Qualibooth

Qualibooth provides a powerful suite of digital accessibility solutions designed to help organizations turn accessibility into a competitive advantage. It empowers businesses of all sizes, from single storefronts to global enterprises, to comply with critical digital accessibility standards, enhance team efficiency, and deliver superior, inclusive user experiences. The platform's core mission is to eliminate barriers to accessibility by combining innovative software with human expertise, ensuring websites not only meet legal requirements but also offer meaningful customer interactions.

The platform is built around two main components: the Accessibility Toolkit and Agora. The Toolkit allows for comprehensive monitoring and detection of accessibility issues, while Agora, an AI-powered development assistant, integrates directly into existing workflows. This combination provides a robust framework for identifying and resolving issues before they impact users, protecting businesses from legal risks and strengthening brand reputation.

How to use Qualibooth

Getting started with Qualibooth is a straightforward process designed for quick implementation:

1. Choose a Plan: Select a subscription plan (Standard, Advanced, Premium, or Enterprise) based on your organization's needs, such as traffic volume, number of users, and websites. A 7-day free trial is available.
2. Use the Accessibility Toolkit: Begin by scanning your website on-demand to get an initial accessibility report. The toolkit continuously monitors your site to detect new issues as they arise.
3. Deploy Agora for Developers: For development and QA teams, download and install Agora, the developer's workbench. Use it to scan pages in real-time as you code, including on localhost and behind login screens.
4. Analyze and Prioritize: Review the detailed reports which include on-page issue visualizations, page scoring, and issue prioritization. This helps teams focus on the most critical fixes first.
5. Remediate with AI Assistance: Leverage Agora+ for AI-driven guidance. It provides robust descriptions of issues, explains the user impact, validates attributes like Alt text, and generates individualized HTML, CSS, and script snippets to solve the problem at the source.
6. Integrate and Collaborate: Connect Qualibooth with your existing tools like JIRA to streamline task management and collaboration across cross-functional teams.
7. Generate Compliance Documents: Automatically generate Accessibility Statements to demonstrate your commitment and compliance with regulations.

Core Features of Qualibooth

• Accessibility Toolkit: Provides continuous monitoring and on-demand scanning to detect accessibility issues across your websites.
• Agora Developer Workbench: A downloadable application for real-time scanning of dynamic content, localhost environments, and authenticated pages.
• Agora+ AI Assistant: An enhanced version of Agora that uses AI to provide deep issue analysis, user impact descriptions, and actionable code snippets for remediation.
• Comprehensive Compliance: Ensures adherence to major accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.0, 2.2, ADA, and the European Accessibility Act (EAA).
• On-Page Visualization: Visually highlights accessibility errors directly on the webpage, making them easier to identify and understand.
• Issue Prioritization & Reporting: Generates detailed reports and prioritizes issues, allowing teams to tackle the most critical problems efficiently.
• Workflow Integration: Offers seamless integration with development tools like JIRA and provides APIs for custom workflows.
• Enhanced Data Security: An on-premises application option is available for organizations with strict data security, privacy, and government regulations.
• Accessibility Statement Generation: Automates the creation of accessibility statements to formalize your compliance efforts.

Use Cases for Qualibooth

Qualibooth is designed for various roles within an organization:

• Developers: Can adopt a "shift-left" approach, identifying and fixing accessibility issues during the development cycle using real-time scanning and AI-generated code snippets.
• Auditors and QA Teams: Can significantly speed up accessibility audits with powerful scanning tools, detailed reporting, and issue prioritization.
• Content Managers: Can verify that new content is accessible before it goes live, using clear guidance and validation tools.
• eCommerce & Retail Brands: Can ensure their online stores are compliant with the EAA and accessible to all customers, improving user experience and expanding market reach.
• Large Enterprises: Can manage and maintain accessibility compliance across multiple digital assets, brands, and teams, mitigating legal risks on a global scale.

Advantages of Qualibooth

Qualibooth offers several key advantages:

• Proactive Compliance: Fix issues at the source, rather than relying on temporary overlay widgets.
• Team Efficiency: Integrates into existing developer and content workflows, saving time and resources.
• Actionable Insights: Provides contextualized guidance and code samples, empowering teams to fix issues correctly.
• Scalability: Solutions are designed to scale from small businesses to complex, multi-brand enterprises.
• Enhanced Security: The on-premises option ensures that sensitive data remains secure and compliant with enterprise policies.
• AI-Powered Remediation: Agora+ accelerates training and remediation by providing clear explanations and ready-to-use code solutions.

Pricing and Plans

Qualibooth offers a tiered pricing structure with a 20% saving on annual contracts. A 7-day free trial is available.

• Accessibility Toolkit - Standard: €59/month (billed annually). Includes 100K pageviews/month, 1 user, 1 website.
• Accessibility Toolkit - Advanced: €159/month (billed annually). Includes 1M pageviews/month, 3 users, 3 websites, 1 Agora Workbench seat, and JIRA integration.
• Accessibility Toolkit - Premium: €399/month (billed annually). Includes 10M pageviews/month, 10 users, 5 websites, 3 Agora Workbench seats, JIRA integration, and API access.
• Accessibility Toolkit - Enterprise: Custom pricing. Unlimited pageviews, users, and websites, 10 Agora Workbench seats, and full integrations.

Agora Add-ons (requires a Toolkit license):

• Agora Workbench: €100 per seat/month.
• Agora+: €125 per seat/month (requires a standard Agora license).