Most Inaccessible Sites Look Perfectly Fine
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.
Accessibility Has Moved From Optional to Expected
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.
Why We Do Not Sell an Accessibility Overlay
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.
The Audit Covers WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA
- 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
Automated Where It Is Reliable, Manual Where It Is Not
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.
From Audit to a Site People Can Actually Use
Scope
Agree the templates and user journeys to test, the target level, and which platforms and assistive technologies matter for your audience.
Automated pass
Run the machine-detectable checks across every page in scope to establish a baseline and find the repeating template-level issues.
Manual testing
Keyboard-only operation, screen-reader walkthroughs, zoom and reflow, and the real journeys end to end.
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.
Report
Each issue with the WCAG criterion, where it occurs, who it affects, and a concrete code-level recommendation — not just a rule number.
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.
Re-test
Confirm each finding is genuinely resolved and nothing regressed, then issue the updated report.
Keep it
Accessibility checks in the build process and a short guide for your team, so the next release does not undo the work.
What an Accessibility Audit Delivers
- 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
Standalone, or Built Into Work You Are Already Planning
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.
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