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What people actually run into

Most Inaccessible Sites Look Perfectly Fine

Accessibility problems are rarely visible to the person who built the site. These are the ones we find on almost every audit.

You cannot get there with a keyboard

Menus that only open on hover, modals that trap focus, custom dropdowns built from divs. Anyone who cannot use a mouse simply stops at that point.

Text disappears against its background

Grey-on-white body copy and pale placeholder text are the single most common failure, and the easiest to fix once someone measures it.

Forms with placeholders instead of labels

A placeholder vanishes as soon as you type and is not reliably announced. To a screen-reader user the field has no name at all.

Images that say nothing, or too much

Missing alt text on the images that carry meaning, and decorative images that interrupt with a filename. Both are the same fix: decide what each image is for.

Errors shown only in red

If the only signal that a field failed is its colour, the people most likely to miss it are exactly the people the rule exists for.

Zoom is switched off

A viewport tag with user-scalable=no takes one line to add and locks out everyone who magnifies text. We still find it regularly.

Why now

Accessibility Has Moved From Optional to Expected

Four reasons businesses are commissioning this work in 2026 — in the order clients actually give them to us.

It is a large, ignored audience

Disability is not a niche, and accessibility needs are not permanent-only: a broken arm, bright sunlight and an aging eye all change how someone uses your site.

The standard has hardened

The US Department of Justice's WCAG 2.2 AA rule took effect for federal-adjacent entities in January 2026, and private-sector expectations have risen alongside it. This page is information, not legal advice — your obligations depend on where you operate and who you serve.

Procurement asks for it

Enterprise, education and public-sector buyers increasingly ask for an accessibility statement or conformance report before signing. Not having one loses deals quietly.

The fixes help everyone

Clear labels, real focus states, readable contrast and sane heading structure improve conversion and SEO for every visitor, not only the ones the rules name.

Read this before you buy anything

Why We Do Not Sell an Accessibility Overlay

You have almost certainly been pitched a one-line script that promises instant compliance. Here is why we do not offer one, and why we will say so before you spend money on it.

They do not fix the underlying code

An overlay sits on top of the page and guesses. The unlabelled input, the div-that-is-really-a-button and the missing focus state are all still there underneath.

Disabled users largely reject them

People who rely on assistive technology already have it configured the way they need. An overlay that overrides it usually makes the experience worse, not better.

They do not settle the question

A widget that claims compliance is a claim, not a conformance assessment. It does not replace testing, and it does not describe what was actually tested.

What we do instead

Find the real failures, rank them by who they lock out and how hard they are to fix, and change the code. Slower, permanent, and it survives your next redesign.

What we test

The Audit Covers WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA

Across a representative set of templates and journeys rather than one page — a home page tells you very little about a checkout.
  • Keyboard operation & visible focus
  • Screen-reader semantics & landmarks
  • Colour contrast & use of colour alone
  • Headings, structure & reading order
  • Images, icons & alternative text
  • Forms, labels, errors & instructions
  • Zoom, reflow & text spacing
  • Motion, animation & timing
  • Media captions & transcripts
  • Dynamic content & ARIA usage
  • Target size & pointer alternatives (2.2 additions)
  • Mobile & touch behaviour
How we test

Automated Where It Is Reliable, Manual Where It Is Not

This split matters more than any tool choice, and it is the thing most automated-only audits leave unsaid.

What automation catches

Missing alt attributes, unlabelled fields, contrast ratios, missing document language, duplicate ids, suppressed zoom, untitled frames. Fast, repeatable, and worth running on every build.

What only a person catches

Whether focus order makes sense, whether alt text is correct rather than merely present, whether a custom component behaves as the control it looks like, whether an error message actually helps.

Why the split matters

Automated tools detect a minority of real WCAG failures. A clean automated report is a reasonable starting point and nothing more — which is exactly how we present ours.

Start with a free baseline

Our free website analysis now scores accessibility as its own category alongside SEO, performance and AI visibility. It runs the automated half in seconds, for free, before you talk to anyone.

How it works

From Audit to a Site People Can Actually Use

1

Scope

Agree the templates and user journeys to test, the target level, and which platforms and assistive technologies matter for your audience.

Output: agreed test scope
2

Automated pass

Run the machine-detectable checks across every page in scope to establish a baseline and find the repeating template-level issues.

Output: baseline findings
3

Manual testing

Keyboard-only operation, screen-reader walkthroughs, zoom and reflow, and the real journeys end to end.

Output: verified failures
4

Prioritise

Rank every finding by who it blocks and how hard it is to fix, so the first week of work removes the most barriers.

Output: prioritised issue list
5

Report

Each issue with the WCAG criterion, where it occurs, who it affects, and a concrete code-level recommendation — not just a rule number.

Output: audit report
6

Remediate

We fix it, or we support your team while they do. Either way the changes go into the codebase rather than on top of it.

Output: fixes shipped
7

Re-test

Confirm each finding is genuinely resolved and nothing regressed, then issue the updated report.

Output: verified re-test
8

Keep it

Accessibility checks in the build process and a short guide for your team, so the next release does not undo the work.

Output: guardrails & guidance
What you get

What an Accessibility Audit Delivers

Depending on scope:
  • Agreed scope & tested-pages list
  • Findings mapped to WCAG 2.2 criteria
  • Severity & effort against every issue
  • Code-level remediation guidance
  • Screenshots & reproduction steps
  • A prioritised fix plan
  • Draft accessibility statement
  • Re-test & updated report
  • Team walkthrough of the findings
Where this fits

Standalone, or Built Into Work You Are Already Planning

Accessibility is far cheaper designed in than retrofitted, so the best time to buy this is usually alongside something else.

As a standalone audit

You have a live site and need to know where you stand, whether for a procurement question, a complaint, or because it is the right thing to do.

With a redesign

Fixing accessibility during a website redesign costs a fraction of retrofitting it afterwards, because the decisions are still open.

With design work

Contrast, focus states, target sizes and error patterns are design decisions. Our UI/UX design team makes them accessibly by default when accessibility is in scope from the start.

With a new build

On a new website or app, accessibility acceptance criteria go into the definition of done. That is far cheaper than an audit six months after launch.

As part of a wider review

Often commissioned alongside an IT audit, where accessibility, security and performance are reviewed together.

As an ongoing check

Sites regress. A periodic re-test under maintenance and support catches it before a user does.

What Our
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How engagements work

Three Ways to Start

Baseline Scan — the automated half across your key templates, with a short summary of what it found and what it could not see. Full Audit — automated plus manual testing on an agreed set of templates and journeys, with a prioritised, WCAG-mapped report and a draft accessibility statement. Audit & Remediation — the full audit plus the fixes and a re-test, either done by us or alongside your team. Scope drives the price, so it is quoted after we have seen the site rather than from a list. Indicative bands are on our pricing page. You can also run the automated baseline yourself, free, from our website analysis tool before contacting us at all.

FAQs

Have a question? We have the answer. If you don't see your question here, feel free to reach out to us.

Will an audit make my website legally compliant?

An audit tells you what currently fails and how to fix it. Conformance is the result of fixing those findings and keeping them fixed — and because your site keeps changing, it is a state you maintain rather than a certificate you obtain. Anyone promising guaranteed compliance from a scan or a script is overselling. We are also not lawyers: what your specific obligations are depends on where you operate, your sector and who your users are.

Is an accessibility overlay or widget good enough?

No, and we would rather say so before you buy one. An overlay sits on top of the page and cannot repair the underlying markup — the unlabelled field and the div pretending to be a button are still there. Many people who use assistive technology actively dislike overlays, because they override settings that were already configured to suit them. The durable fix is in the code.

What is WCAG 2.2 AA, and is that the right target?

WCAG is the international standard for web accessibility. Level AA is the level regulations and procurement almost always reference, and 2.2 is the current version — it added criteria around focus visibility, target size and reducing cognitive load. AA is the right default for most businesses. AAA is not intended to be met in full across a whole site, which is worth knowing before someone sells it to you.

How long does an audit take?

It scales with the number of distinct templates and journeys, not the number of pages — a thousand product pages built from one template is a smaller job than a ten-page site where every page is bespoke. Manual testing is the part that takes real time, and it is also the part that finds most of the issues that matter.

Do I need to rebuild my website?

Usually not. Most findings are contained fixes: labels, contrast, focus states, heading structure, alt text, error messaging. A rebuild only comes up when core interactive components are built in a way that cannot be made accessible without replacing them — and if that is the case, we will show you which components and why rather than recommending a rebuild on principle.

Can you fix the issues as well as find them?

Yes. We can deliver the audit alone, do the remediation ourselves, or work alongside your developers — whichever suits how your team is set up. Where your team does the work, the report is written to be actionable by a developer who was not in the room for the testing.

Does accessibility help SEO?

They overlap genuinely, though they are not the same thing. Proper heading structure, descriptive link text, alt text, document language and clean semantic markup all serve both. That said, accessibility is worth doing because people cannot use your site otherwise — the SEO benefit is a side effect, not the argument.

What does your free scan actually check?

The automated half: form fields without labels, links with no meaningful text, heading structure, missing landmark regions, suppressed pinch-zoom, untitled frames, image alt text and document language. It reads the page's HTML, so it cannot judge focus order, whether alt text is accurate, or how a custom component behaves in a screen reader. It is a useful starting point and we describe it as exactly that on the report itself.

Find Out Where You Stand

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Tell us your website address, roughly how many distinct page templates it has, whether you have a deadline or a procurement requirement, and whether you want the fixes done as well as found.