ABLE Score
Over 100 million people worldwide have visual impairment and rely on screen readers to navigate digital content. Our open standard monitors digital accessibility across organizations to foster transparency, inclusion and accountability.
The ABLE Framework
What is an ABLE Score?
Tracks the % of your digital surface meeting ADA compliance standards
Measures your performance relative to peers in your sector
Tracks your rate of improvement — a signal of ongoing commitment
Tracks the number of visitors directly harmed by inaccessible content
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Our AI will scan your website and PDFs using a screen-reader
How It Works
Our AI is ABLE to use a screen reader to get full test coverage on compliance standards.
Accessibility
“Tracks % of digital surface that meets compliance standards”
Why It Matters
The Accessibility component measures the proportion of an organization's public-facing digital content — webpages and documents — that meets established accessibility standards. It provides a single, objective metric for the most foundational question: how much of this content is usable by people with disabilities?
How We Measure
Automated crawlers discover all public webpages and PDFs across the domain. Each asset is validated against WCAG 2.2 AA and PDF/UA-2, producing a compliance ratio across the following frameworks:
Benchmarking
“Tracks performance relative to sector peers”
Why It Matters
An isolated score lacks context. The Benchmarking component positions each organization within its sector, revealing whether it leads, lags, or tracks with peers. Relative standing directly influences prioritization and resource allocation decisions.
How We Measure
Accessibility data is collected and analyzed across all organizations within the same sector. The Benchmarking score reflects a percentile rank — a uniform, externally measured position, not self-reported data.
Leadership
“Tracks rate of change as an indicator of institutional commitment”
Why It Matters
A point-in-time score captures current state but not direction. The Leadership component measures whether an organization is actively improving, stagnating, or regressing — the strongest observable signal of institutional commitment to accessibility.
How We Measure
Monthly scans produce a 12-month trend line. The Leadership score is derived from the rate of improvement and whether that rate is accelerating or decelerating. Consistency of progress is weighted alongside magnitude.
Equity
“Quantifies the number of visitors directly affected”
Why It Matters
Standards and rankings are abstractions. The Equity component translates non-compliance into its human consequence: the estimated number of people with disabilities who encounter barriers on the organization's digital properties.
How We Measure
Web traffic data is cross-referenced with regional disability population statistics to estimate the number of real users affected by current accessibility gaps — not theoretical risk, but observed impact.