DigitalNet.ai has released Athena, an automated accessibility compliance solution that brings websites, codebases and document repositories into compliance with global accessibility standards including Section 508. The release lands just ahead of next month’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
“Most organizations do not struggle with accessibility because they lack tools,” DigitalNet.ai CEO Ken Bajaj said. “They struggle because those tools lack comprehensiveness and the organizations themselves lack operational continuity and capacity. Athena leverages leading-edge agentic AI capabilities to make accessibility compliance easier, faster and more comprehensive than it has ever been before.”
Built on DigitalNet’s agentic platform JanusAI, Athena is the first solution of its kind to operate across websites, codebases and documents. It finds accessibility issues, suggests remediations and uses human-AI paired coding to generate production-ready fixes with technical explanations. Developers can review the recommendations and accept, edit or reject them, preserving human judgment and making every accessibility team member more efficient. Athena also flags issues that affect multiple user populations so teams can prioritize remediation and triage problems blocking critical user journeys.
Beyond detection, Athena provides evidence for every issue it finds, helping developers and content creators avoid the same problems going forward and building broader awareness across organizations. For websites and codebases, Athena uses orchestration and memory capabilities to keep accessibility quality intact across releases and updates.
Regulatory agencies worldwide have set standards requiring digital information to be accessible to people with vision, hearing or intellectual disabilities. In the U.S., the predominant standards are Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 (A/AA/AAA) and 2.2. In the European Union, the primary standard is EN 301 549. Athena supports all four.
Organizations have historically performed compliance audits manually, if they performed them at all, or relied on scanning software that often considered only a single perspective.
Athena uses seven AI agent perspectives to scan for issues that may challenge users with visual or motor impairments, cognitive impairment, red-green colorblindness, green blindness or low vision. The scans run simultaneously, with results, evidence and suggested remediations returned to the user.
“It has never been easier for organizations of any kind to be accessibility compliant,” Bajaj said. “We are pleased to bring this solution to bear and see it as yet another example of the transformative power of agentic AI.”