Deque Systems ( ) is a digital accessibility company based in

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with additional offices in Kavuri Hills Madhapur, Hyderabad India and Utrecht, The Netherlands.

History

The CEO of Deque Systems is Preety Kumar. The company was started in 1999 and produces accessibility testing software in addition to offering accessibility consulting services and training. In June, 2015 Deque open-sourced the accessibility rules engine axe-core. In May 2020, the WorldSpace brand name was retired and replaced by axe for each of Deque's products. In September 2020, Deque found that the majority of vote by mail applications were inaccessible, and fixed them for the 2020 Presidential Election. More than 17,000 attendees joined Deque's digital accessibility conferenc
axe-con
in March 2021, making it the largest accessibility conference recorded.

Products

Deque tools, services and training are used to achieve compliance in support of the W3C's

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are part of a series of web accessibility guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for ...

, the

Americans with Disabilities Act The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA () is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ...

Section 508 In 1998 the US Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information technolog ...

and

EN 301 549 EN 301 549 is a European standard for digital accessibility. It specifies requirements for information and communications technology to be accessible for people with disabilities. EN 301 549 was developed by CEN, CENELEC and ETSI to set requir ...

.
axe
is a suite of accessibility testing tools for HTML, Android, and iOS applications. Each product in the axe toolkit is powered by the open source rules engine axe-core. Products within the axe suite include
axe Devtoolsaxe Monitor
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axe Auditor
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Deque University
'' is a collection of online accessibility training courses covering a range of topics from introductory level to expert-level

International Association of Accessibility Professionals Founded on March 19, 2014, the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region ...

CPACC.

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