Monitoring
Ongoing checks that catch new accessibility barriers as a website or app changes.
Monitoring is what keeps a product accessible after the first evaluation. Websites change every week: a new campaign page ships without alt text, a vendor update replaces a component, a redesign removes the focus style. Monitoring combines automated checks on every deploy or on a schedule, for the failures tools can catch, with periodic human review for the ones they cannot.
The W3C’s Planning and Managing Web Accessibility guide calls this phase sustain: continue to review and report on content, processes, and resources. The records monitoring produces, with dates, are also evidence of ongoing effort, which is what a customer, a buyer, or a regulator asks to see.
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