In a press release published on Wednesday, Arizona-based web accessibility company AudioEye announced it has won Best Accessibility Innovation in a SaaS Product at this year’s SaaS Awards.
The SaaS Awards, now in its eighth year, recognizes companies creating exemplary software-as-a-service innovations, colloquially known as SaaS. Past winners of the award include Evernote, IBM, and SAP.
The full list of 2023 honorees can be seen on the SaaS Awards website.
According to AudioEye, the company nabbed the award for what it described as its “comprehensive approach to digital accessibility, pairing powerful, AI-based automation with a team of certified accessibility experts.” Such technologies include Accessibility Maturity Management, which helps organizations visualize their current level of accessibility and offers guidance on how to improve, as well as the Accessibility Health Advisor. This tool helps organizations maintain compliance with disability legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, and notifies companies of any noteworthy changes to the law(s) to know.
In addition to its software, AudioEye was honored also in part due to the company’s steadfast commitment to using generative AI and large language models, or LLMs, in order to “find and fix complex accessibility issues that typically require time-consuming human analysis.”
“It’s an honor to be named an innovator in digital accessibility,” said AudioEye chief executive officer David Moradi in a statement for the press release. “We’ve long recognized that the accessibility gap is too large to be solved with legacy solutions alone—and we’re thrilled the judges cited our investment in AI as a potentially transformative approach to creating a more inclusive and accessible web.”
In a statement included in the press release, SaaS lead judge Monambigha Mohanasundaram said in part the judges’ panel felt AudioEye worthy of the recognition because of its “investment in cutting-edge AI and collaboration with the disability community exemplifies a transformative approach to digital accessibility.”
News of AudioEye’s award comes weeks after the company released its first-ever Digital Accessibility Index, which the company said “combined automated scans of nearly 40,000 enterprise websites with expert audits from members of the disability community to identify the web’s most common accessibility issues.” AudioEye’s Digital Accessibility Index was covered in-depth by yours truly in this space earlier this month.
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