A very important distinction between Accessibility Tracker’s AI VPAT generation and other software on the market is our AI VPATs aren’t based on scan results, they’re based on your actual audit report.
That’s a fundamental distinction of enormous consequences.
An Accessibility Conformance Report based on a scan will be tossed into the fireplace by any discerning buyer. Procurement agents want to assess your product or service’s accessibility based on how they stack up against WCAG or other technical standards, not a scan.
Scans can only reliably flag 13% of WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria.
They partially flag 45% of those same success criteria, but who cares?
Scan results isn’t what the market is after.
But this leads to what has been a glaring problem in the marketplace for years: virtually all accessibility platforms are scan-based. This means many users have been using a 100% scan score as an objective.
Again, zero errors on a scan isn’t the objective, it’s full WCAG conformance.
This is why we made Accessibility Tracker an audit-based platform.
Every user starts by uploading their accessibility audit report (if it’s from Accessible.org, the report will result from a good ol’ fashion fully manual audit).
Once the audit report is uploaded, the audit data is extracted and now we can accurately track progress and full conformance. This brings us back to filling in a VPAT. We must accurately and completely fill in a VPAT to create an Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR).
When you generate a VPAT through the Tracker, the platform references your actual audit data and current remediation status. The VPAT accessibility table gets populated based on manual evaluation and validation, not automation.
The technically correct terms (supports, partially supports, does not support, etc.) are filled in the conformance level column and AI elaborates in the remarks and explanations column.
And then after AI fills in the VPAT, you must manually review it for accuracy and completeness.
This is hybrid automation at work. Tracker AI handles the time-consuming population of each success criterion and then someone manually reviews the output. Once signed off on, the manual review layer then transforms the output into a complete ACR ready for procurement.
The AI VPAT generation feature is available for any paid plan.
You can sign up now at AccessibilityTracker.com.