digital-accessibility
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Magic Software Inc. makes the textbook travel
A digital textbook has a surprisingly long journey to the classroom. Behind MagicBox, Magic Software Inc. handles the rights, rosters, formats and connections that help it arrive.
Verbit wants your words to work harder
Cheap AI made transcription a tougher business. Verbit’s next bet is that the valuable part of a conversation is what you can do with it while it is still happening.
accessiBe and the price of a shortcut
A small accessibility button became a $58 million business story. Now accessiBe is selling a broader answer to a stubborn problem: software can help open the web, but somebody still has to check the door.
Deque and the trouble with looking finished
A website can look immaculate and still shut people out. Deque built a business around finding the barriers - and making their repair part of everyday software development.
Thomas Oxley and the Quiet Road Into the Brain
A neurologist sent roughly 200 cold emails and found one reply that mattered. Fifteen years later, his wager on the brain’s blood vessels is becoming a new way to control computers.
Breck Inc. Built a Business in the Bureaucracy's Blind Spot
The Arlington firm found an unglamorous, consequential niche: making government information clear, useful, and accessible before the deadline becomes a crisis.
The Creative Agency That Learned the Website Was the Work
JUVE spent 25 years discovering that the hardest communication problem is often a broken workflow. Its answer is an unusual mix of branding, software and patient institutional memory.
Mangrove builds websites that put clients in the driver’s seat
The woman-owned B Corp turns complicated missions into websites people can use and teams can maintain. Its own story includes a Canadian acquisition, a smaller team and a giving target it had to catch up with.
Wade Lagrone Wants Accessibility Bugs to Die Before They Ship
Across finance, social networks, old photographs and live music, Wade Lagrone kept finding expensive uncertainty. At Evinced, his campaign is to catch the costliest kind earlier - the accessibility bug that reaches a customer.
Four IPOs, One Rhino, and a Better Case for an Accessible Web
After two decades measuring clicks, building products, and scaling digital businesses, Chad Sollis is applying an operator's eye to a stubborn problem: the web still turns away too many of the people it was built to serve.
AudioEye’s Real Product Isn’t a Widget. It’s the Work the Widget Can’t Do.
The Tucson software company spent two decades learning that accessibility cannot be solved by code alone. Its hybrid of automation, disabled testers and expert fixes now serves roughly 129,000 customers - and reveals both the promise and the limit of accessibility software.
Siteimprove
Siteimprove is a Danish-founded SaaS company that helps organizations build accessible, high-performing, and compliant digital experiences. Its platform unifies digital accessibility, web analytics, SEO/AEO, content quality, and governance into a single suite, increasingly powered by the Siteimprove.ai agentic content intelligence engine. Used by thousands of enterprises, governments, universities, and healthcare and financial institutions worldwide, Siteimprove turns sprawling, hard-to-audit websites into measurable, standards-compliant assets.
Evinced
Evinced is an AI-powered digital accessibility platform that helps engineering teams find, fix, and prevent accessibility defects across web and mobile apps. Founded by ex-Oracle execs in 2018, it sells to enterprise developers and counts six of the ten largest US and UK banks among its customers.
Navin Thadani
Navin Thadani is the Founder and CEO of Evinced, the leading AI-powered digital accessibility testing company based in Palo Alto, California. A serial entrepreneur with two prior successful exits (Qumranet to Red Hat and Ravello Systems to Oracle), he co-founded Evinced in 2018 with a mission to make the web and mobile apps accessible to the 1.3 billion people worldwide living with disabilities. Under his leadership, Evinced has raised $112 million across three funding rounds, built a 130-person team, and become the only pure technology play in the enterprise accessibility market, serving clients including five of the ten largest media companies in the US and UK, and financial institutions collectively managing $26 trillion in assets.