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What breaks, and what frustrates

An independent audit of your live product — functional defects, cross-browser and device coverage, accessibility against WCAG 2.2, Core Web Vitals, and the usability friction that quietly costs you conversions.

Why a QA & UX audit

Your team cannot see your product any more — they know where to click. An outside pass finds the crash on a browser nobody tests, the form that fails silently, and the step where real users give up, in one sweep instead of three.

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Two audits in one pass

Bugs and friction surface in the same walkthrough, on the same devices, by the same reviewers. Splitting QA from UX means paying twice for one journey through your product.

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Genuinely independent eyes

We did not build it, so we do not know the happy path. That is the entire value: we take the routes your users take, including the ones your team stopped taking months ago.

03

Real browsers, real devices

Chrome, Safari and WebKit, Firefox, and Edge, on real phones, tablets, and desktops — not one emulator. Safari and WebKit in particular is where the defects nobody caught tend to live.

04

Accessibility measured, not asserted

WCAG 2.2 AA tested with screen readers and keyboard-only navigation, not just an automated scan. Automation catches roughly a third of real barriers; the rest need a person.

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The performance users actually feel

Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, and Cumulative Layout Shift measured on field-realistic conditions, with the specific cause of each regression named.

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Findings that become tickets

Every issue arrives with severity, environment, reproduction steps, and a screenshot or recording — so it goes straight into your tracker instead of into a debate about whether it is real.

What we deliver

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Functional QA Pass

A structured sweep of your core journeys — sign-up, checkout, onboarding, whatever earns you money — across a browser and device matrix agreed with you, with every defect reproduced and recorded.

02

Accessibility Audit (WCAG 2.2 AA)

Keyboard-only and screen-reader testing, contrast, focus order, form labelling, and semantic structure, checked against WCAG 2.2 AA and reported criterion by criterion.

03

Performance & Core Web Vitals

LCP, INP, and CLS measured per key template, each regression traced to the asset, script, or layout that causes it — with the fix, not just the score.

04

UX Review & Prioritised Fix List

Usability heuristics applied to the flows that matter, drop-off points named, and everything above merged into one severity-ranked list. Optional: a Playwright regression suite so the bugs we found cannot come back.

Process

  1. 01

    Scope

    We agree the critical journeys, the browser and device matrix, and what "done" means for your users — so the audit covers what your business depends on.

  2. 02

    Test

    Manual passes on real devices, screen-reader and keyboard runs, and measured performance, with each finding reproduced and captured as we go.

  3. 03

    Report

    One severity-ranked list, a walkthrough with your team, and — if you want it — the regression suite and the fixes implemented by us.

Faqs

Common questions about our QA & UX audits

Because one person walking your product finds both. A broken validation message and a confusing one are discovered on the same screen in the same minute — running two separate engagements means paying twice for the same journey.

Real devices for the primary matrix, emulators only to widen coverage at the edges. Safari on an actual iPhone behaves differently from any simulation of it, and that gap is exactly where the defects nobody caught tend to live.

No. Automated tooling catches a minority of real barriers, so the audit adds keyboard-only navigation and screen-reader passes. Findings are reported against specific WCAG 2.2 criteria, not as a generic score.

A severity-ranked list where each item carries environment, reproduction steps, expected versus actual behaviour, and a screenshot or recording — ready to paste into Jira, Linear, or GitHub Issues. We can file them directly if you give us access.

If you want us to. Many clients take the list to their own team; others hand us the remediation and the regression suite. The audit itself is the same either way.

Yes — native iOS and Android builds are tested the same way, on real hardware, including platform accessibility (VoiceOver and TalkBack) and store-readiness checks.

Let’s talk

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Portrait of Denys Havryliak, Founder & CEO of Applefy

Denys Havryliak

Founder & CEO

  • 10+ years in software engineering
  • Master’s in cybersecurity
  • Deep, current knowledge of AI tooling

You’ll talk to the person who builds. Denys works hands-on across product, architecture, and delivery — and keeps a close watch on what today’s AI tooling can genuinely do in production, not just in a demo.