Honuby AFixt Conformance that keeps up.

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Your accessibility conformance record was out of date before anyone read it.

Honu is a conformance platform AFixt is building now. The goal is an accessibility record that stays current as your product changes, backed by evidence and signed by the person who checked it.

Need accessibility help now? Talk to AFixt's team

The record is written once. The product ships again and again after that, and each release moves it a little further from what the record says. Usually, nobody tracks how far.

A VPAT doesn't come with an expiry date. It probably should.

A VPAT or ACR describes your product on the day someone evaluated it. After that, the product keeps shipping, often every couple of weeks, for a year or more.

When procurement asks for it again, or legal asks if it's still accurate, the honest answer is usually that nobody knows. Finding out means paying for the full evaluation again.

The deadlines are fixed. ADA Title II requires public entities serving 50,000 people or more to meet WCAG 2.1 AA by 26 April 2027. Smaller entities have until 26 April 2028. In Europe, the European Accessibility Act already applies.

Overlay widgets won't fix this. Companies using accessibility widgets were sued in every month from January to June 2025, according to UsableNet's 2025 midyear report.

What we're building

Five steps that repeat for as long as your product keeps shipping.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Build an up-to-date list of what you have: pages, components and repositories.

  2. 02

    Test

    Collect evidence from automated scans, your CI pipeline and expert testers, and count each one as evidence.

  3. 03

    Aggregate

    Group individual findings by WCAG success criterion, so each claim has evidence behind it.

  4. 04

    Attest

    A qualified person reviews each criterion, confirms or overrides the result, and signs their name.

  5. 05

    Report

    Publish a record, including VPAT and EN 301 549 formats, where each line links to its evidence and the person who signed it.

Four things we've already decided

  • People sign off. AI helps.

    Software won't issue a conformance verdict on its own. Every claim in a Honu record will name the person who made it and list what they based it on.

  • Scanning is free. You pay for tracking.

    Scans will be free in every integration we ship, and you won't need an account to run one. The subscription will cover keeping your record up to date.

  • No metering.

    The number of pages, scans, API calls or seats won't change your price. Charging per scan just encourages teams to scan less.

  • Locked records stay locked.

    Once a record is finalised, it can't be changed. If a claim could be edited later, you couldn't rely on it.

What Honu isn't

  • Not an overlay or a widget. Honu won't inject code into your site to hide problems from scanners.
  • Not an automatic compliance verdict. Software can't determine conformance by itself, so Honu won't claim to.
  • Not a substitute for accessibility experts. It's meant to make their work last longer and easier to reuse.
  • Not ready yet. It's still in development. Sign up and we'll let you know when you can try it.

Who's building it

AFixt is an accessibility consultancy. Our team of experts does audits, conformance reports, remediation and longer-term programme work. Honu is meant to support that same work.

Some of the open-source tools Honu is built on are already public, including AFixt's React and linting packages. We've also published the UCDL specification.

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Need help now?

Honu isn't ready yet, but AFixt's audit team is working today. If you're facing a deadline, a procurement request or a demand letter, our team of experts can audit your websites and apps against more than 250 checkpoints that cover WCAG 2.2. We test with JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, TalkBack and Narrator on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. We also audit desktop software and documents.

Send us a URL. We'll tell you what we see before you commit to anything.

Someone on our team will reply within one business day.

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