
AWS for Software Companies Podcast Ep165: Siteimprove + Bedrock Agents - Powering Accessibility at Scale
Oct 30, 2025
33:02
Discover how Siteimprove partnered with AWS to build an AI system processing 100 million accessibility checks monthly, making the web usable for 1.3 billion people with disabilities worldwide.
Topics Include:
- AWS and Siteimprove partnered to solve digital accessibility at massive scale using AI.
- Digital accessibility ensures 1.3 billion people with disabilities can use web content effectively.
- Deep semantic understanding is needed to verify if content truly matches its descriptions.
- Siteimprove processes 75 million webpages across government, healthcare, and education sectors daily.
- The challenge required AWS infrastructure beyond just AI models for cost-effective scaling.
- Their platform unifies accessibility checks with SEO, analytics, and content performance tools.
- Business requirements included enterprise security, multi-region support, and flexible pricing models.
- They built three processing patterns: interactive conversations, overnight batch, and high-priority async.
- The AI Accelerator framework separates business logic from model adapters for easy expansion.
- Intelligent routing sends simple checks to Nova micro, complex ones to Nova Pro.
- Production system now processes over 100 million accessibility checks monthly using Bedrock Batch.
- Key lessons: cross-region inference reduces latency, prompt optimization crucial, special characters increase hallucination.
Participants:
- Hamed Shahir - Director of AI, Siteimprove
- David Kaleko - Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services
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