Understanding your website's accessibility is about more than knowing its overall score. You also need to understand which problems exist, how widespread they are, what has improved, and where your efforts will make the greatest difference.
AI Accessibility Analysis helps you make sense of this information.
Available directly from the SimplifyAccess Dashboard, the feature evaluates your website's existing accessibility and processing results to produce a structured overview of its current condition.
Instead of working through individual technical reports, you receive:
- Website Accessibility Summary: An explanation of your website's current accessibility condition.
- Key Findings: Important observations supported by available results.
- Priority Actions: Recommended improvements, including where to start and who may be responsible.
- Analysis Confidence: An indication of how well the available data supports the assessment.
- Recommended Next 7 Days: A practical starting point for planning your next improvements.
The goal is straightforward: Understand where your website stands, identify what needs attention, and decide what to do next.
1. Where to Find AI Accessibility Analysis
AI Accessibility Analysis is available on the SimplifyAccess Dashboard.
- Sign in to your SimplifyAccess account.
- Select the website or controller you want to analyze.
- Open the Dashboard.
- Locate the AI Analysis section beneath the main accessibility overview.
Each controller has its own website data and analysis. If you manage multiple websites, switching controllers also changes the analysis displayed.
For more information about the Dashboard, see Understanding the Dashboard.
Generating Your First Analysis
AI Accessibility Analysis is generated on demand.
When you first open the feature, you must manually request an analysis. SimplifyAccess does not automatically create one when you add a website.
Once generated, the result remains available on your Dashboard until you explicitly request an updated analysis.
You can do this using Regenerate AI Analysis.
Tip: For a meaningful first analysis, allow your website's initial accessibility audits to complete. The more complete your available results, the more useful the assessment can be.
2. What Information Does the Analysis Consider?
SimplifyAccess uses information already collected through its accessibility auditing and website-processing workflows.
The analysis considers several aspects of your website:
| Area | What the analysis considers |
|---|---|
| Accessibility performance | Overall results from automated accessibility checks |
| Detected issues | Types of accessibility problems and how extensively they affect the website |
| Audit coverage | How much of the known website has been assessed |
| Previous results | Available evidence of improvements, newly detected problems, or recurring issues |
| Content readiness | Progress in content extraction, simplification, plain language, and other supported content processes |
| Processing status | Whether relevant website information has been successfully processed |
These different perspectives help distinguish between a website that performs well in its completed tests and one that has also been thoroughly assessed.
For example, a website might have an excellent accessibility score but incomplete audit coverage. In that case, the analysis can point out that the available results are positive while some pages still need to be checked.
Similarly, a website may have few technical accessibility errors but limited plain-language content.
The analysis can identify such opportunities without presenting them as technical failures.
The important distinction: AI Accessibility Analysis interprets existing information. It does not perform a new website audit or independently verify every aspect of accessibility.
3. Website Accessibility Summary
The Website Accessibility Summary provides a concise explanation of your website's overall condition.
It brings together the most relevant information from the available results and describes what those findings mean.
Depending on your website, the summary may highlight:
- Strong or weak accessibility performance
- Successfully completed audits
- Significant or recurring accessibility issues
- Incomplete audit or processing coverage
- Opportunities to improve content accessibility
- Changes identified through previous assessment results
What Can You Learn From the Summary?
Consider a website where all discovered pages have been audited, the accessibility score is high, and no significant errors were found.
The summary might describe its technical accessibility condition as strong.
However, if only a small proportion of the website's content is available in plain language, the analysis may also identify an opportunity to improve accessibility for visitors who benefit from easier-to-understand text.
This is an important part of SimplifyAccess: Accessibility involves more than technical compliance checks.
The platform also helps you understand the readiness of content-related accessibility features.
Learn more about these capabilities on How SimplifyAccess Works.
4. Key Findings: What Deserves Your Attention?
The Key Findings section highlights important observations from the analyzed data.
Rather than listing every individual audit result, it concentrates on findings that help explain your website's condition.
A finding may describe:
- An accessibility issue affecting multiple pages
- A recurring problem involving website elements
- Incomplete accessibility audit coverage
- Insufficient content-processing coverage
- An improvement or deterioration compared with previous results
- A positive result, such as the absence of errors in completed automated tests
Understanding the Evidence
Where available, a finding includes supporting information.
For example:
Finding: Missing accessible names on interactive elements
Some buttons do not have sufficiently descriptive names for assistive technologies.
Evidence: The issue was detected on several audited pages and affects multiple elements.
Why it matters: Visitors using screen readers may have difficulty understanding what those buttons do.
The exact findings and supporting details depend on your website.
Understanding Severity
Findings can include a severity indicator, such as:
| Severity | General meaning |
|---|---|
| Low | An observation with limited identified impact or no immediate corrective action required |
| Medium | A finding that deserves attention and should be reviewed |
| High | A potentially significant accessibility issue or gap that should receive greater priority |
Severity helps you understand which findings may require attention first.
It is not a legal classification, and the actual importance of an issue may depend on the affected functionality and visitors.
What Should You Do?
Use Key Findings to identify areas that deserve closer investigation.
For technical findings, open Site Workspace to examine the relevant pages and their accessibility results.
Remember: A finding stating that no errors were detected means the completed automated checks found no reported errors. It does not guarantee that the website is free of accessibility barriers.
5. Priority Actions: What Should Be Improved?
Knowing that an accessibility problem exists is useful. Knowing how to address it is even more valuable.
The Priority Actions section turns relevant findings into suggested improvements.
SimplifyAccess considers the available evidence to recommend actions that may help improve accessibility or complete important processing work.
Understanding a Priority Action
Depending on the available information, an action may include:
| Information | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Recommended improvement | What should be changed or reviewed |
| Reason | Why the improvement matters |
| Recommended fix | A suggested way to address the problem |
| Starting point | An affected page or relevant workflow |
| Expected impact | How the change may improve accessibility |
| Owner | The team or role likely to be responsible |
| Effort | An approximate estimate of implementation effort |
Not every recommendation includes all these details.
Owner and Effort
The Owner indicator suggests which area of your organization may be best suited to handle the improvement.
Examples include content editors, designers, or frontend developers.
The Effort indicator provides a rough estimate:
- S — Small: A relatively limited or straightforward task.
- M — Medium: A task requiring a moderate amount of work.
- L — Large: A potentially more extensive improvement.
These labels help with planning. They are not automatically assigned tasks or guaranteed time estimates.
Example: Improving Image Accessibility
Suppose the analysis identifies several informative images without suitable alternative text.
A recommendation might suggest:
- What to improve: Add meaningful alternative text to informative images.
- Why: Screen reader users may otherwise miss important information.
- Where to start: Review the affected pages identified in the audit.
- Suggested owner: Content or frontend team.
- Expected result: Improve access to visual information.
The recommendation gives your team a practical starting point without requiring you to interpret the underlying technical test data first.
Identifying Quick Improvements
Where suitable issues have been identified, the analysis can also recognize opportunities for improvements that may require relatively little effort.
These are often useful starting points, particularly when your team has limited resources.
However, small improvements should not automatically take precedence over critical barriers affecting essential functionality.
Tip: Use Priority Actions to organize work, then verify the underlying findings before implementing significant changes.
6. Analysis Confidence: How Reliable Is the Assessment?
The Analysis Confidence indicator helps you understand how strongly the available information supports the generated analysis.
An assessment based on extensive, completed accessibility audits generally has a stronger foundation than one based on only a small number of evaluated pages.
The indicator may show:
| Confidence | General interpretation |
|---|---|
| High | The available results provide a strong foundation for the assessment |
| Medium | The assessment is useful, but some information may be incomplete |
| Low | Limited available results reduce the completeness of the assessment |
The displayed explanation provides additional context.
Why Does Audit Coverage Matter?
Imagine a website with 100 discovered pages.
If only 10 pages have been audited, the analysis can describe the results of those pages, but it has much less information about the remaining 90.
If all 100 pages have been audited, the assessment has broader coverage.
That does not guarantee the website is accessible, but it provides a more complete foundation for interpreting the automated findings.
What High Confidence Does Not Mean
High confidence does not mean that:
- Every accessibility issue has been detected.
- The website meets every applicable accessibility standard.
- Manual accessibility testing is unnecessary.
- All AI recommendations are guaranteed to be correct.
It reflects the strength of the available evidence, not a certification of compliance.
7. Recommended Next 7 Days: Your Practical Action Plan
The Recommended Next 7 Days section provides a short list of suggested activities based on your analysis.
Its purpose is to help you move from assessment to improvement.
Depending on your results, the recommendations might include:
- Fixing an accessibility problem that affects several pages.
- Completing audits for pages that have not yet been assessed.
- Reviewing and improving missing alternative text or form labels.
- Extending content simplification or plain-language coverage.
- Running new accessibility checks after making improvements.
These activities are suggestions, not automatically scheduled jobs or legally binding deadlines.
You decide which tasks to undertake, who is responsible, and when they should be completed.
A Practical Approach
You don't need to address every recommendation simultaneously.
Start with the issues that create the greatest barriers for visitors, particularly those affecting important website functionality.
Then review opportunities for broader improvements, such as content accessibility or recurring problems across multiple pages.
After implementing changes, use fresh accessibility audit results to verify the improvements.
The analysis can then be regenerated to reflect the newly available information.
8. Keeping Your AI Analysis Up to Date
An AI analysis represents a snapshot of your website's available results at the time it was generated.
It does not continuously update in the background.
This distinction is important because the website and its accessibility data may change while the existing analysis remains unchanged.
When Should You Regenerate?
Consider requesting a new analysis after:
- Completing a substantial number of new accessibility audits
- Resolving important accessibility issues
- Updating significant parts of your website
- Processing additional simplified or plain-language content
- Implementing improvements recommended by an earlier analysis
To generate an updated assessment:
- Open the Dashboard.
- Locate the AI Analysis section.
- Click Regenerate AI Analysis.
- Review the updated results when generation has completed.
Why Might the AI Analysis Differ From the Dashboard?
The Dashboard may already display newer accessibility results than those considered during the last AI analysis.
For example, the Dashboard might show an accessibility score of 97%, while an older AI analysis refers to 95%.
This does not necessarily indicate an error.
The website's underlying audit results may have changed since the AI analysis was generated.
Check the generation date displayed beneath the analysis to understand when its information was last evaluated.
Important: Refreshing the Dashboard does not regenerate the AI analysis. A new analysis must be requested explicitly.
9. Using the Analysis to Improve Your Website
AI Accessibility Analysis is most useful when you combine its recommendations with the platform's page-level tools and your own review.
A practical workflow looks like this:
| Stage | Your action | Your goal |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Assess | Complete accessibility audits | Establish the current condition |
| 2. Understand | Generate an AI analysis | Identify important findings |
| 3. Prioritize | Review recommended actions | Decide what to address first |
| 4. Investigate | Open affected pages in Site Workspace | Understand the underlying problems |
| 5. Improve | Implement appropriate corrections | Remove barriers and improve content |
| 6. Verify | Run new accessibility checks | Check whether the changes worked |
| 7. Reassess | Regenerate the AI analysis | Review progress and remaining priorities |
This approach turns accessibility information into a manageable improvement process.
It is especially useful when several people or teams are responsible for different aspects of a website.
10. Frequently Asked Questions
Does AI Accessibility Analysis perform a new accessibility audit?
No. The analysis interprets existing audit and processing information. New accessibility audits must be performed separately.
Is the analysis updated automatically?
No. Both the first generation and subsequent updates must be requested manually.
Can I generate an analysis if not all pages have been audited?
The usefulness of an analysis depends on the available results. Incomplete coverage may reduce the confidence and completeness of its findings.
Does the analysis explain which accessibility issues are most important?
Yes. It highlights important findings and provides suggested priorities based on the available evidence.
Can the analysis recommend content improvements?
Yes. Where relevant data is available, it can identify incomplete content processing and opportunities to improve simplified or plain-language content.
Does it show whether accessibility has improved?
When suitable previous audit results are available, the analysis can consider evidence of resolved issues, newly detected problems, and changes in accessibility performance.
Are recommended improvements applied automatically?
No. The analysis provides guidance. Implementing and verifying improvements remains a separate process.
Does a high accessibility score mean my website is fully accessible?
No. Automated accessibility scores describe the results of the performed checks. Some barriers require manual evaluation.
Can AI Accessibility Analysis certify legal compliance?
No. The analysis supports accessibility management but does not constitute a legal compliance assessment or certification.
Related Features
- Site Workspace — Investigate individual pages, accessibility issues, and content-processing results.
- How SimplifyAccess Works — Discover the platform's accessibility auditing and improvement workflows.
- Accessibility Reports — Explore reporting options for website accessibility results.
- Accessibility Statements — Document and publish your website's accessibility information.
From findings to improvements: AI Accessibility Analysis helps turn complex website data into understandable observations and practical recommendations. Use it to identify priorities, guide your next steps, and support continuous accessibility improvement.