Company positioned highest in Ability to Execute among all vendors evaluated
Level Access, a global provider of digital accessibility solutions, has been named a Leader in the first Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility Platforms, and was positioned highest in Ability to Execute among all vendors evaluated.1
“AI is building the digital world faster than any team can manually audit for accessibility, and that exposure compounds with every release,” said Mark Zablan, Chief Executive Officer of Level Access. “Whether a product is truly accessible, and whether organizations can show the evidence, is now a question buyers, regulators, and customers are all asking. The most recognizable brands in the world have trusted us with that call for 25 years.”
A category under pressure
The problem behind the category is getting worse. WebAIM’s annual analysis of the top one million home pages found Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2 failures on 95.9% of them in 2026, up from 94.8% a year earlier, ending six consecutive years of improvement.2 Level Access research published this month found that among professionals using AI in the software development life cycle (SDLC), 99% say it sped up at least one stage of building software, while only 30% say it sped up testing.3 As building outpaces checking, organizations need support to embed accessibility accountability across their existing AI-enabled workflows.
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According to its website, when deciding to create a Magic Quadrant, “Gartner selects markets that are established, distinct and viable, where comparative vendor analysis is valuable to clients.”4
We believe this focus on digital accessibility reflects a category that has become a condition of doing business: Enterprises increasingly require evidence of accessibility before they purchase, and laws including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the European Accessibility Act (EAA) have increased legal expectations and enforcement scrutiny, driving more organizations to make accessibility a priority. People with disabilities in the U.S. also represent roughly $675 billion in annual spending power, and organizations building experiences that don’t work for them miss out on that reachable market.5
Human judgment stays in the loop
Closing that gap takes more than automation alone. WCAG 2.2 is explicitly designed to be testable through a combination of automated testing and human evaluation. Human judgment is part of how the standard works, not a layer added on top of it. Eighty-nine percent of professionals surveyed say humans need to stay closely involved as AI use expands.3
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“Accessibility has always been evaluated after the fact, once something is already built and in front of people, but AI and agentic workflows have collapsed the time teams have to look,” said Andrew Chung, Chief Product Officer of Level Access. “We’re building the accessibility layer for development workflows so defects can be addressed earlier, before code is committed, inside the tools teams already use, held to the same standard our experts have always applied.”
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