We built an accessibility tool because spreadsheet audits were killing us

There's a specific kind of despair that comes from opening the ninth spreadsheet in a WCAG audit, the one you're pretty sure somebody duplicated from the wrong version two weeks ago, and finding that step 14 of the login journey is marked "Fail" in your copy and "Not Tested" in the reviewer's copy. Which one is right? Nobody knows. The tester who originally logged it is on PTO. The screenshot is somewhere in Slack, probably in a thread that got buried under a deployment argument. That was us, about two years ago, during a healthcare accessibility audit in the US. The client was strict, the regulations were strict, everything was strict except our tooling, which was held together with Google Sheets, manual dates, and hope. We had nine spreadsheets open. One tracked testers. One tracked severity. One tracked notes. One was apparently a backup of another one, but with different data. Screenshots lived in Slack channels, sometimes in DMs, sometimes attached to Jira tickets that referenced