Our comprehensive, fully manual website accessibility audit covers 50% of what’s needed to reach conformance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA (or 2.0 AA or 2.2 AA). The other half is remediation, which we can now also provide.
After we complete the audit, we will provide you with a detailed accounting of all accessibility issues in plain, easy-to-understand language. As you implement our recommendations, you’ll improve your website’s accessibility and significantly reduce legal risk.
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Our web accessibility audit process includes:
- Identifying primary page layouts: We can recommend an audit scope or work with you to determine your website’s essential pages, page layouts, and templates, ensuring maximum coverage without unnecessary expense.
- Evaluating against WCAG 2.1 AA (or another WCAG version): Our experts diligently assess your website against all 50 AA success criteria in the 2.1 version of WCAG. As a part of our assessment, we will test your website using keyboard and screen readers. We will also visually inspect each page/screen and, where needed, the code.
- Automated scan review: We also leverage the AXE automated scan tool as a final review to complement our manual WCAG audit process, reducing the possibility of human error and ensuring that all issues that can be correctly flagged by automation – and are actual issues – are contained in your report. We only use the AXE scan as a review, and never copy and paste scan results.
- Chronological issue listing: We provide a clear and organized list of accessibility issues for each page template or layout, presented in chronological order for easy reference.
- Remediation instructions and examples: Our team offers precise recommendations with code examples to address the identified issues, helping your developers, designers, or content editors to make your website accessible.
- Clear and concise WCAG audit report in Excel spreadsheet: Our web accessibility audit report is designed to be actionable, easy to understand, and free from unnecessary technical jargon. We organize all issues and a clear and straightforward Excel spreadsheet.
Investing in our Website Accessibility Audit service is a solid decision for your organization. Prices for a WCAG audit typically range from $2,500 to $7,500, depending on factors such as the current state of accessibility, the number of pages/screens audited, and the complexity of your website.
With a typical turnaround time of 1-2 weeks, our thorough audit can help you quickly and effectively ensure WCAG conformance and ADA website compliance.
Validation / Re-Audit
After you receive your audit report, your team will begin fixing the issues identified. Most clients purchase technical support hours from us so we can help them with the validation of the fixes. (You can read more about hiring us on our website accessibility audit service page.)
Think of issue validation as a kind of re-audit ensures that all accessibility issues have been effectively resolved and verifies that your website is conformant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA. This service means you’ll have certainty that the issues have been resolved and, if all issues are fixed, your digital asset is eligible for certification and/or a conformance statement.
The cost of the validation is however many hours of technical support is needed. Many clients can complete validation with 5 or less hours of technical support.
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FAQs
What Is a Web Accessibility Audit?
A web accessibility audit is a comprehensive evaluation of your website or web asset that identifies any technical accessibility issues that exist on your web asset.
Why Is a WCAG Audit Important?
A WCAG audit is necessary to know what accessibility issues need to be fixed for WCAG conformance.
How Do You Check Website Accessibility?
We conduct a thorough web accessibility audit, with a series of varying manual reviews aided by assistive technology (screen reader testing) to meticulously evaluate and check website accessibility. We use the AXE automated scan to ensure no issues correctly flagged by a scan are absent from our report.
What Are the Benefits of a WCAG Audit?
A WCAG audit helps you identify and fix accessibility issues and the remediation of those issues improves user experience, expands your potential audience, and reduces the risk of a lawsuit.
