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Real federal form

Applying for Social Security Retirement

Form SSA-1 • Retirement insurance benefits

The Social Security Administration publishes Form SSA-1 for retirement insurance benefits, along with an online application.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

AccessForce is an independent prototype. It is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, this agency, and it never changes eligibility requirements or makes eligibility decisions.

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Before

The experience people use today

  • One question shapes everything:
  • which month should benefits begin?

The form asks for the answer. It doesn't help someone reach it.

Timing, continued work and spousal benefits interact with each other, and the consequences last for the rest of someone's life.

Which questions apply to you?

The same application asks for different question ranges depending on which programs someone is requesting.

  • Claiming at full retirement ageIdentity + work + month of election+ payment details
  • Claiming early while still workingIdentity + work and earnings questions+ earnings-test questions
  • Married or previously marriedIdentity + marriage and family questions+ spousal benefit questions
  • Also entitled to another benefitIdentity + other-benefit questions+ agency follow-up

AI-identified cognitive and process complexity — not a legal accessibility violation.

AXS — Accessibility Experience Score

Putting a number on the experience people face today

AXS — AccessForce Accessibility Experience Score

43 / 100

Significant OpportunitiesIllustrative score until audit completed

Illustrative score until audit completed

Form SSA-1, retirement insurance benefits

AXS weighs technical accessibility at 40%, cognitive and content accessibility at 30%, and process accessibility at 30% — so an interface that is technically operable can still score low when the process itself is hard to get through.

How AXS works

AI accessibility audit

Ask AI to examine the experience

AccessForce reads the published application the way different people would have to, and reports what may stand in their way. These are AI-identified opportunities reviewed by a person — not legal findings.

AI redesign

Let Agentforce rebuild the interaction

The eligibility rules and the systems behind them stay exactly as they are. Only the interaction changes.

After

The same service, as a conversation

Applying for Social Security Retirement — assistant

Hi. I can help you work through your retirement benefits application. Before we start, how can I make this easier for you?

How can I make this experience easier for you?

You can change these preferences at any time.

AccessForce explains the process and helps organise an application. It never calculates your benefit or decides your entitlement — Social Security does.

Before vs. after

Same public service, different experience

Before

Form-driven

  • 📄 Decision assumed already made
  • 🏛 Benefits terminology
  • 🔀 Self-directed sections
  • 🧠 Lifelong consequences, no explanation
  • ✍️ Long paper application

After

Retirement for All — conversation-driven

  • 💬 Describe your plan in your words
  • 🧠 Plain-language explanation of trade-offs
  • 🤖 AI-guided sections
  • 🔊 Read aloud and adjustable text
  • 💾 Pause and resume
  • ♿ Adaptive accessibility
  • 🙋 Human help

Same rules. Same benefit formula.

A decision someone can actually understand.

Measured

Before and after isn't just visible. It's measurable.

Before

43

AXS / 100

Significant Opportunities

Form SSA-1, retirement insurance benefits

AccessForce redesign

After

94

AXS / 100

Highly Accessible Experience

Adaptive Agentforce conversation over the same requirements

+0

Accessibility Experience Points

43 → 94. Illustrative score until audit completed.

Dimension by dimension

Select “Why?” on any dimension to see the finding, the recommendation and the redesign decisions the improvement is credited to.

AXS dimension scores before and after the AccessForce redesign, out of 100
DimensionBeforeAfterChangeEvidence
Visual & Perceivable74 out of 100 before95 out of 100 after+21
Screen Reader & Semantic66 out of 100 before96 out of 100 after+30
Motor & Keyboard60 out of 100 before96 out of 100 after+36
Cognitive Accessibility28 out of 100 before92 out of 100 after+64
Plain Language30 out of 100 before94 out of 100 after+64
Process Accessibility26 out of 100 before91 out of 100 after+65
Adaptive & Personalized28 out of 100 before94 out of 100 after+66

Illustrative score until audit completed. Each change is credited to a specific redesign decision — a score never moves simply because a conversation exists.

Why did the score change?

  • Process Accessibility

    26 → 91+65

    Why?

    • Irrelevant questions removed from view
    • Branching handled dynamically
    • Save and resume added
    • Help available throughout
    • One task presented at a time
    • Human escalation available

  • Cognitive Accessibility

    28 → 92+64

    Why?

    • Reduced information density
    • One question at a time
    • Plain-language explanations
    • “I don't know” supported
    • Approximate answers supported where appropriate
    • Follow-up items saved rather than blocking progress

Scale

One accessibility engine. Thousands of experiences.

The same audit-and-redesign engine can point at any required experience. The systems of record behind them are never replaced.

  • Government
  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Sports
  • Travel
  • Emergency Response
  • Financial Services

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