Accessia Raises Pre-Seed Funding to Improve Digital Accessibility for Businesses

Accessia, an early-stage startup focused on digital accessibility, has raised pre-seed funding to develop its platform for helping businesses identify and remediate barriers that prevent disabled users from fully engaging with their digital products and services. The company is building tooling aimed at making accessibility compliance and improvement more actionable for product teams across a range of industries.

The founding team created Accessia in response to the persistent gap between legal requirements for digital accessibility and the practical reality of how most businesses approach the issue. While regulations such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the UK Equality Act set standards for accessible design, many organisations still lack the internal expertise or tooling to identify where their products fall short and to prioritise fixes effectively. Accessia's platform is designed to close that gap.

Digital accessibility is a significant and growing market. An estimated one in five people in the UK lives with a disability, and inaccessible digital products exclude a substantial portion of the population from online services, employment tools, government platforms, and commercial experiences. The "purple pound" — the spending power of disabled consumers in the UK — is estimated at over £274 billion annually, representing a strong commercial case for accessibility investment alongside the moral and legal imperatives.

The pre-seed funding will be used to develop Accessia's core product, build out initial customer relationships, and establish the team needed to begin scaling its accessibility testing and remediation platform.

Sources

• Crunchbase — Accessia company profile