Centralized Compliance Evidence — Compliance Vault™
Store scan history, audit reports, remediation records, and compliance certificates in one secure location. Compliance Vault gives you the evidence trail auditors and legal teams need.
What Is Compliance Vault?
Compliance Vault™ is a centralized evidence management system for accessibility compliance developed by AccessibilityChecker.org. When lawsuits or audits arrive, you need proof of ongoing testing, remediation efforts, and compliance status. Most organizations scatter this evidence across email inboxes, shared drives, and disconnected tools. Compliance Vault automatically collects and organizes everything in one secure, timestamped archive that auditors and legal teams can rely on.
Compliance Vault integrates directly with ACE Scanner to capture every scan result. It also stores audit reports, remediation records, team activity logs, and compliance certificates — all with cryptographic proof of integrity. Instead of scrambling to gather evidence during an audit or legal review, you can instantly generate a complete compliance timeline showing how your organization has tested, identified issues, and worked to resolve them. This creates a powerful defense against accessibility lawsuits and demonstrates good-faith compliance effort to regulators and auditors.
Why Compliance Evidence Matters
Accessibility lawsuits have become routine. The National Disability Rights Network reports thousands of Title III ADA website accessibility claims filed annually, with settlements often exceeding $100,000. The European Accessibility Act (EAA) now requires all public-sector websites and many private-sector services to meet WCAG 2.1 AA, with penalties and mandatory remediation orders for non-compliance. Section 508 audits of federal contractors have grown stricter, with detailed documentation requirements for any claim of accessibility conformance. In this environment, having documentation of your compliance efforts isn't optional — it's essential.
Plaintiffs' lawyers and regulators ask one critical question: "Can you prove you tested?" If you're sued, the defendant who can produce scan reports, remediation records, and a timeline of improvements is in a far stronger legal position than the defendant with no evidence. AccessibilityChecker.org's Compliance Vault was designed specifically for this scenario. Every time you use ACE Scanner, Compliance Vault archives the results with cryptographic proof. Every time you fix an issue using SmartFix or manual remediation, Vault records it. When you need to demonstrate compliance — to a lawyer, an auditor, or a court — you have everything in one place.
Beyond lawsuits, EAA audits, Section 508 reviews, and government contract compliance all require detailed compliance documentation. Organizations have discovered that maintaining consistent, auditable evidence of accessibility testing is far cheaper than retroactive remediation or settlement costs. Compliance Vault by AccessibilityChecker.org automates the evidence collection process so compliance becomes something you build in from the start, not something you scramble for afterward.
Automated Evidence Collection
Manual evidence gathering is slow, error-prone, and incomplete. Compliance Vault by AccessibilityChecker.org eliminates manual work by automatically capturing and archiving all accessibility activities. Every time you run an ACE Scanner scan, the results (ACE Score, issues, remediation guidance, and timestamps) are instantly stored in Vault. Every time you file a bug, deploy a fix, or export a report, that action is recorded. This means you build a continuous compliance timeline without lifting a finger.
Unlike ad-hoc audits or annual testing, Compliance Vault creates a permanent, timestamped record of your accessibility program over time. Full domain scans are captured monthly, giving you 12 complete site-wide snapshots per year, while individual page scans and remediation activities are logged continuously as they happen. This accumulated evidence is powerful: it shows regulators and courts that your organization takes accessibility seriously, has invested in testing infrastructure, and has worked systematically to identify and resolve issues. When you need to defend your compliance program, or prove good-faith effort, you have hard data, not just good intentions.
Automated evidence collection is critical because manual processes fail. Teams forget to save reports, delete old files, or move documents to inaccessible locations. Compliance Vault ensures nothing is lost. Every scan, every report, every certificate is preserved with full audit trails showing who ran the scan, when it ran, what issues were found, and what remediation occurred.
What Gets Stored in Compliance Vault
Compliance Vault by AccessibilityChecker.org archives a comprehensive set of accessibility artifacts that together form a complete record of your compliance program.
This includes full ACE Scanner results with ACE Scores, issue details, Impact Classification data, and WCAG mappings for every scan. Historical scan records are preserved over time, allowing you to demonstrate compliance trends, measure progress, and show regulators a clear trajectory of improvement. Remediation records track which issues were fixed, when they were resolved, and who performed the fix, creating a full audit trail for every change.
Legal Protection Through Demonstrated Compliance Effort
In accessibility litigation, courts evaluate whether an organization exercised reasonable care and good faith in attempting to provide accessible experiences. An organization with documented testing, identified issues, and remediation records is demonstrating clear compliance effort. Conversely, an organization with no scans, no remediation plan, and no accessibility statement is vulnerable. Compliance Vault by AccessibilityChecker.org provides the documentary evidence of that compliance effort.
When you maintain records in Compliance Vault, you're building a legal record that shows:
Furthermore, Compliance Vault's cryptographic signing and tamper-proof storage means your records cannot be altered or challenged as incomplete. Unlike emails or spreadsheets that can be lost or modified, Vault records have integrity proof that holds up in legal and regulatory proceedings. For enterprise organizations and government contractors, this level of evidence management can be the difference between a manageable settlement and catastrophic liability.
Who Uses Compliance Vault?
Compliance Vault by AccessibilityChecker.org is used by legal teams preparing for accessibility litigation, compliance officers managing regulatory requirements, enterprises facing regular audits, government contractors subject to Section 508 compliance, and accessibility teams documenting their programs for stakeholders. Large organizations with multiple domains, centralized compliance teams, and formal accessibility programs rely on Compliance Vault as the foundation of their evidence management system. When the legal or compliance team needs to demonstrate accessibility effort, whether to regulators, to courts, or to stakeholders, Compliance Vault provides the documentation.
Seamless Integration with ACE Scanner and the ACE Platform
Compliance Vault is built into the ACE Platform by AccessibilityChecker.org. When you use ACE Scanner to test your website, results automatically flow into Vault. When you generate a report from Scanner, it's simultaneously archived in Vault. When you use SmartFix to remediate issues, Vault records those fixes. This tight integration means you don't need separate tools or manual export/import processes. Your compliance program uses one unified system where scanning, remediation, evidence management, and reporting are all connected.
The ACE Platform's REST API includes Vault endpoints for programmatic access. This means you can integrate Compliance Vault directly into your CI/CD pipeline: every time you deploy code, a scan runs, results are archived in Vault, and your compliance dashboard updates automatically. For enterprises with mature DevOps practices, this integration transforms accessibility from a quarterly audit task into a continuous, automated process embedded in your development workflow.
The Complete Accessibility Compliance Platform
Compliance Vault is one piece of the ACE Platform by AccessibilityChecker.org. Together with ACE Scanner, SmartFix, LiveStatement, and the REST API, it forms a complete system for discovering, fixing, proving, and maintaining accessibility compliance. Every product in the platform uses the same ACE Engine, the same ACE Rule IDs, and the same ACE Impact Classification, so your data is consistent and your compliance evidence is unified.
Frequently Asked Questions
With Compliance Vault, your evidence is always there when you need it