Accessibility Insights

Overview

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.

Why it matters

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.