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Avoiding the Accessibility Backlog: Faster and Smarter 508 Compliance
Hosted By: Evinced & Carahsoft
Federal agencies face constant pressure to meet Section 508 compliance yet traditional accessibility testing still happens too late in the development process. Issues are discovered only after projects are completed, creating long remediation cycles, heavy technical debt and endless back-and-forth between teams.
At the core of the problem is visibility: without clear data on what’s actually causing accessibility failures, teams waste hours chasing surface-level fixes while root-cause issues remain hidden.
On April 23rd, our webinar showcased how agencies can modernize accessibility by shifting left - moving accessibility checks earlier in the development process and integrating them directly into CI/CD pipelines. With automated SDKs and powerful MCP tooling, developers can now catch and fix issues in real time, preventing defects from ever reaching official testing.
Attendees learned:
- Modernized Federal Compliance: Practical ways to move away from slow, manual audits toward a continuous system that scales across all your agency’s web and mobile projects.
- Smart Remediation: Why identifying a few shared UI components can solve the vast majority of your 508 violations, saving your team hundreds of hours.
- Connecting the Pipeline: How to align infrastructure managers and developer teams so everyone is working from a single, accurate roadmap regarding accessibility.
- Fixing at the Source: How powerful MCP tools help developers spot accessibility bugs in real time, long before they become official compliance failures.
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