No Expertise Required, AI Evaluates Website Accessibility with One Click, Automatically Generates Reports: Tool 'AXY' Officially Launched
STYZ Inc. has officially launched "AXY" (Akshee), an accessibility evaluation tool utilizing generative AI, designed to make accessibility improvements more accessible. The tool requires no specialized knowledge and generates reports automatically, aiming to ensure everyone can access information equally. AXY also offers unique evaluation criteria beyond standard accessibility, supporting customized assessments.
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Generative AI Makes Accessibility Improvements More Accessible. AXY (Akshee)
STYZ Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Tatsuya Tanaka; hereinafter referred to as "CULUMU"), which operates the inclusive design studio CULUMU that co-creates with diverse users, will officially launch "AXY" (Akshee), an accessibility evaluation tool utilizing generative AI, on Wednesday, April 15, 2026.
■Background of Development and CULUMU's Vision
With the spread of digital technology, service provision through websites has become common, making the creation of accessible environments that everyone can use indispensable. Starting with the publication of the "Web Accessibility Introduction Guidebook" by the Digital Agency, the adoption of accessibility-aware design and development support is progressing across a wide range of industries.
Furthermore, with the enforcement of the revised Act on Promotion of Smooth Business Operator-Customer Relations, etc. (disability discrimination) in April 2024, private companies are now obligated to provide reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. As a foundation for preparing environments that accurately respond to this, the importance of ensuring Web accessibility is rapidly increasing.
Under the vision of "Designing a rich society that creates no barriers," CULUMU has been working with many companies on the practice and social implementation of inclusive design. To realize a society where no one is left behind, ensuring "Web accessibility" that allows everyone to access information equally is essential. However, in practice, there are challenges such as "not knowing where to start" and "lack of specialized knowledge and resources."
Therefore, to support the development of accessible products in the digital domain, we have developed "AXY" as a tool that anyone can easily use to evaluate and improve accessibility, without specialized knowledge, and have officially launched its provision.
■3 Features of AXY
1. No Expertise Required, Simple One-Click Operation
AXY is provided as a browser extension. Simply open the website to be evaluated and press a button, and anyone, regardless of specialized knowledge, can perform high-quality inspections with the same ease as daily browsing. It also supports evaluation of sites under development or in private environments, allowing for seamless integration of accessibility verification into all phases of development.
Furthermore, with an eye towards integration into corporate development workflows and system interoperability, API provision is planned to begin around June 2026.
An image of AXY operating as a browser extension, performing accessibility evaluations on a website.
2. High-Precision Integrated Analysis with Generative AI x World-Standard Verification Engine
Generative AI handles the "visual and contextual checks" that experts previously performed manually, while the world-standard verification engine "axe-core" performs "code analysis." This resolves the issue of traditional automatic checking tools being unable to understand the creator's intent or context, achieving practical and highly accurate evaluations as if an expert were providing support next to you.
A process of high-precision integrated analysis combining cutting-edge AI visual inspection assistance with the world-standard verification engine "axe-core".
3. Automatic Report Generation for Smooth Sharing and Correction Requests
Evaluation results are automatically output in PDF format, clearly stating the problematic areas and specific improvement suggestions. This removes the "barrier of specialized terminology" unique to accessibility, significantly reducing communication costs for information sharing within teams and for requesting corrections from developers, leading to prompt and decisive improvement actions.
A sample of the automatically generated PDF evaluation report, detailing problem areas and specific improvement suggestions.
■AXY's Unique Evaluation Criteria: Diverse Design Evaluation Beyond Accessibility
AXY's evaluation foundation has extensibility beyond standard accessibility evaluations. By utilizing CULUMU's proprietary database cultivated through inclusive design practices, it can be applied to evaluations from emotional and cognitive perspectives, such as "easy-to-understand Japanese expressions," "correct use of specialized terminology," and "adherence to design guidelines."
Furthermore, it supports custom customization according to the needs of adopting companies, such as adding industry-specific check items and company-unique evaluation metrics.
In addition to standard accessibility evaluations, emotional and cognitive evaluation items such as "easy-to-understand Japanese check" using a proprietary database.
■AXY Introduction Comprehensively Supports Corporate Accessibility Improvement
It reduces the workload for personnel involved in accessibility initiatives and resolves issues faced by the field, such as "lack of time" and "lack of confidence in judgment."
Use Cases
Accessibility Promotion Staff
- As a tool to establish a company-wide common accessibility verification process
Internal WEB Master
- Enables self-departmental execution of accessibility inspections for created websites
Development/Design Team
- Understands the background of issues and smoothly initiates specific accessibility corrections
Staff with Limited Knowledge
- Understands the reasons for user barriers and can request corrections that consider individual circumstances
AXY supports users in different roles within an organization, such as promotion staff, WEB masters, and production teams, in an end-to-end manner.
Furthermore, CULUMU provides comprehensive support for improving the overall accessibility of a company, starting from supporting the formulation of accessibility policies to designing operational processes within the organization and providing technical knowledge and insights.
CULUMU Accessibility aims for long-term accessibility improvement through collaboration between corporate web/app personnel, production companies, accessibility specialists, and individuals facing social issues.
CULUMU Accessibility
■Voices from Early Adopters: Case Studies from Production Companies and Website Production Teams
We exhibited at "Design Ship 2025," one of Japan's largest design conferences, and received a great deal of positive feedback from designers and product managers active on the front lines.
Designer at a Business Company
"The feature to export evaluation results directly in PDF format is excellent! It significantly reduces the effort required to create internal reports and feedback materials for the development team, which is very helpful."
Product Manager at an IT Company
"I definitely want to introduce this at our company! Currently, accessibility evaluations are manually performed by members with specialized knowledge, which is a heavy burden. If this tool can take over human judgment, I expect our operational efficiency to improve dramatically."
Director at a Production Company
"It's wonderful that the evaluation results come out in an easy-to-understand report format. Until now, we haven't been able to undertake accessibility evaluation work itself due to a lack of resources, but this makes me feel it's possible to handle client work with this."
AXY exhibition scene at Design Ship 2025
Scenes of interaction with visitors at Design Ship 2025
■Inquiries Regarding This Matter and Tool Usage
1. Regarding AXY Implementation and Usage
Please consult us via "Request for Materials / Inquiries" on the AXY dedicated page.
https://axy.culumu.com/
2. Inquiries Regarding Accessibility and Inclusive Design
For consultations on specific site improvements based on AXY's evaluation results, the introduction of inclusive design co-created with diverse users, building internal systems, and other comprehensive initiatives, please contact us via the following:
https://culumu.com/contact
About Inclusive Design Studio CULUMU
CULUMU's support includes "Support for creating new businesses incorporating co-creation processes," "Research support for discovering sharp insights," "Prototyping support to give shape to ideas," "Support for space and architectural design that is friendly to everyone," and "Branding and accessibility support to maximize value."
Inclusive Design Studio CULUMU is a group of experts that co-creates with diverse stakeholders, including the elderly, people with disabilities, and foreigners, to support business development. Its greatest feature is its unique research panel, which leverages a network of over 5,000 non-profit organizations. This enables matching and qualitative research with people who were previously difficult to reach. Its mechanism, highly praised for "supporting development in close proximity to stakeholders," received the 2024 Good Design Award. With over 100 transaction records from major corporations to startups, CULUMU has undertaken numerous projects promoting social problem-solving and DE&I in collaboration with partners such as NPOs and research institutions.
STYZ Inc. Overview
STYZ Inc. aims to implement new values in society by discovering issues from the perspective of stakeholders and connecting people, markets, systems, and technology.
Donation Platform Business (Syncable): Promotes new financial inflows to the non-profit sector.
Inclusive Design Business (CULUMU): Simultaneously solves corporate and social issues.
Technology Business (STYZ Tech): Creates human-centered experiences through next-generation technology.
Company Name: STYZ Inc.
Representative: Tatsuya Tanaka, President and Representative Director
Capital: 5,725,000 yen
Sales: Confidential
Established: March 2016
Number of Employees: 60 (including contractors)
HP:
Corporate Site (https://styz.io/)
Donation Platform Business (https://syncable.biz/)
Inclusive Design Business (https://culumu.com/)
Technology Business (https://styz.io/tech)
Address: 102 Quest Court Harajuku, 3-59-4 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0051
STYZ Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Tatsuya Tanaka; hereinafter referred to as "CULUMU"), which operates the inclusive design studio CULUMU that co-creates with diverse users, will officially launch "AXY" (Akshee), an accessibility evaluation tool utilizing generative AI, on Wednesday, April 15, 2026.
■Background of Development and CULUMU's Vision
With the spread of digital technology, service provision through websites has become common, making the creation of accessible environments that everyone can use indispensable. Starting with the publication of the "Web Accessibility Introduction Guidebook" by the Digital Agency, the adoption of accessibility-aware design and development support is progressing across a wide range of industries.
Furthermore, with the enforcement of the revised Act on Promotion of Smooth Business Operator-Customer Relations, etc. (disability discrimination) in April 2024, private companies are now obligated to provide reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. As a foundation for preparing environments that accurately respond to this, the importance of ensuring Web accessibility is rapidly increasing.
Under the vision of "Designing a rich society that creates no barriers," CULUMU has been working with many companies on the practice and social implementation of inclusive design. To realize a society where no one is left behind, ensuring "Web accessibility" that allows everyone to access information equally is essential. However, in practice, there are challenges such as "not knowing where to start" and "lack of specialized knowledge and resources."
Therefore, to support the development of accessible products in the digital domain, we have developed "AXY" as a tool that anyone can easily use to evaluate and improve accessibility, without specialized knowledge, and have officially launched its provision.
■3 Features of AXY
1. No Expertise Required, Simple One-Click Operation
AXY is provided as a browser extension. Simply open the website to be evaluated and press a button, and anyone, regardless of specialized knowledge, can perform high-quality inspections with the same ease as daily browsing. It also supports evaluation of sites under development or in private environments, allowing for seamless integration of accessibility verification into all phases of development.
Furthermore, with an eye towards integration into corporate development workflows and system interoperability, API provision is planned to begin around June 2026.
An image of AXY operating as a browser extension, performing accessibility evaluations on a website.
2. High-Precision Integrated Analysis with Generative AI x World-Standard Verification Engine
Generative AI handles the "visual and contextual checks" that experts previously performed manually, while the world-standard verification engine "axe-core" performs "code analysis." This resolves the issue of traditional automatic checking tools being unable to understand the creator's intent or context, achieving practical and highly accurate evaluations as if an expert were providing support next to you.
A process of high-precision integrated analysis combining cutting-edge AI visual inspection assistance with the world-standard verification engine "axe-core".
3. Automatic Report Generation for Smooth Sharing and Correction Requests
Evaluation results are automatically output in PDF format, clearly stating the problematic areas and specific improvement suggestions. This removes the "barrier of specialized terminology" unique to accessibility, significantly reducing communication costs for information sharing within teams and for requesting corrections from developers, leading to prompt and decisive improvement actions.
A sample of the automatically generated PDF evaluation report, detailing problem areas and specific improvement suggestions.
■AXY's Unique Evaluation Criteria: Diverse Design Evaluation Beyond Accessibility
AXY's evaluation foundation has extensibility beyond standard accessibility evaluations. By utilizing CULUMU's proprietary database cultivated through inclusive design practices, it can be applied to evaluations from emotional and cognitive perspectives, such as "easy-to-understand Japanese expressions," "correct use of specialized terminology," and "adherence to design guidelines."
Furthermore, it supports custom customization according to the needs of adopting companies, such as adding industry-specific check items and company-unique evaluation metrics.
In addition to standard accessibility evaluations, emotional and cognitive evaluation items such as "easy-to-understand Japanese check" using a proprietary database.
■AXY Introduction Comprehensively Supports Corporate Accessibility Improvement
It reduces the workload for personnel involved in accessibility initiatives and resolves issues faced by the field, such as "lack of time" and "lack of confidence in judgment."
Use Cases
Accessibility Promotion Staff
- As a tool to establish a company-wide common accessibility verification process
Internal WEB Master
- Enables self-departmental execution of accessibility inspections for created websites
Development/Design Team
- Understands the background of issues and smoothly initiates specific accessibility corrections
Staff with Limited Knowledge
- Understands the reasons for user barriers and can request corrections that consider individual circumstances
AXY supports users in different roles within an organization, such as promotion staff, WEB masters, and production teams, in an end-to-end manner.
Furthermore, CULUMU provides comprehensive support for improving the overall accessibility of a company, starting from supporting the formulation of accessibility policies to designing operational processes within the organization and providing technical knowledge and insights.
CULUMU Accessibility aims for long-term accessibility improvement through collaboration between corporate web/app personnel, production companies, accessibility specialists, and individuals facing social issues.
CULUMU Accessibility
■Voices from Early Adopters: Case Studies from Production Companies and Website Production Teams
We exhibited at "Design Ship 2025," one of Japan's largest design conferences, and received a great deal of positive feedback from designers and product managers active on the front lines.
Designer at a Business Company
"The feature to export evaluation results directly in PDF format is excellent! It significantly reduces the effort required to create internal reports and feedback materials for the development team, which is very helpful."
Product Manager at an IT Company
"I definitely want to introduce this at our company! Currently, accessibility evaluations are manually performed by members with specialized knowledge, which is a heavy burden. If this tool can take over human judgment, I expect our operational efficiency to improve dramatically."
Director at a Production Company
"It's wonderful that the evaluation results come out in an easy-to-understand report format. Until now, we haven't been able to undertake accessibility evaluation work itself due to a lack of resources, but this makes me feel it's possible to handle client work with this."
AXY exhibition scene at Design Ship 2025
Scenes of interaction with visitors at Design Ship 2025
■Inquiries Regarding This Matter and Tool Usage
1. Regarding AXY Implementation and Usage
Please consult us via "Request for Materials / Inquiries" on the AXY dedicated page.
https://axy.culumu.com/
2. Inquiries Regarding Accessibility and Inclusive Design
For consultations on specific site improvements based on AXY's evaluation results, the introduction of inclusive design co-created with diverse users, building internal systems, and other comprehensive initiatives, please contact us via the following:
https://culumu.com/contact
About Inclusive Design Studio CULUMU
CULUMU's support includes "Support for creating new businesses incorporating co-creation processes," "Research support for discovering sharp insights," "Prototyping support to give shape to ideas," "Support for space and architectural design that is friendly to everyone," and "Branding and accessibility support to maximize value."
Inclusive Design Studio CULUMU is a group of experts that co-creates with diverse stakeholders, including the elderly, people with disabilities, and foreigners, to support business development. Its greatest feature is its unique research panel, which leverages a network of over 5,000 non-profit organizations. This enables matching and qualitative research with people who were previously difficult to reach. Its mechanism, highly praised for "supporting development in close proximity to stakeholders," received the 2024 Good Design Award. With over 100 transaction records from major corporations to startups, CULUMU has undertaken numerous projects promoting social problem-solving and DE&I in collaboration with partners such as NPOs and research institutions.
STYZ Inc. Overview
STYZ Inc. aims to implement new values in society by discovering issues from the perspective of stakeholders and connecting people, markets, systems, and technology.
Donation Platform Business (Syncable): Promotes new financial inflows to the non-profit sector.
Inclusive Design Business (CULUMU): Simultaneously solves corporate and social issues.
Technology Business (STYZ Tech): Creates human-centered experiences through next-generation technology.
Company Name: STYZ Inc.
Representative: Tatsuya Tanaka, President and Representative Director
Capital: 5,725,000 yen
Sales: Confidential
Established: March 2016
Number of Employees: 60 (including contractors)
HP:
Corporate Site (https://styz.io/)
Donation Platform Business (https://syncable.biz/)
Inclusive Design Business (https://culumu.com/)
Technology Business (https://styz.io/tech)
Address: 102 Quest Court Harajuku, 3-59-4 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0051