Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in collaboration with Kamiwaza and SHI, this week unveiled a platform that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to enable Federal agencies to comply with a Section 508 amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that requires websites and applications to be accessible to people with disabilities.
Based on an HPE Private Cloud AI platform that incorporates graphical processor units (GPUs), this offering makes use of an AI agent developed by Kamiwaza that scans, remediates and certifies every web page, application, or kiosk screen against a set of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA standards under Section 508 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Title II regulations.
At the core of the HPE Private Cloud AI platform is an HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12 server configured with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs that is deployed by SHI, a long-time provider of IT services to Federal agencies.
The Section 508 amendment requires Federal agencies to provide text alternatives for images and non-text elements, enabling full keyboard navigation for those who cannot use a mouse, ensuring sufficient color contrast for readability, and including captions and audio descriptions for video and audio content. Beginning in April 2026, state and local governments serving more than 50,000 residents will have to comply with WCAG 2.1 Level AA and ADA Title II regulations as well.
Complying with all 82 points of those regulations, however, previously required years of costly manual effort that can now be completed in weeks using AI agents, says Robin Braun, vice president of AI business development for hybrid cloud at HPE. The AI agents developed by Kamiwaza not only identify compliance issues, they will also automatically remediate them, notes Braun.
In fact, it’s now only a matter of time before AI agents are used more widely to reduce the total cost of complying with various compliance requirements, she adds. “It’s an invaluable opportunity,” says Braun.
It’s not clear to what degree AI agents can be used to automate compliance with other regulations, but the economic and political implications are profound. Business executives routinely complain about the cost of complying with government mandates, which then becomes an issue that politicians will hotly debate. If the cost of complying with various mandates is dramatically reduced, many of those debates are likely to be rendered moot.
Of course, it may take a while to train the army of AI agents that will be needed to achieve that goal, but it may now be more a question of when, rather than if, organizations of all sizes will eventually benefit. In fact, many of those organizations would be well advised to start identifying compliance tasks today that might be better performed by an AI agent tomorrow.
In the meantime, any organization that wants to make its websites and applications more accessible to individuals with disabilities at a lower total cost can now also leverage the same AI agents developed by Kamiwaza to create a digital experience that can now be much more widely appreciated.
