Deque named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms

Deque named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms

Today, Deque was recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave™ for Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025. Since its debut more than twenty years ago, businesses have been turning to the Forrester Wave to make informed decisions about tools and technologies. According to the report:

“Deque is the best fit for organizations seeking a full-service partner to complement a strong suite of AI-powered tools for experience makers.”

In this report, we received the top score in the Strategy category. We also received the highest possible ranking (i.e., 5/5 score, defined by Forrester as “superior relative to others in this evaluation”) across 21 criteria—the most out of all vendors analyzed—including vision, innovation, and roadmap, cementing, in our opinion, our position as the global pace-setter for digital accessibility innovation.

A leading vendor in AI

Deque is dedicated to AI innovation because our mission of digital equality depends on it. At a recent conference, Deque’s Preety Kumar and Dylan Barrell (CEO/cofounder and CTO, respectively) introduced the concept of “accessibility at the speed of AI,” and emphasized the critical importance of digital accessibility keeping pace with AI-powered digital content creation.

In 2025 alone, we introduced axe Assistant, our generative AI chatbot purpose-built for digital accessibility, and the axe MCP Server, which connects the accessibility expertise of the axe Platform with AI coding agents directly in a developer’s environment. The report states:

“[Deque] is consistently first to market with innovative features, including new testing approaches, genAI features, and most recently, its MCP solution offering agentic AI support for accessibility.”

A full-service provider

At Deque, we work with your organization as a strategic partner, collaborating closely to meet you where you are and ensuring that you have exactly the right tools, training, and services you need to achieve your digital accessibility goals.

We don’t just check boxes—we empower your teams for long-term success by providing end-to-end accessibility solutions that offer maximum flexibility, tailored to your maturity, individual roles, and business objectives.

It’s not just about getting better at fixing issues faster. The ultimate goal is to prevent issues from happening in the first place. This becomes possible through democratizing digital accessibility and making it possible for everyone to build accessibly from the start.

Among the many factors that the Forrester Wave mentions, we are perhaps most proud of what our customers had to say about us:

“Reference customers commend Deque’s commitment to helping them shift from a reactive to proactive approach. They are confident that Deque will continue to innovate… ”

The most powerful tools for developer teams

In a recent article, Preety wrote that “development teams are at the front lines of digital accessibility,” and noted the vital necessity of “embedding digital accessibility directly into the tools developers use every day.”

Our goal is for all developers to be able to easily leverage Deque tools and use them to be more proactive in their approach, ultimately moving more efficiently through their workflow. The Forrester report states:“Deque’s tools for designers and developers are a strength, and when combined with its chatbot, they’re a powerful enabler for users who are new to accessibility.”

Digital accessibility excellence

Being a digital accessibility leader isn’t just about tools and technology. Making a global impact requires having a global vision and a global strategy. And when you can translate visionary strategy into meaningful action, that’s when the real results happen for your customers.

In our opinion, the Forrester Wave team not only understands this but shines a spotlight on it:

“Deque focuses on integrating with tools that teams already use to bolster adoption. Its roadmap is straightforward and the result of extensive customer feedback.”

Deque received the highest scores possible in criteria ranging from developer tools, embedded learning, and source code remediation to policy configuration, program-impact metrics, and security. Altogether, Deque received twenty-one 5 ratings.

Choosing your digital accessibility partner

We are entering a new era of digital accessibility, marked by an unprecedented convergence of regulatory momentum and technological innovation. Agentic AI is speeding up the development lifecycle while keeping humans in the loop. At the same time, the European Accessibility Act is redefining what it means to build a more inclusive world.

Specifically, the report acknowledges that our testing methodology for EN 301 549 is helping our clients achieve EAA compliance, and also notes that our partner ecosystem continues to develop with the recent addition of more regional partners to better serve EU customers.

At Deque, we live and breathe digital accessibility every second of every day. Digital equality is our passion and our mission. To all our current customers around the world, we would like to express our gratitude for joining us in this mission and for choosing Deque as your digital accessibility partner.

And to every organization still deciding who to choose, we hope you’ll read the The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025 to see why we believe we’re the right choice for digital accessibility.

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About Deque Systems

Deque (pronounced dee-cue) stands for digital equality. For over 20 years, our software, services and training have helped eliminate billions of accessibility barriers from websites, mobile apps and other digital content - improving the web for everyone, including people with disabilities.

We work with enterprise-level businesses and organizations to ensure that their sites and mobile apps are accessible. Our axe tools have been downloaded over one billion times by accessibility champions around the world. Our experts have implemented thousands of successful accessibility programs. Our training has impacted over a hundred thousand learners.

Deque is the digital accessibility industry standard.
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