Capacity Gaps Are Slowing the Compliance Push
Accessibility and privacy compliance are no longer just policy problems; they’re becoming capacity and workflow problems for product teams.
What is this trend?
Accessibility and privacy rules are moving faster than teams can staff, budget, and operationalize them, making delivery capacity the main blocker to compliance.
- No budget or staff: many teams can’t remediate all sites and apps before deadlines.
- WCAG failures keep repeating: alt text, forms, keyboard nav, contrast, and captions.
- India’s DPDP readiness is uneven, with many firms still in assessment or governance catch-up.
- Compliance is shifting into design systems, QA gates, and remediation workflows.
- Teams now need repeatable delivery systems, not just policy awareness.
What’s the latest?
State accessibility leads are now quantifying the delivery gap: 67% report no dedicated accessibility budget, and 69% say they lack staff to remediate all websites and apps before the next deadline.
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