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Insights to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving landscape of digital accessibility.
axe Assistant Trusted generative AI chatbot for accessibility
Get instant answers to your digital accessibility questions and deepen your expertise with industry-leading AI tools.
Why use axe Assistant?
Fast and convenient
Works efficiently across the systems you use most—including the web—with Deque University, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
Accurate
Powered by Deque University, the industry’s largest and most authoritative source of digital accessibility knowledge.
Secure
Runs on a closed, enterprise-grade AI system to ensure consistent answers and keep your data secure.
Axe Assistant delivers instant answers
Reduce your backlog and free up accessibility teams to focus where they’re needed most.
Build accessible code, faster
Whether you’re creating a new component or fixing an old one, all you have to do is ask and get answers without delay. Axe Assistant helps developers stay productive by generating accessible code as they work, providing immediate, practical support that keeps teams moving forward.
Upskill your dev team with trusted guidance
Axe Assistant is more than just a coding tool—it’s a go-to resource for answering any accessibility question. Teams can trust they will get accurate, expert-backed answers, without ever being overwhelmed by accessibility guidelines.
Stay aligned with accessibility standards
You don’t have to be an accessibility expert to create an accessible experience. Axe Assistant is a chatbot that makes sure you meet compliance requirements and accessibility best practices without having to slow down.
Who is axe Assistant for?
QA/Testers
Quick, quality accessibility information from a reliable source.
Developers
24/7 code remediation support based on Deque’s always up-to-date knowledge base.
Inclusive UX/UI Designers
Real-time design guidance and documentation for accessibility implementation.
Accessibility Teams
On-demand expertise, code analysis, training, support, standards translation, and compliance tracking.
Want to pair Deque’s digital accessibility expertise with your own chatbot?
With the Deque Data License, your teams get the right answers—in your own secure environment. By integrating the Deque Data License into your internal AI chatbot, you can deliver trusted, expert-backed answers instantly—reducing backlog and helping accessibility teams focus where they’re needed most. All within your secure, private environment.
Additional resources
Blog Axe Assistant: Expert answers to any digital accessibility question, instantly
Learn how axe Assistant empowers teams to build accessible digital experiences
Tools The ultimate digital accessibility testing toolkit
Check our our axe DevTools solution for the most comprehensive automated accessibility testing toolkits for web and mobile.
Frequently asked questions
You can access axe Assistant on the web with a valid Deque University subscription. Just log into Deque University with your credentials, and start using it right away.
You can access axe Assistant via Slack or Microsoft Teams if you purchased your Deque University subscription through a Deque sales rep. Just file a Help Desk ticket to get access.
If you haven’t purchased a Deque University subscription through a sales rep—whether you bought online, use SCORM, or don’t yet subscribe— and want access to the Slack and Teams integration, you’ll need to make a separate purchase to get access to axe Assistant in those environments.
Axe Assistant instantly answers your accessibility questions and remediates code, and it is available 24/7.
Axe Assistant is the perfect partner to manual testing as users can ask questions to understand what they need to test, generate fixes, and learn about compliance requirements quickly and efficiently.
Axe Assistant is a specialized tool solely focused on digital accessibility. It can understand and accurately respond to nuanced and specialized digital accessibility questions that more general tools are likely to misunderstand or misinterpret.
Axe Assistant has exclusive access to Deque’s proprietary knowledge base and is able to draw on expert information not available anywhere else. More general tools have to rely on widely available and more generalized sources, and are more likely to provide incomplete or inaccurate answers accordingly.
If you want trustworthy answers that draw on exclusive, industry-leading expertise and the most robust digital accessibility library available, axe Assistant is the right choice.
Axe Assistant can augment large volumes of queries, lowering operational costs. It helps answer accessibility questions with a reputable source so experts can dedicate resources to more challenging issues rather than just base-level conformance.