Category: Accessibility

Your Accessibility Score Is Not a Compliance Strategy

An automated accessibility score measures what a scanner can detect, which is a minority of WCAG. A site can score 95 and still be impossible to use with a keyboard.

Oct 12, 2026

What the Publish Gate Actually Checks

Windrow's publish gate blocks a page that fails. Here is every check it runs, the four it only warns about, and the label I took back.

Oct 7, 2026

The Five Accessibility Failures I Find on Almost Every Site

After 300-plus WCAG audits, five issues account for most findings: alt text, heading order, unlabeled fields, vague links, and contrast. Four are machine-detectable. The fifth needs you.

Sep 21, 2026

I'm building a CMS that won't let you publish an inaccessible page

Windrow is a website builder with an automated publish gate. If a page fails WCAG 2.2 Level AA, it does not go live. Not a warning banner, not a score you can dismiss, a gate.

Sep 8, 2026

The deadline moved and that's worse news than it sounds

Public entities serving 50,000 or more people now have until April 26, 2027 to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Smaller entities and special district governments have until April 26, 2028.

Aug 24, 2026

The scan passed and the page still failed

Automated checkers see color values, not painted pixels. What a silently unrendered overlay taught me about trusting green checkmarks.

Aug 8, 2026