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Deque Systems
American digital accessibility company From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Deque Systems (/ˈdiːkjuː/ DEE-kew) is a digital accessibility company based in Herndon, Virginia with additional offices in Kavuri Hills Madhapur, Hyderabad India and Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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History
The CEO of Deque Systems is Preety Kumar.[1]
The company was started in 1999 and produces accessibility testing software in addition to offering accessibility consulting services and training.[citation needed]
In June, 2015 Deque open-sourced the accessibility rules engine axe-core.[2]
In May 2020, the WorldSpace brand name was retired and replaced by axe for each of Deque's products.[3]
In September 2020, Deque found that the majority of vote by mail applications were inaccessible, and fixed them for the 2020 Presidential Election.[4][5][6][7]
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Products
Deque tools, services and training are used to achieve compliance in support of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines,[8] the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 508 and EN 301 549.[9]
Deque University is a collection of online accessibility training courses covering a range of topics from introductory level to expert-level International Association of Accessibility Professionals CPACC.[10]
Axe Core
axe is a suite of accessibility testing tools for HTML, Android, and iOS applications. Each product in the axe toolkit is powered by the open source rules engine axe-core.[11][12]
Products within the axe suite include: axe Devtools, axe Monitor and axe Auditor.
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