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Sitio and the art of fixing the small stuff
A broken link is a tiny mistake with a long shadow. Sitio built its website governance pitch around making those mistakes easier to find, understand, and fix.
Morten Ebbesen and the value of a boring problem
He built Siteimprove around the things that go wrong on websites. Now Morten Ebbesen is bringing the same appetite for fixing everyday friction to the electricity business.
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.
Crownpeak and the art of being found
A retailer can stock exactly what you want and still send you away empty-handed. Crownpeak built a business around that sort of expensive misunderstanding - then became part of Rezolve AI’s commerce ambitions.
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.
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.
Hidde de Vries
Hidde de Vries is a Dutch front-end, design systems and web accessibility specialist who works on web standards for the Dutch government and sits on the W3C's Advisory Board. A co-editor of WCAG and WCAG-EM and a former Mozilla, W3C and Sanity contributor, he writes prolifically at hidde.blog about making technology work for humans, and is a regular conference speaker across Europe.
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.
Marcy Sutton
Marcy Sutton Todd is a senior frontend infrastructure engineer at Khan Academy and one of the most recognized voices in web accessibility. A former Deque Systems engineer who helped shape axe-core, she pivoted from photojournalism to web development, built the Testing Accessibility workshop series, and has spent over a decade making the web usable for everyone - framing it as a civil rights issue, not a compliance checkbox.
Scott Vinkle
Scott Vinkle is a Toronto-based Accessibility Specialist at Shopify with over 12 years of experience making digital products usable for everyone. Holding the IAAP CPWA certification - one of the highest credentials in web accessibility - he co-leads Shopify's accessibility guild, contributes to W3C ARIA standards, speaks at international conferences, and publishes practical accessibility guidance through his newsletter, blog, and Medium. He's the rare specialist who bridges the gap between compliance checkbox and genuine inclusive design.