Accessibility Audits & Remediation

Accessibility is the difference between a site that technically exists for everyone and one that actually works for everyone. It affects people using screen readers, people who can't use a mouse, people with low vision or color blindness, people with motor or cognitive differences, and—more often than anyone expects—people on a bad connection, a small screen, or a phone in bright sunlight.

It's also increasingly a legal question. If you're a public entity, a federal contractor, an educational institution, or a business serving the public, you may have obligations under the ADA, Section 508, or the European Accessibility Act. We're not lawyers and we won't pretend to be, but we can tell you where your site stands against the standard those obligations point to.

Audit first, then fix

We audit your site against WCAG standards, then help you remediate what we find. The audit is the deliverable people usually ask for; the remediation is where it stops being a document and starts being a better site.

What an audit covers

• Standards compliance review — testing against the WCAG success criteria at the conformance level that fits your situation, usually AA
• Assistive technology testing — actually driving your site with screen readers, because automated tools catch roughly a third of real issues and cheerfully pass pages that are unusable
• Keyboard navigation — every interactive element reachable and operable without a mouse, with visible focus and no keyboard traps
• Color contrast and visual design — text contrast, and whether anything conveys meaning by color alone
• Forms and error handling — labels, help text, and error messages that are announced rather than just displayed in red
• Structure and semantics — real headings, real lists, real landmarks, and ARIA used only where native HTML can't do the job
• Motion and timing — respecting reduced-motion preferences, and never trapping someone behind a timeout
• Media — captions, transcripts, and alternative text that carries the information rather than describing the file

What you get

A report that documents every issue we found, what it means for a real person trying to use your site, which WCAG criterion it maps to, and how serious it is. Issues are ordered by impact, not by how easy they are to fix, so you can make an informed call about sequencing.

You don't need to understand the technical details. We'll explain what we find in plain language and recommend fixes based on what will make the biggest difference.

Remediation

Most clients want the problems solved, not catalogued. We'll work through the list with you—starting with the barriers that block people outright, then the ones that make things harder than they need to be—retesting as we go so a fix that didn't land doesn't quietly get marked done.

Where an issue traces back to a third-party component, an embedded widget, or a vendor platform you don't control, we'll say so plainly and help you work out the options: pressure the vendor, replace the component, or build an accessible path around it.

A word about overlays

You may have been pitched an accessibility overlay—a script you drop in that promises instant compliance. We don't recommend them. They don't fix the underlying markup, screen reader users broadly report that they make things worse, and they have not reliably prevented litigation. We'd rather fix your site than put a widget in front of it.

Who this is for

Accessibility work makes sense if you:

• Have legal, contractual, or organizational requirements to meet a standard
• Have received a complaint, a demand letter, or a procurement questionnaire you can't answer
• Serve a public audience and want the site to actually work for all of it
• Are planning a redesign and want to build it right rather than retrofit it later
• Want to know where you stand before someone else tells you

How we approach it

Audit first. Understand the current state before changing anything. A thorough audit is the roadmap.

Prioritize by human impact. A missing skip link and an unlabeled checkout button are not the same problem. We focus on what's actually keeping people out.

Fix systematically. Methodical, in a logical order, tested as we go.

Build the habit, not just the fix. Where it's useful, we'll show your team what caused the recurring issues, so the next round of content or features doesn't reintroduce them.

Standalone or combined

You can engage us purely for an audit, for audit-plus-remediation, or as part of a larger build. We hold our own work to this standard too—the site you're reading was built to it deliberately.