The problem, and what closes it
Your scanner says the site is fine. It is checking about a third of the rules.
Automated tools detect roughly 35% of WCAG success criteria. The rest needs a person operating the page by hand — which is where the barriers that actually block people live.
If you leave it
$5k – $25k
The typical opening demand in a US web accessibility claim. Defending a filed suit runs $50,000 to $200,000.
Plaintiffs' firms scan sites in bulk and pick the easy ones. 3,117 federal web accessibility lawsuits were filed in 2025, up 27% on the year before, and about 70% of them hit ecommerce and retail.
What closes it
$1,500
One audit. Every barrier found, ranked by severity, with what it takes to fix each one — and a dated record of the whole thing.
That record is the first item your attorney asks for if a letter ever arrives. It is also the thing a plaintiff's firm cannot easily argue you ignored.
The arithmetic
Same scale on every bar.
Nothing here is a projection. These are the reported ranges for US web accessibility claims, drawn to one scale so the proportion does the talking.
If your customers include Californians, add the Unruh Act: any ADA violation is automatically an Unruh violation, carrying a $4,000 statutory minimum per violation with no requirement to prove harm.
Exactly what you get
Four things land in your inbox.
Not a dashboard login, not a PDF of coloured gauges. Documents a developer can act on and a lawyer can read.
01
A findings report
Every barrier found, ranked critical through minor, each with the WCAG criterion it fails and the page it is on.
02
A remediation list
What to change, in plain terms your developers can work from. No jargon wall, no "consult a specialist".
03
The keyboard walk
What I found operating the site by hand, which is the part no tool produces. Usually the most serious thing in the report.
04
A dated record
Testing date, method, browsers, standard applied. The evidence your attorney wants if a demand letter ever turns up.
What that actually looks like
A real finding, from a real site.
This page was reported clean by an automated scan. Then I went through it with a keyboard.
What happens next
Nothing happens that you have not agreed to.
Straight answers
I cannot promise you will never get a demand letter. Nobody honest can.
- An audit reports conformance against WCAG 2.2 AA on a date. It is not a certification, and I am not a lawyer.
- Automated tools detect roughly a third of the criteria. A human pass extends that without closing it. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something — the FTC fined one such vendor $1M in 2025.
- PDFs, video captions, mobile apps and anything behind a login are not included unless we agree them separately. I will not let you assume they are.
- Fixed price agreed before I start. Every change documented with a rollback step. On performance work, if the numbers do not move you do not pay for the fix.
Send me a URL.
I will measure it and send you what I find, usually within two working days. No charge, and no follow-up unless you ask for one.