Our new web app, Accessibility Tracker, streamlines accessibility projects to the point where you can take a 2.5 month remediation project to 1 month. Here are the 10 features that make this 2.5x time savings possible:
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1. Works From Real Audit Reports, Not Scans
When you get an accessibility audit from a company, you typically receive an audit report in spreadsheet format with dozens or hundreds of issues. Tracker enables you to upload this report directly, so you don’t spend time transferring all those issues to another system.
Tracker works with any audit report in spreadsheet format so all data is extracted and every issue, recommendation, and detail gets transferred automatically.
Why this matters: Many accessibility platforms are scan-based, which means the issues are so skewed they’re almost meaningless. Scans only flag 25% of WCAG 2.1 AA issues for review (and contain both false negatives and false positives). In contrast, properly conducted audit reports conclusively identify all accessibility issues.
This means Tracker users can accurately track true progress toward conformance, not just progress on scan results. By starting with real audit data, you save hours vs. working on scan issues.
2. AI Tools For Fixing Issues Faster
Tracker includes 5 AI tools to help developers and other team members resolve each issue:
- Plain English Explanations: Converts technical WCAG jargon into clear language any developer can understand
- Ready-to-Use Code Examples: Shows exactly how to fix the issue with code you can adapt
- Alternative Answers: Provides different approaches when the standard fix won’t work with your site
- WCAG Standards: Explains why the issue matters for users with disabilities
- Custom Questions: Lets developers ask specific questions about the issue
Why this matters: These tools quickly shore up a lack of accessibility knowledge on your team’s side. From help understanding the issues to providing code examples to work from, there’s a tremendous infusion of intelligence in just a matter of seconds.
Obviously, AI still has oversights and makes mistakes and errors, but these tools not only save your team fixing issues, but save technical support hours ($195/hour from Accessible.org).
3. Same Dashboard
Instead of emailing spreadsheets and coordinating through multiple channels, everyone involved in your project—developers, managers, executives, and auditors—works from the same dashboard.
Why this matters: Accessibility projects typically suffer from fragmented communication. Spreadsheets get emailed, issues are discussed in meetings, feedback comes through chat, and decisions happen in calls. In Tracker, all project communication happens in one place. No more “which version is current?” or tracking down conversations about specific issues. This unified approach eliminates confusion, prevents duplicated work, and cuts project coordination time dramatically—turning what was previously a communication nightmare into a streamlined workflow.
4. Clear Ownership of Issues
Assign each accessibility issue to a specific team member with just a click.
Why this matters: This feature saves time in multiple ways. First, it ensures every issue has a clear owner who’s responsible for the fix. Second, it allows multiple team members to contribute simultaneously – designers can handle visual issues while developers fix code, and content editors can remediate content, distributing the workload efficiently instead of having one person responsible for everything.
Finally, team members can filter to see only their assigned issues, helping them focus on their specific tasks without getting distracted by the entire project. This coordination and parallel effort significantly accelerates project completion.
5. Progress Reports
See exactly how many issues have been fixed, validated, or still need work at any moment. Get automatic monthly reports on progress and documentation on completed work.
Why this matters: Accessibility projects frequently stall due to a lack visibility into progress. Without clear metrics, it’s difficult to maintain momentum and motivation. Tracker’s dashboard shows your completion percentage instantly, while automated monthly reports document progress.
This saves hours previously spent manually tabulating status updates or creating executive summaries. When leadership asks “where do we stand?” or clients request progress updates, you’ll have accurate answers immediately. This visibility keeps projects on track and moving to completion.
6. Fix the Most Important Issues First
Our clients sometimes ask us, which issues do we fix first? Previously, this involved using technical support hours to prioritze issues. However, this is no longer a manual exercise. Accessibility Tracker offers two ways to prioritize issues instantly:
- Based on impact to users with disabilities
- Based on risk level and implementation difficulty
Why this matters: Your team is able to know the most pressing issues first (based on your accessibility objective), delivering the biggest improvements early in the project.
7. FIlter and SOrt Issues
Filter and sort issues by any attribute:nlocation, type, status, priority, who’s assigned, or WCAG standard.
Why this matters: Instead of jumping randomly between unrelated issues, developers can work efficiently by addressing similar problems together. For example, a developer can filter to show all image-related issues and fix 15 missing alt text problems in one session, rather than switching context between different types of fixes.
This batched approach dramatically speeds up implementation time and ensures consistent solutions across your site. It also helps with planning by showing exactly how many issues of each type remain, making it easier to estimate completion timelines accurately.
8. Comment Log
Every issue has its own notes section that logs each note.
Why this matters: It’s easy for critical information to get scattered across emails, chat messages, and Zoom meeting notes. With Tracker’s comment log, all discussions about an issue—questions, clarifications, implementation notes, testing results—stay permanently attached to that specific issue.
This eliminates communication gaps, helps new team members quickly understand the history, and ensures each team member can know where the last comment left off. The time saved from not hunting through communication threads alone can amount to hours saved.
9. Immediate Validation
Auditors can validate fixes directly inside of the dashboard instead of through email exchanges, with comments placed inside of the comment log.
Why this matters: Validation happens quickly inside one channel, which, across dozens of fixes, can save hours of back-and-forth communication over email or Slack.
10. Add Your Own Issues When Needed
You can create custom issues that fall outside of the original audit but need tracking. Let’s say your team is aware of some issues that exist on a subdomain for the website you have audited and weren’t in scope for the original audit. No problem, these issues can be added inside of the project.
Why this matters: Your team can centralize all accessibility issues you’re working on for this project. This means the focus stays on one channel which saves immense time and energy for all of the aforementioned reasons.
Key Takeway
We designed Accessibility Tracker to streamline the remediation workflow and, as you can see, there are numerous ways we can slice time off a project.
When you combine all of these features, it’s easy to arrive at a 2.5x ROI on time savings.
Sign up for the free plan on Accessibility Tracker and try out our 10+ current time saving features (and counting, we’ve got more in store).
