Meet Vigil
Your AI Compliance Agent
18-check compliance battery running monthly on every IFS maintenance-plan client. WCAG 2.2 AA coverage, security header validation, Lighthouse accessibility scoring, real-content audits. Because compliance isn't a one-time pass. It's something your site has to stay.
Meet Vigil
Ninety seconds with your AI compliance agent. What she watches, how she reports, why it matters.
Vigil watches compliance.
Vigil is the second of our two in-house AI agents watching your site between engagements. Where Catori watches search, Vigil watches compliance.
Every month, Vigil runs an 18-check audit battery across every page:
WCAG 2.2 AA compliance
Color contrast, focus management, keyboard navigation, ARIA labels, semantic structure, heading hierarchy, alt text completeness.
pa11y automated accessibility scan
Industry-standard automated accessibility testing across every URL.
axe-core validation
Deque's axe-core engine, the same testing used by major enterprise compliance teams.
Lighthouse accessibility scoring
Per-page accessibility scores tracked month-over-month.
Security header audit
HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
Cookie consent and Consent Mode v2 validation
Is your consent infrastructure working correctly and sending the right signals to analytics?
Form accessibility
Labels, error messaging, required-field handling.
Skip-nav and focus-ring validation
Keyboard users can actually use your site.
Reduced-motion respect
Animations honor prefers-reduced-motion.
Color-contrast on interactive elements
Buttons, links, focus states all meet AA contrast ratios.
Semantic HTML validation
Headings used for structure, not style; landmarks properly assigned; lists for lists.
Image alt text completeness
Every content image has meaningful alt text; decorative images properly marked.
Language attributes
lang attribute set correctly for primary and inline-different-language content.
PDF and document accessibility
If you're publishing PDFs, are they accessible?
Video captioning
Any embedded video that needs captions has them.
Form input purpose annotations
Autocomplete attributes set correctly.
Error identification and suggestion
Forms tell users what went wrong and how to fix it.
Five compliance-companion pages present and current
Privacy, cookie, accessibility, ADA, and compliance report pages that every compliant site needs.
Delivered to Your Client Portal
Every maintenance-plan client gets Vigil's monthly compliance report delivered automatically to client.idfs.ai. The report includes:
- ✓Compliance status summary (Green / Yellow / Red per page)
- ✓Full per-page findings with severity rankings
- ✓Diff from last month's report
- ✓Direct actions Vigil has already queued for MOG to execute during your maintenance cycle
- ✓Citations to specific WCAG success criteria for every flagged issue
Reports your legal counsel can actually use.
If you ever face an accessibility lawsuit or demand letter, Vigil's monthly reports are the paper trail proving your good-faith compliance posture.
How Vigil Plugs Into the Rest of the IFS Stack
MOG
Receives Vigil's flagged issues and executes the fixes during your maintenance cycle.
Catori
Coordinates with Vigil on SEO-adjacent compliance issues (alt text, heading structure).
DraftDash
Content publications run through Vigil before they go live, so new blog posts don't introduce fresh compliance issues.
Our build process
Runs Vigil at every phase: initial design, pre-launch, and post-launch. Your site passes compliance on day one.
Included With Most Maintenance Plans
Vigil is automatically included for all clients on:
- ✓ADA/WCAG Certified edition builds (of course, this is the agent that makes the certification possible)
- ✓Professional plus tier maintenance plans on any platform
- ✓Forged Sites clients on any maintenance tier (Forged's clean rendering makes compliance easier, so we include Vigil across the board)
Vigil monthly reporting is available a-la-carte for clients on lower maintenance tiers or no maintenance plan. Contact us for rates.
We Use Vigil on Ourselves First
Both of our own company websites, ifs.idfs.ai (this site) and idfs.ai, run through Vigil every month. When we tell you your site will be compliant, we're telling you that because we know what it takes to keep OUR sites compliant and we've built the agent to do it.
About Compliance
Vigil catches what automated tools can catch. No AI (and no human) can catch 100% of accessibility issues. Genuine accessibility requires user-testing with people who use assistive technology. For maximum compliance posture, we pair Vigil's automated battery with periodic human-led accessibility review on ADA/WCAG Certified Edition engagements. Vigil alone gets you to roughly the 95% mark on automatically-detectable issues, which is what drives lawsuits. Real user-testing closes the last 5% and is available as an add-on service.