Building accessible experiences for millions of students, every day
Securly provides cloud-based student safety and digital wellness solutions to K–12 schools across the United States and globally. Its platform supports web filtering, device management, and student wellness monitoring for millions of students, teachers, parents, and administrators every day.
The Challenge
Securly faced a critical task of scaling accessibility from one app to an entire product portfolio while keeping development fast and efficient.
- Securly started with a focused initiative to make one application WCAG 2.1 compliant but needed to extend that early success across a growing portfolio of products, diverse codebases, and multiple development teams.
- They required a strategic approach to move past isolated testing and build
accessibility directly into everyday development workflows.
- They needed to maintain fast engineering velocity and release cycles without
depending on constant external help to stay accessible.
The Solution
Securly partnered with Deque to shift accessibility from a reactive compliance task
to a scalable practice built right into their everyday development lifecycle.
- Accessibility audits: Deque provided clear audit reports that mapped out exactly where Securly stood against WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 standards. Alongside the reports, collaborative review calls gave the Securly team straightforward, actionable guidance to fix issues without throwing off project timelines.
- Developer tooling: To keep engineering moving fast, Securly needed to catch issues before they reached production. By bringing Axe DevTools Extension into their workflow, developers tested for and fixed accessibility barriers as they wrote code, ensuring every new feature remained conformant from the start.
- Training and enablement: Long-term sustainability meant building up internal skills
across the organization. Through strategic enablement and resources like Deque
University, Securly gave multiple development teams the knowledge they needed
to build accessible products confidently, reducing their reliance on outside help.
“Our partnership with Deque helped us upskill our teams and accelerate development, transforming accessibility from a requirement into a core part of our workflow”
— Ankit Jain
Software Architect & Technical Manager, Securly
Results
- Accessibility became part of day-to-day development workflows across teams and
codebases, helping Securly maintain consistency across releases. - Issues were identified and resolved earlier and faster across cloud and native
applications through audits, expert testing, and Axe DevTools Extension. - QA and engineering teams built stronger internal accessibility knowledge through
training, testing methods, and hands-on use of the right tools. - Securly strengthened alignment with WCAG requirements while building a more
sustainable approach to ongoing accessibility improvement. - Ongoing support enabled the team to maintain accessibility standards and approach new releases with more confidence.
“Deque’s team did not just point out issues — they explained why they mattered. Our review calls were very collaborative and solution-oriented, not just checklist-driven.”
— Harsh Verma
Frontend Architect, Securly
