Accessibility Repair

Accessibility repair refers to the process of identifying and fixing accessibility barriers in digital content, ranging from manual remediation by developers to automated tools that can detect and correct certain violations programmatically. Automated repair tools aim to go beyond evaluation by not only flagging accessibility problems but also proposing or applying fixes, such as adding missing alternative text, correcting heading hierarchies, or inserting ARIA attributes. While many accessibility issues require human judgment to repair properly, automated repair can address a subset of common, well-defined violations and reduce the manual effort needed to achieve compliance.