they need specific guidance, not theoretical documentation.
The platform’s 5 AI tools transform this experience. Each tool comes pre-loaded with the specific audit data:
- Simplify and Explain breaks down technical issues into plain English
- Detailed Technical Answer provides code examples tailored to the exact issue
- Alternative Approaches offers different solutions when the standard fix won’t work
- WCAG Standards explains why the issue matters for users
- Custom Analysis answers specific questions about the implementation
After fixing 30 similar issues with AI guidance, developers develop pattern recognition. They start preventing accessibility issues during initial development. The knowledge sticks because they learned by fixing real problems in their own codebase.
Accessibility Coordinators: Tools Instead of Manual Work
Accessibility coordinators spend too much time on manual prioritization and spreadsheet management. They’re sorting hundreds of issues, coordinating between auditors and developers, and trying to ensure consistent implementation across multiple digital properties.
The platform’s prioritization formulas eliminate manual sorting. The Risk Factor formula automatically identifies issues most commonly cited in lawsuits, based on actual ADA website complaint data. The User Impact formula uses a 100-point scoring system to highlight barriers affecting the most users. Coordinators can instantly reorganize priorities based on organizational goals.
Managing multiple projects becomes straightforward. The unified dashboard provides strategic oversight while maintaining granular detail for tactical execution. Coordinators can identify patterns across projects and allocate resources based on actual data rather than guesswork.
Content Editors: Focused Work Within Their Expertise
Content editors working on accessibility often waste time sorting through technical issues they can’t fix. In a spreadsheet with 200 issues, finding the 40 content-related problems requires manual filtering. Design issues and code problems get mixed with content tasks, creating confusion.
Accessibility Tracker’s filtering and assignment features solve this immediately. Content editors see only their assigned issues:
- Missing alt text for images
- Improper heading structures
- Missing video captions
- Link text problems
- Reading order issues
The Simplify and Explain AI tool helps them understand why specific changes matter for users with disabilities. The comment log keeps all discussion about an issue in one place rather than scattered across emails. Content teams can clear their accessibility backlog efficiently while learning principles that prevent future issues.
Designers: Balancing Aesthetics with Accessibility
Designers retrofitting accessibility into existing visual systems face unique challenges. Color contrast failures need solutions that maintain brand identity. Focus indicators must be visible without disrupting visual design. Traditional audit reports provide measurements but little guidance on acceptable alternatives.
The platform lets designers filter for visual and design-related issues specifically. The Alternative Approaches AI tool becomes particularly valuable, offering different solutions when standard fixes conflict with design requirements. After establishing the visual solution, designers can reassign issues to developers with implementation notes, preventing the typical back-and-forth that delays design-related fixes.
Engineering Managers: Data-Driven Decision Making
Engineering managers need to balance accessibility work with feature development while providing accurate timelines to leadership. Without visibility into issue complexity and team capacity, resource allocation becomes guesswork.
The platform’s analytics provide data for informed decisions:
- Which team members are overloaded
- What types of issues take longest to resolve
- Where bottlenecks occur in the workflow
- Actual vs. estimated completion times
Progress tracking helps managers set realistic timelines and meet them. The validation tracking shows not just that issues are marked complete, but that they’ve been verified as properly fixed, preventing rework that disrupts schedules.
Compliance Officers: Documentation That Matters
Compliance officers carry the weight of legal risk. They need to demonstrate ongoing accessibility efforts and ensure their organizations meet regulatory requirements. Spreadsheets and email threads don’t provide the audit trail needed for compliance documentation.
Accessibility Tracker creates comprehensive documentation automatically. Every status change is logged. The validation process provides third-party verification of fixes. Monthly reports show consistent progress toward conformance. This documentation becomes critical for demonstrating good faith efforts in legal proceedings.
The Risk Factor prioritization formula helps compliance officers focus on legally significant issues first. They can show they’re strategically addressing problems most likely to trigger legal action, providing defensible documentation of reasonable compliance efforts.
Directors and VPs: Executive Visibility Without Technical Details
Technology directors need to ensure accessibility across their entire digital portfolio without getting mired in technical details. They require high-level visibility into progress and resource utilization across multiple projects.
The executive dashboard provides exactly this view. Directors see completion percentages across all projects, identify which digital assets need attention, and track overall organizational progress. Monthly reports provide board-ready documentation without requiring directors to understand WCAG technicalities.
The ROI becomes immediately visible through time savings. When projects complete in 4 weeks instead of 10, the platform pays for itself. The ability to scale from small projects to enterprise-wide initiatives means directors can pilot the approach before expanding organization-wide.
QA Engineers: Systematic Validation Workflows
QA engineers testing accessibility fixes often work from outdated spreadsheets with minimal context about the original issue. They waste time retesting validated fixes or missing issues marked complete but never verified.
The platform’s validation workflow creates systematic testing. QA engineers see which issues are ready for validation with full context—the original issue, the fix implemented, and developer notes. After testing, they mark issues as validated or needs work, with specific feedback attached to the issue rather than lost in email.
Summary
We’re looking around the room and everybody’s slowly nodding.
Yes, Accessibility Tracker is definitely the right call.
Why not head on over to AccessibilityTracker.com right now and lock down your subscription before we have to have that uncomfortable discussion with our web host on what unlimited hosting really means.
It’s not our fault probably millions of people will use Accessibility Tracker and they had the unlimited plan featured when we signed up.
