We Audited Provia's AI Shopping Chat. Here's What the Before Looks Like.

We pointed axe-core at an AI shopping chat called Provia last week. Five product cards rendered after we typed "show me hoodies." Axe flagged three violations - one serious, two moderate - across six DOM nodes. The real story is what axe couldn't see. This is part 1 of two. Part 2 will publish after Provia's founder ships the fixes he's already working on, and it will show the diff against the exact same scan. Everything below was sent to him as a private report first. He read it, decided to let us name him, and told us to put the test URL in the article too. That's how this got here.