How Royce’ Chocolate tripled its accessibility score, at the source

3X

accessibility score in 8 weeks

69%

fewer unique issues

1,000

pages monitored

Key takeaways

For manufacturing companies with complex digital footprints, accessibility is a legal obligation, a procurement requirement, and a competitive advantage — all at once

Source code accessibility

ROYCE’ Chocolate chose to fix accessibility in its own source code, with its development team owning the work

Accessibility score

With accessFlow, the team nearly tripled its accessibility score and cut unique issues by 69%, in under three months

Developer friendly

accessFlow didn’t just flag problems, it gave developers the exact code to fix each one, so a non-specialist team could move fast.

End to end platform

Continuous monitoring and downloadable reports let ROYCE’ own an ongoing, documented effort.

“Your customer service has been so excellent and I can’t thank you guys enough. I feel like you guys are really trying to help us.”

Ken Romaniszyn
Ken Romaniszyn
Managing Director, ROYCE' Confect USA, Inc

accessiBe products used

accessFlow

Developer-first accessibility operations platform for source-code remediation, automated auditing, continuous monitoring, and downloadable reports

Litigation support

Engaged during the previous legal matter, they used our litigation support to address accessibility-related claims. Even with ongoing efforts, businesses may still face legal claims.

Meet the client

ROYCE’ Chocolate is the US arm of ROYCE’, the premium Japanese confectioner known for its Nama Chocolate and a global reputation for quality. ROYCE’ Confect USA runs the brand’s American eCommerce and retail presence from Long Island City, New York, serving customers nationwide who expect the same care online that ROYCE’ is known for in its stores.

The challenge

ROYCE’ Chocolate takes accessibility seriously. Like many US eCommerce brands, it has navigated accessibility-related legal pressure, which made getting accessibility right a clear priority. ROYCE’ wanted to go beyond surface-level fixes and address accessibility in its own source code, with documentation to show ongoing, documented effort.

The challenge: its development team is outsourced and, like most teams, not made up of accessibility specialists. A mandate to “make it accessible” wasn’t enough. They needed to know exactly what to fix, and how.

“Got sued once… lesson learned, and I’ve been very diligent about that ever since. You’ve given us the roadmap… they just have to literally kind of key in the code.”

Ken Romaniszyn
Ken Romaniszyn
Managing Director, ROYCE' Confect USA, Inc

The problem to solve

Fix at the source, not the surface

Clear direction for the dev team

Monthly accessibility checks

Work towards a clear target

“There was no question on what needs to be fixed and how it needs to be fixed… basically holding our hand through the process.”

Ken Romaniszyn
Ken Romaniszyn
Managing Director, ROYCE' Confect USA, Inc

The solution

ROYCE’ adopted accessFlow, accessiBe’s accessibility operations hub, to manage accessibility directly in its source code in one place, instead of treating it as a one-time fix. With accessFlow, the ROYCE’ team could:

Remediate at the source with guided, code-level remediation

Prioritize what matters with automated audits

Stay in control from the dashboard

Document the work with the accessFlow audit report

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