About Access Shift

Our mission

The web should work for everyone, and the teams who build it deserve tools that are straight with them about what automation can and cannot achieve. We started Access Shift because too much of the accessibility-overlay market leans on promises — "one-click compliance," "lawsuit-proof," "fully accessible" — that no automated product can keep. Our goal is to deliver genuine, measurable improvement to the technical web-content criteria of WCAG 2.2 AA while being clear about the limits.

What does Access Shift do?

In short: Access Shift gives you two things that work together — a continuous WCAG 2.2 AA scanner and a runtime remediation widget.

• A multi-page scanner that crawls your site and reports against the same WCAG 2.2 AA criteria your auditors care about, so you can see where you stand and track progress over time.
• An embeddable widget that addresses common, detectable technical issues at runtime — alt text, ARIA labels, focus indicators, color contrast, target size, and more — where they can be patched safely in the browser.

Growth, Business, and Enterprise plans also include an annual hand-written accessibility audit, because the most defensible programs pair automation with human review.

Does Access Shift guarantee compliance?

No. We hold ourselves to a strict marketing-claims policy. Access Shift is an accessibility automation tool, not a legal certification, and no automated tool can guarantee conformance with any accessibility law on its own. You will not find guarantees of "full" coverage or immunity from litigation anywhere in our product or marketing — and if you ever do, treat it as a mistake superseded by our Terms of Service and Accessibility Statement.

Which frameworks does it help with?

We measure against WCAG 2.2 Level AA as a strong technical baseline. Because it is a superset of the web-content technical requirements referenced by many laws, targeting it helps you work toward the criteria behind the ADA, Section 508, the European Accessibility Act (via EN 301 549), Ontario's AODA, and the Accessible Canada Act — from a single baseline rather than five separate checklists.

Where does automation stop?

Runtime remediation cannot fix every issue. Meaningful sequence, complex cognition, the quality of alternative text for nuanced imagery, and non-web channels covered by other chapters of EN 301 549 all need human judgment. That is why we recommend pairing Access Shift with periodic source-level audits and manual testing by people who use assistive technologies. Automation handles the repetitive, detectable work at scale so your team and your auditors can focus on what genuinely needs a person.