Why Tracker Is the Best Digital Accessibility Project Management Platform

Accessibility Tracker outperforms all other software and apps on the market. Here’s why Tracker is the best platform for managing your accessibility project.

Real Audit Data, Not Scan Results

The fundamental difference between Accessibility Tracker and other platforms is that it’s built around actual audit results, not automated scan data. This distinction matters tremendously because scans only flag approximately 25% of WCAG 2.1 AA issues. When your project management is based on scan results, you’re working with incomplete and skewed data.

With Accessibility Tracker, you upload your comprehensive, manual audit report and get accurate metrics and analytics that reflect your true accessibility status. Every issue tracked is a real accessibility barrier that needs to be addressed, not a false positive or missed issue from automated scanning.

Project Overview That Actually Helps

The dashboard gives you immediate visibility into all your accessibility projects. You can see completion rates, total issues across projects, and issue distribution breakdowns. This becomes incredibly valuable when you’re managing multiple digital assets – perhaps two websites, a mobile app, and a web application all need to reach WCAG conformance.

For example, you might discover that one website has 74 total issues while your mobile app has 156 issues. This information helps you allocate resources appropriately and set realistic timelines for each project.

Two Intelligent Prioritization Formulas

Many accessibility project managers struggle with the fundamental question: which issues should we fix first? Accessibility Tracker solves this with two built-in prioritization formulas:

Risk Factor Formula: Prioritizes issues based on real lawsuit data, focusing on the accessibility problems most commonly claimed by plaintiffs’ lawyers in ADA website litigation. If you’re concerned about legal risk, this formula helps you address the issues that could land you in court.

User Impact Formula: Uses a weighted scoring system to identify which issues create the most significant barriers for users with disabilities. This approach prioritizes based on severity of access blocking, availability of workarounds, and affected user populations.

Team Collaboration Made Simple

Accessibility Tracker transforms your audit report from a static spreadsheet into a dynamic project management tool. You can assign specific issues to team members, track status changes, and add custom priority levels. Team members can mark issues as completed, and auditors can validate fixes – all within the same platform.

The status tracking is comprehensive: not started, in progress, fixed, validated, or on hold. This granular tracking ensures nothing falls through the cracks and provides clear accountability for each team member.

Built-In AI for Faster Remediation

Here’s where Accessibility Tracker truly shines: five AI tools built directly into each issue to help with remediation. When your developer encounters an accessibility issue they’re unfamiliar with, they don’t need to leave the platform or craft complex prompts for ChatGPT.

The AI tools include:

  1. Simplify and Explain: Plain English explanations perfect for team members new to accessibility
  2. Detailed Technical Answer: Advanced code examples and implementation guidance
  3. Alternative Approaches: Different solutions when the recommended fix doesn’t work for your situation
  4. WCAG Standards: Detailed explanations of the relevant success criteria
  5. Custom Analysis: Open-ended prompting for specific questions

Each tool is pre-prompted with information from your audit report, so the AI already understands the context and specific issue details. This saves tremendous time and eliminates the need for team members to become prompt engineering experts.

Documentation and Compliance Reporting

For organizations working through settlement agreements or facing compliance deadlines, Accessibility Tracker provides detailed progress documentation. You can generate reports showing which issues were addressed when, who validated the fixes, and your overall progress toward conformance.

This documentation becomes crucial for demonstrating compliance and meeting reporting requirements.

Conservative Time Savings: 2.5x Faster

Accessibility Tracker can speed up projects by at least 2.5 times compared to traditional spreadsheet-based management. A project that might take 50 hours using Excel and email coordination can be completed in approximately 20 hours with Accessibility Tracker’s streamlined approach.

This time savings comes from eliminated back-and-forth communication, instant access to AI assistance, intelligent prioritization, and centralized progress tracking. Your team spends time fixing issues instead of managing the project logistics.

Getting Started

Whether you’re managing a single website audit or coordinating accessibility across multiple digital assets, the platform scales to meet your needs.

The efficiency gains alone easily pay for the subscription cost within just a few days of use. When you consider developer hourly rates and the cost of project delays, the ROI stacks up into 10x and 100x gains.

Accessibility Tracker provides everything you need to reach WCAG conformance faster and easier. You can start with a free plan at AccessibilityTracker.com.

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