Evinced raises $17M in Series A funding to automate web accessibility
Summary
Evinced Inc., a startup that has built tools designed to make websites and software applications more accessible to people with disabilities, said today it has raised $17 million in an early-stage round of funding. Evinced founder and Chief Executive Navin Thadani explained that his company has built artificial intelligence-based software that’s able to visually analyze websites and applications, create a structural semantic model and then compare this with the underlying code base to detect any accessibility issues they might have. Not only is it a moral duty, but also a legal one for many enterprises, as Evinced points to a huge rise in the number of web-related lawsuits linked to rules around accessibility compliance in the Americans with Disabilities Act. That’s where Envinced’s tools come in: helping automate accessibility checks throughout the software development cycle and suggest code changes to remediate any issues it finds. Finally, it offers a software-as-a-service-based Site Scanner tool that’s able to crawl websites and apps, analyze them for accessibility issues and suggest fixes.