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Read moreAgentic Audits: Find 50% More High-Risk Accessibility Issues Than Automation Alone
Agentic Audits are AudioEye's on-demand accessibility audits. An AI agent operates the page rather than just reading its code, opening menus, filling in forms, and completing flows such as checkout. Pick any page and get findings with fix recommendations in the AudioEye Platform within 1 hour. We break down how an Agentic Audit works, and what it catches, below.
Author: Missy Jensen, Senior Content Strategist: AI Search and Discovery
Published: 10/08/2026
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An accessibility audit shows you which issues your site had on the day it ran, but not the day after. It says nothing about the day after. In the weeks after an audit, your team ships a new landing page, updates a checkout step, or swaps out a chat widget, and any of those changes can introduce an untested accessibility issue. Automated scanning catches some of them, but it only reads code and can’t test what happens when someone opens a menu or completes a form.
That's the gap AudioEye built Agentic Audits to close, and they're available now. Because an AI agent uses the page the way a real user would, Agnetic Audits find over 50% more high-risk issues than automation alone. Pick any page, and findings and fix recommendations land in the AudioEye platform within an hour.
What are Agentic Audits?
Agentic Audits are AudioEye's on-demand accessibility audits, in which an AI agent navigates a page as a person would. It opens menus, fills in forms, and works through flows like checkout. You pick the page. AudioEye delivers findings and fix recommendations in the AudioEye Platform within one hour.
What sets an Agentic Audit apart is that it uses the page itself, while automated scanning only reads a page’s code. That difference is why, in AudioEye testing, Agentic Audits find over 50% more high-risk issues than automation alone.
Why Sites Drift Out of Accessibility Between Audits
An accessibility audit is a snapshot. It covers the pages your team tested on the day your team tested them.
Websites don't hold still. Marketing launches a landing page. Engineering ships a new checkout step. A vendor updates a chat widget embedded on every page. Each change can introduce a new accessibility issue. None of those changes wait for your next audit cycle.
That gap is where legal and compliance risk accumulates. A page can be audited and fixed in January, but by March, a new form ships with an accessibility issue nobody has tested. Nothing catches it until the next audit, or until a user hits it and can't complete the task.
Agentic Audits close that gap. Instead of waiting for the next cycle, you test the page that just changed, or the one that's never been audited at all.
What Automated Scanning Can and Cannot Catch
Automated accessibility scanning reads a page's code, so it can't press a key, open a menu, or complete a checkout. That's exactly where many of the highest-risk accessibility issues live.
Scanning is still valuable. It runs continuously and checks every page at scale. It catches issues like missing alt text, insufficient color contrast, and missing form labels, the moment they appear. But scanning has a hard limit: it reads markup. It can't tell you what happens when a real person interacts with that markup, because it never interacts with anything.
Example: The Skip Link that Scans Clean, but Does Nothing
A “skip to main content” link lets a keyboard user skip navigation and get to the content, which is critical for users who are tabbing through 60 menu items to reach a paragraph.
An automated scan checks the page for a skip link and finds one. The markup is correct, the target exists, the attribute is right, so the scan comes back clean. Then a real user tabs to that link and presses Enter, and nothing happens because focus never moves.
It’s a more common failure than it sounds. When AudioEye asked five AI tools to build 15 accessible websites, 12 of them included a skip link, and not one worked.
Issues like this are why code reading only gets you so far. Nearly half of the issues in that study couldn’t be seen in the code at all, and only showed up when someone used the page. An Agentic Audit catches them because using the page is the entire method.
How an Agentic Audit Works
An Agentic Audit works by having an AI agent directly interact with a page. You choose the page in the AudioEye Platform and start the audit. There’s no setup beyond that.
The agent navigates the page using the same controls as a real user, interacting with menus, forms, buttons, and links. It tabs through interactive elements and opens the navigation menu. It types into a search field. It fills out and submits a contact form. On an e-commerce page, it adds an item to the cart and proceeds to checkout.
Each of those interactions is a chance to catch an issue that only shows up when someone actually uses the page:
A menu won’t close with the keyboard.
A form field that shows no visible error message
A checkout step that traps focus and blocks screen reader users from moving forward.
A modal dialog that opens correctly but doesn’t return to focus to the button that opened it.
A button that’s reachable by keyboard but doesn’t respond when a user presses ‘Enter’ or ‘Space.’
Findings and fix recommendations arrive in the AudioEye Platform within one hour. Each finding identifies what the agent tested, what happened, and a recommended fix drawn from AudioEye's Accessibility Intelligence, a dataset built on 14 years of work. Your developers review the recommendation and decide whether to apply it, rather than researching the WCAG 2.2 Level AA criteria from scratch. That review step is usually where the time savings show up most.
Each audit covers one page, and you can run multiple audits per day on whatever pages have just changed, without batching requests or waiting in a shared queue.
Automated Scanning, Agentic Audits, and Expert Audits Compared
AudioEye combines all three: automated scanning runs continuously, Agentic Audits let an AI agent operate any page on demand, and Expert Audits have trained testers verify pages using screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Expert Audits are still the most thorough option, because trained testers using assistive technology catch issues no automated or agent-based tool can reach, including judgment calls about whether an experience is genuinely usable rather than technically correct. Agentic Audits don’t replace that work. They cover the pages that change between Expert Audit cycles, so new work doesn’t sit untested for months.
Which Pages to Audit First
Start with checkout, login, and contact forms, then move to your highest-traffic templates. Those pages carry the most transactional risk. A broken checkout or login form stops a task cold instead of just slowing it down. They also carry the most interaction complexity: multiple fields, conditional logic, and steps a user has to complete in order. That’s exactly where an agent that uses the page catches more than a scan that reads it.
After that, prioritize any page your team has changed recently. A new campaign landing page or an updated template hasn’t been tested since the change shipped, which makes it the highest-value target.
The Gap Between Audits Doesn’t Have to go Untested
An Expert Audit is thorough. It's also a snapshot.
Every launch, template change, and third-party script update is a chance for a new issue to ship onto a page nobody has retested. That's the exposure a compliance program actually manages: everything that happens in the months after the audit closes.
Agentic Audits close that window. Automated scanning reads your code every day. Expert Audits test with assistive technology on a set cycle. Agentic Audits use the page in between, which is why they find over 50% more high-risk issues than automation alone in AudioEye testing.
The fix recommendations come from the data underneath it: 14 years of accessibility data and more than a million human reviews across more than 100,000 sites. They aren't a model's best guess. They come from work AudioEye's experts have already done.
Pick the page, and findings come back with fix recommendations in the AudioEye Platform within 1 hour.
Talk to an expert about running your first Agentic Audit.
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