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Regardless of their ability, everyone should have equal access to information, services, applications, and everything else on the web.\nWe work with enterprise-level businesses and organisations to ensure their sites and mobile apps are accessible. Installed in over 250,000 browsers and with over 4,000 audit projects completed, Deque is the industry standard. 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