Accessibility Overlays vs. Manual Remediation: What Actually Fixes Your Website (and What Just Covers It Up)
Fourteen months later, they get a second letter. Same law firm, different plaintiff, nearly identical complaint. The widget is still there, blinking away in the corner. Nothing about the actual site has changed. If that sounds unfair, it isn’t really, and once you understand what these tools do and don’t do, it stops being surprising. […]
What Happens in a Manual Website Accessibility Audit? Our Step-by-Step Process
The owner is usually surprised, because their site had “passed” an automated scan. And that, in one sentence, is why this article exists. If you’re considering an accessibility audit, you deserve to know exactly what you’re buying. So here is our entire website accessibility audit process, step by step, in plain English, what we do, […]
WCAG 2.2 Website Audit Checklist: A Plain-English Guide
Somewhere on your website right now, there is a button someone cannot press. Maybe it is the tiny “X” on a popup that a visitor with shaky hands keeps missing. Maybe it is a login screen asking someone with memory trouble to solve a puzzle before they can pay a bill. Maybe it is a […]
VPAT vs ACR: What They Are and When You Need One
VPAT vs ACR, explained in plain English: the VPAT is the blank template, the ACR is the finished accessibility report buyers actually want. Who needs one, what a good one looks like, and how to get one.
ADA Title II Compliance Checklist for Cities, Counties & Districts
A plain-English ADA Title II compliance checklist for cities, counties, and special districts: your website, your PDFs, third-party tools, the exceptions, and the 2027 and 2028 deadlines.
Manual vs. Automated Accessibility Testing: What the Scanners Miss
Here’s a two-minute experiment that will teach you more about accessibility testing than most sales pitches. Open your website and put your mouse away. Now try to do the one thing your visitors actually come to do, fill out the contact form, find the meeting agenda, pay the bill, using only the Tab, Enter, and […]
The ADA Title II Web Rule, Explained in Plain English (New 2027 and 2028 Deadlines)
If you work for a city, county, school district, or any other local government, here’s the short version: there is now a federal rule that says your website and the documents on it, must work for people with disabilities. It has real deadlines. And the clock is already running. That rule is the ADA Title […]
Why Accessibility Overlays Won’t Protect You From Lawsuits (an Honest Look)
The pitch sounds wonderful: add one line of code to your website, pay a monthly fee, and an accessibility overlay makes you instantly compliant. Lawsuits, deadlines, WCAG, all handled. If it were true, we’d recommend it. It isn’t. Let’s walk through what an accessibility overlay actually does, why sites using them keep getting sued, and […]
Website Accessibility Audit Cost: A Full Pricing Guide
What Does a Website Accessibility Audit Cost? Website accessibility audit cost depends on what’s actually being tested, and that’s the first thing to understand, because “audit” means wildly different things across the industry. A $99 “audit” is an automated scan report. A professional manual audit, where specialists test your templates, forms, and user flows with […]
Website Accessibility Remediation: The Full Process (and What It Costs)
What Is Website Accessibility Remediation? Website accessibility remediation is the process of finding and fixing the barriers that prevent people with disabilities from using your website, in the actual code, templates, and content, not with a widget layered on top. An audit tells you what is broken. Remediation is the work of repairing it: headings, […]
