1. Discover
Define scope, assets, environments, standards, priority journeys, access requirements, dependencies, and deliverables.
The Blindspot Digital Accessibility Engineering Lifecycle
A repeatable, evidence-based methodology connecting scope, analysis, remediation, verification, reporting, and residual-risk management.
2. Analyze
Validate potential findings, remove false positives, collect evidence, assess user impact, and identify root causes and systemic patterns.
3. Prioritize
Rank work according to impact, severity, frequency, business importance, systemic reach, dependencies, effort, and residual risk.
4. Remediate
Develop practical engineering solutions, technical guidance, component corrections, reviewed files, or implementation plans.
5. Verify
Retest the implemented solution, confirm that the barrier is removed, check for regressions, and document unresolved limitations.
6. Report
Deliver audience-appropriate executive, technical, remediation, evidence, and verification outputs without exposing proprietary internal methods unnecessarily.
Scope and accountability matter
Every engagement records inclusions, exclusions, sampling boundaries, third-party dependencies, responsibilities, phase completion criteria, and change-control conditions. Untested assets are never implied to be conformant.
Automation supports the work
Automated checks identify repeatable patterns, but they cannot reliably determine context, meaning, usability, interaction quality, or whether a person can complete a real workflow. Professional analysis and manual verification remain central.
Success is more than issue counts
Meaningful progress may include critical barriers removed, priority journeys restored, systemic components corrected, verified remediation rates improved, regressions reduced, and repeated defects prevented.
Methodology operationalized by NOW
Nexus Operations Workbench supports the internal execution of the lifecycle by organizing scope, evidence, findings, remediation priorities, validation status, residual risk, reporting, and project history.
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