accessiBe Launches New Accessibility Engine to Boost Website Compliance, User Experience, and Performance

On December 4, 2024, accessiBe, a leader in web accessibility solutions, announced the launch of its new proprietary core accessibility engine. This advanced engine will enhance accessiBe’s ecosystem of web accessibility solutions, ensuring improved regulatory compliance, more precise remediation, and better website performance.

As technology continues to evolve and the internet plays an increasingly central role in daily life, accessibility guidelines and expectations must adapt to address a broader range of disabilities, promoting more inclusive digital content and services. However, ensuring inclusivity demands dedicated resources and specialized knowledge, which not all businesses can allocate. accessiBe’s new core accessibility engine addresses these technological challenges and complexities of updated guidelines, delivering more accurate results, while enabling businesses of all sizes to prioritize inclusion and web accessibility.

Key Highlights:

• More Accurate Remediation for Precision Compliance

The new engine improves alignment with evolving accessibility guidelines, offering enhanced support for users with disabilities. With the addition of numerous new rules, it ensures real-time compliance, making it easier for businesses to meet legal standards and serve users more inclusively.

• Enhanced Element Detection for Better User Experience

Websites are coded in many different ways, presenting challenges in accurately classifying components such as headers, menus, and buttons in line with accessibility guidelines. accessiBe’s engine uses advanced machine learning algorithms to tackle these challenges, improving the detection of key elements. This results in more precise remediation and websites that are more accessible and inclusive for all users.

• Optimized Website Performance

By removing redundant code and applying improved semantic structures, the new engine makes accessiBe’s solutions lighter and faster, enhancing overall website performance.

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“This update underscores our commitment to innovation and our mission of making the digital landscape accessible for all. The deployment of our new core engine is a defining moment for accessiBe, our customers, and end-users,” said Ophir Kra-Oz, CPO of accessiBe. “As we move into a digital-first world, it is essential that we provide solutions that bridge accessibility gaps efficiently and effectively. Through extensive research and by leveraging advanced technology like machine learning, we’ve enhanced the precision of our solutions, improving experiences for people with disabilities while achieving greater alignment with accessibility guidelines.”

The new engine is now live and empowering accessiBe’s AI solution, accessWidget, which is benefiting over 100K websites with these enhancements. Users of accessiBe’s accessFlow developer platform and free accessScan scanning tool will soon have access to the same engine, providing businesses with a more robust, AI-driven tool for real-time accessibility evaluation.

The core accessibility engine will continue to evolve, with future updates adding more rules and further aligning accessiBe’s entire ecosystem of solutions with the evolving accessibility standards and user expectations.