Accessibility for Agencies: How navable Speeds Up Your Audits
Since 28 June 2025, the German Accessibility Strengthening Act (BFSG) has required many businesses to make their digital products accessible. For web and digital agencies, that's a chance to genuinely help clients with an important topic. The bottleneck is rarely demand. The real constraint is the effort per audit, and that's exactly where navable comes in.
This article explains how navable supports agencies, what you can expect from us, and how your agency benefits.
The agency problem: accessibility matters, but it's slow
A manual WCAG 2.1 AA audit is thorough, but it's labor-intensive to prepare. A lot of time goes into the same repetitive steps: crawling pages, documenting obvious violations, collecting screenshots, writing tickets. This routine work ties up capacity that's better spent on real assessment and advisory.
The result: without support, this groundwork is hard to scale. It becomes especially painful when many clients need help at the same time around the BFSG deadline.
What navable takes off your plate
navable automates the mechanical, repetitive work of audit prep so your team can focus on what matters: assessment, advisory, and manual checks where automation hits its limits.
1. navable audits as a foundation
The navable audit is more than a plain axe-core scan. Instead of starting from zero, your audit begins with a structured inventory: categorized findings, affected pages, severity levels, and mapping to the relevant success criteria. The whole thing goes considerably deeper than a classic single-engine run.
Why navable audits find more barriers than other tools:
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AI-augmented, semantic WCAG rules: Hand-written, WCAG-grounded AI rules check the meaning, not just the markup. This makes criteria auditable that weren't programmatically checkable before. One example: "Are the aria-labels actually meaningful?" Are page titles descriptive, is the link purpose clear? These are exactly the judgment-based points where pure rule engines fall short.
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Multi-state & authenticated audits: navable audits different states of the same URL, such as opening a modal or the view before and after login. It also reaches pages behind logins, cookie banners, and multi-step flows, including screenshots per state.
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User-flow audits via AI PathFinder: Describe the goal in natural language, and navable discovers and tests the required steps automatically. That covers the complex client flows shallow crawlers skip.
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Multi-device scans: Every URL is audited across desktop and mobile profiles, not just a single viewport.
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Scheduled audits & CI/CD integration: Scheduled audits run automatically at fixed intervals. Via the API you can also wire scans straight into your CI/CD pipelines. That keeps accessibility under control after every deploy, without manual re-checking.
A pre-scanned site therefore means faster and deeper manual audits. It gives you a clean starting point for the items that require human expertise, such as focus order, screen reader logic, and content understandability.
2. Developer-friendly tools, built by developers for developers
Because we've lived the development experience ourselves, saving developers time and a great dev experience matter to us. In step with fast-moving development and today's AI tooling, we offer:
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Open-source MCP & agent skill: Catch many barriers already during the development phase, right inside AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot or Claude Code.
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navable MCP server: It pulls the findings from your automated audits straight into AI coding tools, so developers can tackle them where they work.
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Ready-made copy-prompts per violation: Every issue comes with an IDE-ready prompt to copy. This is guidance for fixing, not automatic repair. Control stays with your team.
For agencies, that means you don't just hand over a list of problems, but an actionable fix path. It shortens the remediation phase and makes you more valuable as a partner.
3. Central documentation, metrics & reports
Every finding lives in one place, whether it's generated automatically or uploaded manually. On top of that, you get metrics and historical data on how accessibility evolves. Stakeholder reports can be generated and downloaded on demand. You document progress to the client. This can also be used for documented compliance efforts in the sense of the §17 BFSG exemption ("disproportionate burden").
4. AI-generated accessibility statement
With the Statement Generator, you create an accessibility statement that references the audit results directly. It's one more rounded deliverable for your clients, and the effort stays minimal.
How navable fits into your workflow
navable doesn't replace your audit, it speeds it up. Here's what a typical agency workflow looks like:
- Scan: Pre-scan the client site with the navable Audit. A large share of common WCAG 2.1 AA violations is captured automatically.
- Assess: Your team reviews the automated findings and adds the manual evaluation of the remaining criteria.
- Fix: Developers use the fix prompts. For deep code integration, the navable MCP server runs scans right inside the AI agent's IDE.
- Document: A shareable report and the generated accessibility statement serve as compliance evidence.
How your agency benefits
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Faster audits: Routine work disappears, and prep starts with a ready-made inventory instead of from scratch.
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More time for what matters: You spend fewer hours on mechanical work and gain room for assessment and advisory that genuinely helps clients.
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More projects in parallel: Scalable prep lets you support more clients well in the same window.
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Consistent results: A single scan standard keeps quality comparable across projects and team members.
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Stronger deliverables: Report, fix prompts, and accessibility statement add up to rounded service packages.
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Happier clients: Dev-ready fixes shorten remediation, so clients see results sooner.
What you can expect from navable
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Tools that fit real dev workflows. They range from copy-prompts to the MCP server for AI agents.
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Open to feature requests. As a partner, you can bring requirements straight to us. We're deliberately agile and ship useful features quickly, as long as they add value for everyone.
Our mission
We want to save companies time and automate digital accessibility challenges as much as possible, so compliance stays economically viable, reaches as many people as possible, and more products become accessible.
Next step
Want to put navable to work in your agency? Take a look at subscriptions or reach out to us anytime at hello@navable.io.