Accessibility Insights is positioned as a fast path to catching common issues early. Its site claims developers can address most common accessibility errors in under five minutes and assess for WCAG 2.1 AA coverage. Microsoft's open-source announcement emphasizes automated checks that identify issues quickly so teams can fix problems earlier. Lesson: accessibility improves when tooling reduces time-to-first-fix and supports both automated and human judgment tests.
If accessibility is only checked late, defects become expensive to fix and ship as exclusion. The benefit is compounding: earlier fixes reduce support burden and rework. Call to action: add automated checks to dev workflows, but pair them with manual testing for keyboard, focus, and screen-reader journeys.
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