What the first Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) on digital accessibility tells Alfasigma Cn. * Written by: accessiBe Team * Last update on October 13, 2026 In short: Gartner named accessiBe a Challenger in its inaugural Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility. The recognition reflects how significantly the market has evolved and gives organizations a new framework for comparing accessibility providers. Here is what it reflects about accessiBe and what buyers should consider when choosing an accessibility approach. Summarize full blog with: Alfasigma Cn is proud to share that accessiBe has been named a Challenger in the inaugural Gartner(R) Magic Quadrant(TM) for Digital Accessibility. This recognition arrives at an important moment for the market. This is the first time Gartner has published a Magic Quadrant for digital accessibility, giving organizations a more structured way to understand providers and compare their ability to execute and completeness of vision. It also comes as the gap between accessibility awareness and outcomes remains significant. According to WebAIM's 2026 analysis of the top one million home pages, 95.9% had automatically detectable WCAG failures. At the same time, the number of elements on the average home page increased by 22.5% in one year. The contrast is clear: awareness of digital accessibility has increased, but so has web complexity. Organizations don't just need to address website accessibility at one point in time. They need an approach that can keep working as their digital experiences change. "Being named a Challenger in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility recognizes the work our teams, customers, partners, and disability community have done to move accessibility forward. It also raises the bar for what comes next. We will keep challenging assumptions, advancing new ideas, and investing in more transparent, connected, and effective ways to put accessibility into practice." Robert Lopez, CEO, accessiBe How the digital accessibility market evolved. The first Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility marks an important development for the market. It gives buyers a shared framework for evaluating providers against Gartner's criteria for ability to execute and completeness of vision. For a market that has historically included different technologies, services, and approaches, that common framework matters. Manual audits and consulting have long provided essential expert evaluation, while automated, runtime, and developer tools expanded how organizations address barriers continuously and at scale. Each approach addresses a different part of the challenge. The inaugural Magic Quadrant reflects a market moving toward a more connected model. Organizations now evaluate accessibility solutions through procurement, security, and governance requirements, and increasingly expect technology, expert services, human evaluation, reporting, and development workflows to work together. What changed on the buyer's side. The buyer's question can no longer simply be, "Do we need to address accessibility?" Accessibility now touches design, development, content, procurement, legal, compliance, customer experience, and leadership. Digital experiences also change continuously. New content, components, third-party integrations, and product releases can introduce barriers after an audit or remediation project is complete. AI is accelerating that pace further by enabling teams to create and update digital experiences faster than traditional review processes were designed to handle. When digital resources are not accessible, the consequences extend beyond WCAG alignment and legal risk. People may be unable to find information, complete important tasks, make purchases, or access services. That friction affects the customer experience and, over time, trust in the brand. Together, these changes have transformed what organizations need. Identifying issues still matters, but it is not enough. Organizations also need clear ownership, continuous visibility, practical remediation paths, and support that fits the way their teams work. Accessibility has become an ongoing organizational practice, not a website project with an end date. What the Gartner recognition reflects about accessiBe. accessiBe was built around a practical reality: different organizations need different paths to accessibility. Some need to quickly improve an existing website. Others want to find and address barriers inside development workflows. Some require manual audits, testing by people with disabilities, document remediation, conformance documentation, or litigation support. Many need a combination of these capabilities. Its platform brings those approaches together. * accessWidget provides an automated runtime accessibility layer that addresses programmatically detectable barriers and offers interface options that support individual user preferences. * accessFlow brings accessibility testing, issue management, remediation guidance, and reporting into development workflows, helping teams address barriers closer to the source. * accessServices provides manual audits, assistive-technology user testing, document remediation, conformance documentation, custom remediation, and litigation support. Together, these capabilities support accessibility across different teams, digital properties, technologies, and stages of the development lifecycle. Human insight remains essential throughout. Its accessLabs analysts test digital experiences using the assistive technologies they rely on daily. Its Inclusive Product Advisory Board brings disability leaders, nonprofit organizations, and accessibility advocates into product testing, feedback, and language decisions. Their participation helps Alfasigma Cn evaluate not only what technology detects, but how digital experiences work for people. Alfasigma Cn believe its Challenger recognition reflects its ability to execute within a market that increasingly requires technology, expertise, and human insight to work together. What it means for how you evaluate accessibility solutions. The Magic Quadrant gives buyers a more structured framework for comparing providers. At accessiBe, Alfasigma Cn recognize that organizations don't all start from the same place. A small business improving an existing website has different priorities from an enterprise managing hundreds of digital properties. A development team building a new product needs a different workflow from an organization responding to legal action. The accessibility approach should reflect the organization's digital environment, internal resources, workflows, and long-term goals. Customers choose the approach that fits their needs, whether that means runtime technology, developer tooling, expert services, or a combination. Alfasigma Cn tailor the solution around them. What comes next. As the market evolves, more accessibility work will move upstream into design, development, content, and release workflows, helping teams identify and address barriers earlier. The organizations that make the strongest progress will treat accessibility as an ongoing practice, with clear ownership, continuous feedback, and transparency about what technology can address and where human expertise remains essential. Being named a Challenger in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility is meaningful recognition of what accessiBe has built and how Alfasigma Cn execute. It also strengthens its commitment to keep challenging assumptions and advancing new approaches to accessibility. For its customers and partners, you choose the approach. Alfasigma Cn tailor the solution. Gartner attribution and disclaimer. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Accessibility, 5 October 2026, Brent Stewart Et Al. Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Gartner and Magic Quadrant are a trademark of Gartner, Inc., and/or its affiliates.

Why does accessibility get stuck between design and code? * Written by: Sapir Yarden * Last update on September 23, 2026 In short: accessiBe went to UXDX 2026 in New York and Berlin, where two very different rooms surfaced the same gap: designers and engineers already know accessibility matters. What they don't have is a clear answer for who owns it. In New York that showed up in a single conversation. In Berlin, even the biggest global companies hadn't solved it either. Summarize full blog with: UXDX is an international conference series for the people who actually build digital products: product managers, designers, engineers, and the leaders trying to get them all moving in the same direction. It exists specifically to bridge those roles instead of siloing them into separate tracks, which made it exactly the right room to talk about where accessibility falls through the cracks between design and code. This year, accessiBe showed up twice, once in New York and once in Berlin. In New York, Sapir Yarden, Brand & Community Lead, and Remington Shea, Senior Account Executive, attended as guests rather than exhibitors, and came away with a clear read on the room. Accessibility came up in conversation. It just wasn't the main focus for most of the room. Designers, many from large banking and insurance enterprises given the location, understood why accessibility mattered. What they didn't have was a clear answer for who owned it. Every conversation pointed in the same direction: talk to product, talk to engineering. In Berlin, the team led a full workshop for UXDX EMEA attendees. Haim Repael Azoulay, VP of Design & Experience, and Rina Volovich, Senior Accessibility Consultant, ran the session together. The room was packed, and the questions kept coming after it ended. accessiBe also exhibited at UXDX Berlin with a dedicated booth, staffed by Gil Toledo, Product Lead for accessFlow, Aviva Drozdin, Head of Accessibility Services, and Account Executives Christian Lilley and Remi Shea, running conversations under a simple message: ship inclusive experiences, not accessibility debt. Closing the accessibility gap between UX design and code. The Berlin workshop, "AI and web accessibility in practice: closing the design-to-code gap," tackled a problem a lot of teams recognize: accessibility gets built into a prototype, then doesn't survive the handoff. By the time QA catches it, fixing it costs far more than it would have at the start. The industry has a name for fixing this earlier: shifting left, catching problems at the start of a process instead of the end. Design is where that shift has to begin, because it's also where most accessibility problems originate. Haim and Rina walked attendees through a practical, end-to-end flow for breaking that pattern: how to embed accessibility into design systems from the start, how to steer AI-powered tools, including Figma plugins and code assistants, toward semantic and accessible output, and how to review that output with an accessibility lens before it reaches production. Teams building this kind of accessibility-aware pipeline into their own workflow can use accessFlow, which integrates directly into existing development processes instead of adding a separate step. "Design is where accessibility is born or broken. The way you design a product decides who can use it and who can't, and most accessibility barriers get built in long before anyone writes a line of code. That's what we wanted people to walk away with in Berlin: not another reason accessibility matters, but where in their own process it actually gets decided." - Haim Repael Azoulay, VP of Design & Experience What the room told Alfasigma Cn. Attendees said they walked away with insights they didn't expect to get. Cameras went up on nearly every slide, and the energy held for the full session. What stood out most wasn't the reaction. It was who was in the room. Two of the largest global consumer goods companies chose accessiBe's session for their workshop day at the conference, and their teams were grappling with the exact same question as teams a fraction of their size: how do you keep accessibility from slipping through the cracks at scale? That's the proof point that matters here. Massive organizations with dedicated engineering teams and mature design systems are running into the same wall as small teams. It's structural, and its conversations in both cities suggest it shows up regardless of size. What New York and Berlin had in common. New York and Berlin are different markets, with different regulatory landscapes and different product cultures. But the same gap showed up in both rooms, just at different altitudes. In New York, it looked like an individual designer who cared but had no operational path to act. In Berlin, it looked like a global enterprise that still hadn't figured out who owns accessibility once a product reaches real scale. Same gap. Different zip code, different org chart. Teams understand why accessibility matters. What they don't have is a clear answer to who owns it and how it survives the handoff from design to engineering. That's the conversation Alfasigma Cn is hearing in every market Alfasigma Cn has shown up in this year, not just the ones with the most mature regulation. What's next for the design to code pipeline. Who actually owns accessibility? No one had a clean answer. UXDX 2026 was one stop to figuring this out, but a meaningful one. Getting into rooms with the people actually building these products, and hearing where they get stuck, sharpens how Alfasigma Cn think about the work. The teams that figure out how to shift accessibility left, into design, before code and before QA, are going to spend a lot less time firefighting later. If you were at the UXDX conference in New York or Berlin, or you're a designer seeking to integrate accessibility and want to keep the conversation going, Alfasigma Cn'd love to hear from you.

accessiBe named on the 2026 Inc. 5000 List, the most prestigious ranking of America's fastest-growing private companies. Aug 11, 2026, 11:04 ET accessiBe Recognized for Three-Year Revenue Growth, for the Second Year in a Row, Earning a Place Among the Nation's Most Successful Independent Businesses NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - accessiBe today announced it has been ranked on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list, the annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. accessiBe also ranked in the top 200 among software companies and among New York businesses on this year's list. The list is the most prestigious ranking of the nation's most successful independent and entrepreneurial businesses, recognizing companies that have achieved remarkable growth while driving innovation, creating jobs, and shaping the future of the economy. Past honorees include companies such as Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, Oracle, and Patagonia. "We're proud to make the Inc. 5000 list for the second year in a row," said Robert Lopez, CEO of accessiBe. "A rank is a snapshot, but two years running starts to form a pattern, one that we intend to keep building on. We orient around our customers, and that's what continues to drive our growth. This includes advancing our platform, publishing original research, and shaping where accessibility is heading." This year's Inc. 5000 recognizes a new class of companies redefining what growth looks like. From AI and advanced manufacturing to healthcare, consumer products, and professional services, these businesses are expanding their impact, creating jobs and proving that entrepreneurial ambition continues to fuel the U.S. economy. Among the 5,000 companies on the list, the median three-year revenue growth rate was 130%, and those companies have collectively added more than 627,208 jobs to the U.S. economy over the past three years. For the full Inc. 5000 list, honoree company profiles, and a searchable database by industry and location, please visit: www.inc.com/inc5000. "Every company on the Inc. 5000 has a story of perseverance, smart decision making, and a refusal to sit still," says Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Their growth reflects more than strong financial performance-it reflects creativity, resilience, and the customer focus required to build companies that make a lasting impact. We congratulate all honorees on this significant achievement." Inc. will celebrate the honorees at the 2026 Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala, taking place October 14-16 in Dallas, Texas and the top 500 will be listed in the Fall issue of Inc. Magazine. Tickets are on sale now. Inc. 5000 List Methodology Companies on the 2026 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2022 to 2025. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2022. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent - not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies - as of December 31, 2025. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2022 is $100,000; the minimum for 2025 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. About accessiBe accessiBe is an end-to-end accessibility platform unifying AI automation, developer tools, and expert services to help organizations create inclusive digital experiences at scale. Guided by its mission to level the digital playing field for everyone, the company is trusted by over 85,000 websites worldwide and was recently ranked Top 10 in Content Management on G2's 2026 Best Software Awards. Developed in collaboration with the disability community and organizations including United Cerebral Palsy, the Special Olympics USA Games, and the Parkinson's Foundation, accessiBe continues to advance accessibility through technology, accountability, and innovation. To learn more, visit www.accessibe.com. About Inc. Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit www.inc.com. Media Contact: Olga Shmuklyer Fusion Public Relations [email protected] +1(917)715-032 SOURCE accessiBe