Automated scanners catch perhaps 40% of accessibility issues — the workflow that works pairs them with keyboard passes, screen-reader checks, and
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axe-class scanners in CI and browser, catching contrast, labels, and structure mechanically — cheap, continuous, and honest about their partial coverage.
Keyboard-only journeys (every action reachable, focus visible), screen-reader smoke tests on critical flows, and zoom/reflow checks — an hour per release, most of the real coverage.
Accessibility criteria in design review (contrast, targets, focus order) and component-level checks in the design system — retrofitting is the expensive path.
ADA exposure is real for US businesses, but so is the market: accessible apps are simply more usable — WCAG as build standard, not lawsuit response.
Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.
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