Priyank joined Alex Sarlin on the EdTech Insiders podcast to talk about what ADA Title II means for EdTech, why accessibility is such a strong fit for AI, and how continuous compliance is starting to replace the annual-audit model.
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Why this conversation matters for EdTech companies
ADA Title II's digital expansion has a hard deadline: April 2026 for public entities serving populations over 50,000. That deadline doesn't apply to EdTech vendors directly, but it reaches them through procurement. Districts, state systems, and universities have to certify the software they buy is accessible. A vendor that can't demonstrate WCAG 2.1 AA conformance and produce a current VPAT is a vendor that gets pulled from the shortlist.
Most EdTech companies we talk to are aware of this, and most are stuck. They've run an audit. They have a spreadsheet of findings. They can't get their engineering teams to act on it fast enough to keep up with the deployment cadence. That's the gap we built Workback to close.
A few highlights from the episode
On why the industry is stuck:
"Nobody says I don't want accessibility. It's inaccessible to them because of knowledge, time, and investment."
On what AI changes:
"Our AI finds 50% more issues than the audits our customers were getting before. It's not about replacing human judgment. It's about running that judgment on every deploy instead of once a year."
On the shift from audits to continuous compliance: annual audits made sense when software shipped in slower release cycles. For any EdTech vendor deploying weekly or daily, the audit-and-remediate cycle is structurally too slow. The fix is not a faster audit. It's continuous evaluation plugged into the development workflow.
Listen to the full episode
Accessibility at Scale: How Priyank Chodisetti and Workback.ai Cut Compliance from Months to Days on the EdTech Insiders podcast, hosted by Alex Sarlin.
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