Category: A11y for developers

Browse our collection of helpful resources to aide in your accessible development efforts, without impacting your development velocity.

Intelligent automation and the new era of guided testing

Harris Schneiderman
September 21, 2026 By Harris Schneiderman

Automated IGTs run through the Axe MCP Server, which puts them inside the environment where code is being written, so a developer can run a guided test and get remediation guidance without leaving their editor.

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Interactive elements getting tested for accessibility by the AI in Axe DevTools extension

Test your custom elements and trust the results with Axe-core’s support for ElementInternals

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August 27, 2026 By Wilco Fiers

If you're a large enterprise organization with accessibility issues resulting from interoperability challenges, moving to ElementInternals is a savvy move. You can standardize, and safely test. And, with Axe-core now supporting ElementInternals, you can test those components and trust the results.

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A testing flow, depicting a single custom button scanned by Axe-core for React, Angular or Vue frameworks

The anatomy of accessible forms: Required form fields

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August 6, 2026 By Aparna Pasi

Creating accessible forms ensures your forms are accessible to all users while meeting standards like ADA, WCAG, and EAA compliance.

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New in Axe MCP Server: More automated coverage and streamlined developer workflows

Automated accessibility testing helps teams catch issues earlier in the development workflow and reduce manual effort. However, some of the most complex accessibility checks have traditionally required guided or manual testing. With the latest Axe MCP Server updates, your developers can now automate even more accessibility testing directly inside their coding workflows.

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Use the Axe Monitor MCP integration within your preferred AI assistant to accelerate issue prioritization

Kate Spalla
July 30, 2026 By Kate Spalla

Now, by using our new Axe Monitor MCP integration within your preferred AI assistant, you can use natural language prompts to dramatically speed up the process of creating and comparing scans, prioritizing fixes, and building and delivering actionable accessibility sprint plans.

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New survey and report from Deque Systems shows volume of AI-generated code is significantly increasing “accessibility debt” risk

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July 23, 2026 By Deque Systems

Groundbreaking survey of engineering leaders finds wide gap between confidence in AI code and digital accessibility, with risk growing faster than validation infrastructure.

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64 percent cite accessibility as a top driver of post-production rework.