Accessibility as a Service: compliance that holds between audits.

A service delivery model where an organisation outsources its digital accessibility requirements to a specialist provider that ensures ongoing compliance with standards such as WCAG 2.2 AA. It replaces one-off compliance checks with continuous monitoring, regular auditing, and expert remediation across websites and digital platforms.

An audit is a snapshot of one moment. AaaS is a standing arrangement: scans run on a schedule, new pages enter scope automatically, regressions raise alerts, and remediation is continuous. The audit tells you where you were; AaaS tells you where you are, and keeps you there.

It's the part of the Zylyn portal where the service is run and evidenced. It holds every site and page in scope, the scan schedule for each, violation and pass counts, score trends over time, PDF document coverage, alerting, and team and client access. It's how a continuous programme stays auditable rather than living in a folder of PDF reports.

A live compliance picture instead of a stale report. Page-level scan history, score trends showing whether you're improving or drifting, alerts when a passing page starts failing, per-team and per-client separation for multi-brand or agency setups, and exportable evidence when legal, a procurement team, or a regulator asks what your posture is.

Teams that ship frequently and can't re-audit every release; organisations with several brands, sites, or business units to keep in scope; regulated and public sector bodies that must evidence ongoing conformance rather than a one-time result; and agencies managing accessibility on behalf of client portfolios.

A retail team ships a new checkout step on a Tuesday. The scheduled scan picks it up that night and flags an unlabelled payment field and a focus trap in the modal. An alert reaches the named accessibility lead, the issues are triaged as critical, remediated that week, and the fix is verified with a screen reader — with the whole sequence recorded in the governance module. Without AaaS, that defect sits live until the next annual audit.

No. It carries the specialist load — monitoring, expert review, and remediation guidance — while your team keeps ownership of the product. Most engagements include training so internal capability grows rather than a permanent dependency forming.

WCAG 2.2 AA as the working standard, which also covers WCAG 2.1 and 2.0 conformance. That maps to ADA Title II and III, Section 508, EN 301 549 and the EAA, and AODA, so one programme covers the digital requirements of most major jurisdictions.