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Regulatory compliance is dull, but company directors have to be certain they’re doing the right thing lest they end up with a fine or worse.

Accessibility compliance for mobile apps is increasingly mandated by law around the world, and Auditsu wants to step in to help give company leaders peace of mind that they’re doing the right thing.

Read on to find out more…

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Hard-to-use apps can have legal consequences. Auditsu wants to help.

Software accessibility isn’t just a nice thing to have, in many cases it’s a regulatory requirement.

The UK’s Equality Act, the EU’s European Accessibility Act, and the USA’s Americans with Disabilities Act all provide legal standards for making websites and apps broadly accessible.

However, making sure your shiny new mobile app is compliant with accessibility law isn’t necessarily easy. That’s where Auditsu wants to provide peace of mind for company directors and compliance officers.

“What we realised is all the tools that exist for accessibility are either for designers, or developers, or technical stakeholders. But the regulations apply to the non technical stakeholders, the directors, the owners of these businesses, and the boards of these businesses,” says Auditsu’s founder and CEO, Jason Crispin.

“It's written into law, and companies continue to ignore the legislation. It's the directors who could be held liable, and the problem they have is they don't have a tool to effectively measure and manage that risk.”

Hearing stories of companies spending huge amounts of money on accessibility audits from consultancy companies, Crispin was inspired to create a more efficient alternative.

Auditsu just requires an uploaded app file. The software then runs the app, emulating its performance across a range of devices. It can then rapidly assess the software against accessibility standards.

“We can start producing results within 40 seconds of the customer running their app through the platform. They don't need any technical know-how,” Crispin says.

“Essentially, it acts like a human expert would act when they're exploring a mobile application, without the requirement of having to look at the code.”

The story so far

Crispin has spent much of his career in recruitment, but in recent years he moved towards technology.

After building an app in 2023, he discovered the challenges around accessibility regulation compliance, spotted a gap in the market, and decided to go for it. He worked to validate the market, and then to validate a technical approach with the help of the University of Huddersfield.

In late 2024, he teamed up with CTO Simon Milner to build the product. They have recently been busy testing it on real apps to make sure it’s a robust offering, with a view to launching Auditsu commercially in 2026. But they’ll be careful about the types of apps they support at first.

“The challenge with mobile applications is there are no strict rules when it comes to how people build them and name them. There are a million edge cases, and so we will launch a platform that has a basic testing suite that will work across a defined set of app types.

“We can't test financial institution apps because there's challenges around automating that technology, and it's difficult to programmatically test an app that's got like a canvas-style structure, because it will just infinitely scroll and be searching across the canvas. Apps that are well structured, table-based, we’ll start deploying there.”

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