Equal access is the law's actual goal.
WCAG was written in 1999 because assistive tech could only parse HTML literally. Today, multimodal AI can look at a page and adapt it for the individual reading it — and it can find the real barriers a site owner needs to fix.
Wholisphere is building the infrastructure for that shift. We scan a site, find the real WCAG issues, and generate an honest VPAT based only on what the scan found. Separately, our assistive agent — a screen reader, voice navigator, captioner, content simplifier, and focus enhancer — adapts the page for the individual end user, coexisting with native assistive tech, never replacing it. That agent helps a reader; it does not make the site compliant, and we never present it as if it does. Source-code remediation, verified by re-scan, is in development.
Our principles
- Honesty over claims. We never say a site is WCAG-compliant because of our agent. Our conformance report reflects only what the scan found — nothing derived or inferred — and open issues stay disclosed.
- Coexistence over replacement. Our widget is a landmark. Screen-reader users find it via standard navigation and choose what to engage with.
- Audit trail by default. Every agent action is logged. Customers can hand a court the JSON.
- The disability community shapes the product. We pay disabled testers from day one (Fable.tech), partner with disability creators on positioning, and submit our work to W3C/WAI for review.
- The widget itself is AAA. Our accessibility tool can never be the worst accessibility on the page.
Standards we follow
- WCAG 2.2 Level A + AA (automated + assisted coverage; AAA opt-in for federal RFPs)
- EN 301 549 (EU)
- Section 508 (US federal)
- W3C ACT Rules (auditor-trusted automated test rules)
Get in touch
Press, partnerships, or to chat about the agent vs. overlay debate — reach out via the contact form, or email hello@wholisphere.ai directly.