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Understanding the Digital Accessibility Market

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Please join Deque, for an insightful discussion with guest speaker Gina Bhawalkar, Principal Analyst for Forrester Research.

In this webinar, she covers The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025. Deque's CTO, Dylan Barrell, shares Deque's placement in the report. Gina and Dylan also discuss trends in the digital accessibility market and their predictions for the future.

Watch the webinar to learn about:

  • High-level findings from the The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025
  • Deque's placement in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025
  • Fireside chat between Gina and Dylan on recent trends and innovation in the digital accessibility market (AI, compliance shifts, how to scale your accessibility program, etc.)

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About the presenters

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Gina Bhawalkar

Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Gina's research focuses on digital accessibility and experience design. Gina established and now leads Forrester’s coverage of the digital accessibility space and has a deep background and interest in the topic. She advises organizations on how to establish and scale sustainable accessibility practices. Her research on accessibility has appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Brand, and she is a frequent speaker at accessibility conferences and events. Gina’s other areas of expertise include how to build and scale an experience design practice; inclusive design; design systems; and the intersection of user experience (UX) and customer experience (CX).

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Dylan Barrell

Chief Technology Officer

Dylan is the Chief Technology Officer at Deque. He has almost 20 years of experience in technology development, technical sales, product management, product marketing, and corporate development.

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Chart depicts The Forrester Wave™: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025. It plots vendors by strength of offering (vertical axis) and strength of strategy (horizontal axis). Deque appears near the top right corner, indicating a strong strategy and strong offering. Other vendors shown include Level Access and Siteimprove, who are one of three vendors who are in the Leader section of the chart with Deque, and UsableNet, Evinced, Allyant, Crownpeak, Acquia, and Silktide, which are placed lower or further left in the Strong Performers and Contenders areas.

Deque named a Leader 

In The Forrester Wave™️: Digital Accessibility Platforms, Q4 2025 report, Forrester stated:

  • Deque is consistently first to market with innovative features, including new testing approaches, genAI features, and most recently its MCP solution.
  • Deque focuses on integrating with tools that teams already use to bolster adoption. Its roadmap is straightforward and the result of extensive customer feedback.
  • Deque’s tools for designers and developers are a strength, and when combined with its chatbot they’re a powerful enabler for users who are new to accessibility.

 

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