Evinced Review [UPDATED]

Evinced – Premium Accessibility Tool for Developers

If you are looking for a premium accessibility tool for developers, Evinced may just be ideal for you. In this review, we will be taking a long look at this unique accessibility solution for you as a developer. Let’s explore Evinced’s tools and how you can use this platform for your websites.

Evinced is an engine for testing digital accessibility through AI, making the process of achieving accessibility faster, more efficient, and cheaper.

A whole host of software solutions are provided that will automatically locate and indicate issues with accessibility. The Evinced technology will make suggestions about how to remedy these issues. Everything Evinced and its software does in accordance with the WCAG and Section 508 guidelines, meaning that compliance will never be an issue. Add to that the revolutionary AI, which handles parts of the remediation process that used to be done manually, and you’re meeting the international accessibility standards.

Now that we have introduced Evinced let’s take a deeper dive into how their features can help you and other developers, QA teams, and designers.

Guide to How Evinced Operates and a List Top Features 

When developing software, accessible code should be written naturally. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. There usually needs to be accessibility testing woven into the basics of the development process. To make sure this is done throughout your website, Evinced provides a wide array of accessibility testing options. Each of which can be employed during the development phase, as well as the entire development process. The automated features detect problems with accessibility and then recommend solutions. Evinced does this in such a way that their instructions are clear and useful for developers.

The usual requirement for achieving 100% accessibility is employing both automated and manual features, seeing as AI cannot complete the process by itself. A mere 30-45% of compliance issues are caught by the average AI accessibility checker. The tech at Evinced goes deeper, into the code itself, in order to provide deeper analysis.

The AI checks that all functions on a given website work and if the code corresponds to what was written. This system allows the AI to catch many more errors, reducing the dependence on costly manual remediation. Evinced will not only reduce the costs but is incredibly fast, so efficiency will also be improved.

Site Scanner provided by Evinced

The Site Scanner provided by Evinced crawls through thousands upon thousands of web pages, scanning them for issues with accessibility. Fast and able to generate easily comprehensible reports, the Scanner sorts problems by severity, type of accessibilities issues, and pages affected by issues types. Also, a neat, unusual feature is the Evinced Scanner clumping issues into components, meaning that repetitive issues will be easily cleared from the code.

Outstanding feature Dev Debugger

Another cool feature is the Dev Debugger. It facilitates the identification of important accessibility problems as individual components. This permits devs to uncover elements that have not been implemented correctly at the code level. The Debugger then provides examples, in code, for remedying these issues. After this, the technician will test and validate that the changes were successful. The Dev Debugger provided by Evinced can be integrated with Chrome’s tools for development.

Software Developer Kit

Next, let’s discuss the SDK provided by Evinced. SDK is short for Software Developer Kit. This is a selection of tools for development that can be integrated into any development process, no matter how often code is released. Evinced has made sure that your UI can support its frameworks for testing. Evinced has also made sure your Dev/QA build will automatically uncover background accessibility issues during testing of your web app. SDK can also support the iOS Accessibility Debugger, as well as a desktop client, which permits you to find exactly where these issues are. This iOS Debugger will facilitate a much more detailed analysis of accessibility problematics. 

User-flow Analyzer

Next, let’s move on to the User-flow Analyzer. This item can be of particular interest to people developing software, as well as Automation and QA engineers. It permits the identification of accessibility issues in user flows. It accumulates and keeps track of said issues and communicates with the developers – all via automation.

End-to-End Mobile Accessibility Solution

On the 14th of September Evinced announced the operation of their mobile checkers for both iOS and Android. They now offer both the Flow Analyzer and Automation Process for Mobile devices. As stated by Evinced, “[Our] mobile accessibility solutions are built for enterprise-scale and can be used by any enterprise developers looking to test a mobile app for critical accessibility issues.”

Automation: How can the Evinced AI help developers? 

Unlike many of its rivals, Evinced relies on its very robust AI technology in order to do most of the heavy lifting. The cherry on top of their accessibility cake is that they cater extensively to QA engineers and developers.

The Evinced knowledge base for accessibility was made with two main functions in mind:

1. The primary purpose of what Evinced has provided is to offer complex explanations of the results of their testing, the roots of the problems uncovered, and suggestions about how to remedy these issues. 
2. The secondary goal of the Evinced AI is to create and develop an expansive, ever-evolving base of knowledge on web accessibility for both applications and websites. 

Now, what about this aforementioned “Knowledge base.” What does it consist of? Well, its contents are separated into six sections: 

• System validation – This is where the explanations for tests and validations are performed. The Evinced solutions for testing will provide an in-depth analysis of the root problems and suggest how to remediate them. This tool also monitors how users will be affected by any changes. Unfortunately, only Evinced issues and content pertaining to them can be found here. 
• Elements – This section is where HTML reviewing is done. The factors that permit inclusion are explained here, as well as those that could be impairing accessibility. The inspiration behind this was ARIA’s WAI system. 
• Widget Elements – This is where Evinced covers the HTML parts that handle interaction with users. This means form elements, buttons, and links. 
• Page Structure – This is where HTML elements that handle organization and structure are dealt with. Elements covered include images, tables, and lists. 
• Landmark Elements – This is where Evinced helps you define how your layout will look. The Evinced tech will help you make your UI streamlined and easy to navigate using AT (assistive technology). 
• A11y Concepts – This is where things such as the principles and the terminology of digital accessibility are handled. This is where you can find concepts for accessible naming, contrasts of color, accessibility trees, API, etc.

Evinced has made sure that all the content created through them is compliant with all WCAG and Section 508 regulations. 

As expected, there are different prices for each product. The iOS Accessibility Debugger is free, while you can get a good idea of the Evinced technology with a free version of the Site-Scanner to scan your entire website. The Site-Scanner can, at the minimum, crawl up to 1,500 pages at each scan crawl and scan a total of 50,000 URLs over the period of the trial.

The support system in place at Evinced is one of the best. They have provided demos explaining how every single part of their technology functions, as well as guides on the integration of Evinced automation SDK. Their iOS Accessibility Debugger can support both CocoaPod and Swift packages as SDK injections at this time. Their extensions, the User-flow Analyzer and the Dev Debugger can be easily integrated. 

In terms of actual customer service, there are multiple options for contact, and Evinced response times have been good. These are the forms of client care and customer service provided:

• Instruction manuals
• Phone service
• Email