Eveliko expands accessibility practice: Denislav Iliev earns DHS Trusted Tester certification

Accessibility looks different depending on what your site needs to achieve.

For lighter sites - informational platforms, smaller properties, teams that want a baseline confidence check - automated scanning covers a lot of ground quickly. It flags the obvious issues: missing alt text, contrast failures, unlabelled form fields. Fast to run, easy to act on, and a reasonable starting point for most.

But for platforms where accessibility needs to hold up to scrutiny - enterprise procurement, EAA compliance documentation, or simply sites where a real person with a disability needs to be able to complete a task - automated scanning isn't enough. Tools catch roughly 30-40% of issues. The rest only surfaces through structured manual evaluation.

That's the gap Denislav Iliev is now certified to close.

Denislav has earned the DHS Trusted Tester for Web on Windows certification (TT-2608-09509), issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The program is a substantial commitment - roughly 80 hours of structured learning covering every WCAG criterion in depth, how each one is tested, which disabilities are impacted when it fails, and hands-on evaluation practice across real pages. A two-stage exam process requires 85% on both to pass.

Why this matters for your digital platform

Automated accessibility tools catch roughly 30-40% of issues. The rest - keyboard traps, screen reader logic, focus order failures, ARIA misuse - only surface through structured manual evaluation. The DHS Trusted Tester process is built precisely for this: a standardised, repeatable methodology that walks through 20+ topic areas systematically, producing consistent and defensible results.

For clients, this means audits with documented conformance evidence - not just a list of flagged elements - where every finding maps to a specific WCAG criterion and a clear remediation path that developers can act on directly.

The European Accessibility Act is already in force

Since June 28, 2025, the EAA applies to any product or service sold to EU consumers - regardless of where the organisation is headquartered. Fines, procurement exclusions, and the first lawsuits are already a reality. The EAA's technical benchmark, EN 301 549, maps directly to WCAG 2.1 AA - the same standard the Trusted Tester methodology tests against.

For Sitefinity and Umbraco sites serving enterprise or government clients in the Gulf or Europe, accessibility is no longer a line item that gets cut in the final sprint.

If accessibility is on your radar - or should be - we'd like to talk about what that looks like for your platform.