Our Web Accessibility Audit and Upgrade service identifies and fixes barriers that prevent people with disabilities from accessing your website, applications, and digital content. We’ll assess your site against WCAG industry standards, ensuring inclusivity, legal compliance, and a better user experience for all.
From in-depth audits to hands-on improvements, we help you achieve compliance, improve usability, and expand your audience. We provide a comprehensive multi-step process that covers auditing, remediation, compliance, training, and ongoing monitoring.
Web Accessibility Audit
Assessing your site against WCAG 2.1 (A, AA, AAA) standards, and delivering a detailed audit report with issue breakdown, severity rankings, and remediation recommendations.
A thorough audit assesses your website against the established accessibility standards WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), ensuring your site meets legal requirements and is accessible to users with disabilities, reducing legal risks and improving inclusivity.
Beyond compliance, our audit will evaluate real-world usability for people with disabilities. We review keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, contrast ratios, alternative text for images, and interactive elements to ensure an intuitive, barrier-free experience for all users.
Our audit doesn’t just highlight issues—it provides clear, prioritized, and practical solutions for developers and content creators. This includes design adjustments and content improvements to enhance accessibility without compromising aesthetics or functionality.
Web Accessibility Upgrade
Helping businesses and organisations create barrier-free digital experiences by identifying and fixing accessibility issues, ensuring compliance with WCAG, ADA, and other global standards.
Providing hands-on fixes to improve accessibility. Including adjusting design for better screen reader compatibility, enhancing colour contrast, typography, and interactive elements, and implementing accessible navigation. Ensuring your website is fully accessible and reducing legal risks while improving user experience for everyone.
Accessibility isn’t a one-time fix—it requires ongoing updates and awareness. We can provide accessibility training for teams, including content creators and designers, and best practice documentation for future updates. We also offer ongoing web accessibility maintenance plans to stay compliant with evolving standards.
Ensuring your website adheres to global accessibility laws and provides official documentation, including compliance reports detailing accessibility improvements, certification of accessibility standards, and guidance on legal obligations to avoid lawsuits and fines. Legal compliance protects your business while demonstrating a commitment to inclusivity, improving trust and reputation.
What is a Web Accessibility Audit?
A web accessibility audit is a detailed evaluation of a website’s compliance with accessibility standards, ensuring that users with disabilities can navigate, understand, and interact with the content effectively.
Compliance with web accessibility standards improves user experience for all visitors. It expands your audience reach by making content available to a wider audience. There are 16 million people with a disability in the UK.
Compliance with web accessibility standards helps you build a more inclusive, ethical digital presence. It boosts SEO, as search engines favour accessible websites. Compliance with web accessibility standards also reduces legal risks. In the UK, all digital and technology activity must be in full compliance with the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018 and the Equality Act 2010.
Our Web Accessibility Audit will ensure your website is fully compliant, adhering to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) created by the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Accessibility Initiative.
Automated Testing: Using AI-powered tools WAVE, Axe, and Lighthouse, we scan for accessibility errors (e.g., missing alt text, colour contrast issues, and ARIA implementation). Manual Testing: We personally evaluate your site to detect issues automated tools may miss, including logical reading order, keyboard navigation, and screen reader compatibility.
We ensure users can navigate entirely via the keyboard (Tab, Enter, Spacebar, Arrow Keys) without relying on a mouse. We identify focus order issues, missing keyboard traps, and improper use of skip links.
We check text-to-background contrast ratios to meet WCAG contrast guidelines (4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text). We evaluate colour-dependent elements (e.g., form errors highlighted only in red), and test resizable text to ensure users can zoom up to 200% without losing functionality.
We ensure all images, infographics, and decorative visuals have accurate alt text or ARIA-hidden attributes. We check for captions and transcripts on videos and podcasts, and evaluate audio controls to ensure users can pause, stop, or adjust volume.
We test whether forms are fully accessible, including: proper labelling of input fields (e.g., Name, Email), associate error messages with form fields for clarity, and ensure forms work without a mouse (via Tab & Enter keys). We also ensure interactive elements (dropdowns, buttons, sliders) follow best practices for screen reader usability.
Migrate the website to server. Conduct final quality assurance checks. Ensure DNS settings are configured correctly. Announce launch of website to stakeholders and target audiences.
We provide a detailed audit report outlining all detected accessibility issues. This includes remediation recommendations with priority levels. It can also include a formal accessibility statement for transparency and legal protection.
Full Accessibility Report with issue breakdown and severity ranking.
Annotated Screenshots & Code Fix Recommendations.
Compliance Score & Accessibility Roadmap.
Guidelines for Designers and Content Creators to maintain accessibility standards long-term.
Once issues are identified, the next step is fixing them to ensure the website is fully accessible. This includes visual and design improvements, including colour contrast adjustments to meet WCAG guidelines, resizing text and flexible layouts, and implementing skip navigation links and readable font styles. Also included are multimedia enhancements, adding alt text for images and infographics, and providing transcripts and captions for video/audio content.
We create an accessibility statement to show compliance and commitment to inclusivity. The accessibility statement includes compliance level achieved (WCAG A, AA, or AAA), known limitations and ongoing improvements, and how users can report accessibility issues. It also includes VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) Certification for businesses that require official documentation, and a public accessibility statement with compliance documentation.
To maintain accessibility, teams need training on how to create and manage content inclusively. We offer training for designers, content creators, and marketers, including guidance on accessible forms, navigation, and media, assistive technology compatibility, writing descriptive alt tags and accessible headings, and ensuring PDFs, documents, and social posts are inclusive. We provide custom training sessions, guides, and best practice checklists.
Maintaining accessibility standards requires continuous updates as websites evolve. Our web accessibility maintenance service is dedicated to ensuring long-term accessibility, including regular compliance scans, monthly automated scans to catch new issues, and monthly monitoring reports. It also includes future-proofing, monitoring for ongoing updates for WCAG 2.2+ and emerging assistive technologies.
Full Accessibility Audit Report (with compliance gaps and recommendations).
Remediated & Accessible Website (fully optimized for all users).
Accessibility Statement & Compliance Documentation.
Team Training & Accessibility Best Practices Guide.
Option of Ongoing Web Accessibility Maintenance
Web accessibility ensures that people of all abilities, including those with disabilities, can access and interact with your website effectively. This includes users with visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive impairments who may rely on assistive technologies such as screen readers, keyboard navigation, or voice commands. It matters because many countries enforce accessibility laws, and non-compliance can lead to lawsuits. It matters because an accessible site improves user experience, benefitting all users, not just those with disabilities. It matters because demonstrating inclusivity strengthens customer trust and brand reputation. Accessibility-friendly sites rank better on search engines, increasing visibility and website traffic.
The best way to determine accessibility is through a professional accessibility audit. Our web accessibility audit service includes automated and manual testing to check for WCAG compliance and comprehensive reporting outlining barriers and recommended fixes. You can also perform a basic check by testing keyboard navigation (can you navigate your site without a mouse?), running contrast checks for readability, and ensuring images have alt text for screen readers. If you’re unsure, we can assess your site and provide a detailed report on what needs improvement.
Our audit can uncover a range of accessibility issues, including missing or incorrect alt text for images, poor colour contrast making text hard to read, forms that lack proper labels for screen readers, and websites that cannot be navigated using a keyboard. Our audits will also identify issues like multimedia without captions or transcripts, making content inaccessible to users with hearing impairments, and inconsistent heading structures, affecting screen reader navigation. Identifying and fixing these issues improves usability for all visitors and ensures compliance with accessibility regulations.
Our comprehensive web accessibility service includes an accessibility audit, a full website analysis using manual and automated testing, remediation and fixes, hands-on improvements to fix accessibility barriers, compliance certification, and a report certifying your website meets WCAG requirements. We also offer ongoing support and training, continuous monitoring and guidance to keep your site accessible. We can tailor our service to your business needs and budget, ensuring long-term accessibility compliance.
The time required for web accessibility depends on factors like site size, complexity, and existing issues. Small websites (1-10 pages) should take around 1-2 weeks, medium websites (10-50 pages) should take 3-5 weeks. Making a large/complex website (50+ pages) fully accessible will be an ongoing process with phased improvements. If you need a quick assessment, we offer a basic audit within a few days, followed by a tailored plan for full compliance.
Web accessibility is not a one-time task. It should be an ongoing commitment. We recommend conducting an audit before launching a new website to ensure accessibility from the start and whenever major updates or redesigns are made, as new features can introduce accessibility barriers. We would also recommend a general accessibility audit at least once a year, to keep up with changing guidelines and evolving best practices. By regularly reviewing accessibility, you ensure a seamless, inclusive experience for all users while maintaining compliance with accessibility guidelines.
Many countries have legal requirements for web accessibility, and failing to comply can lead to lawsuits, fines, and reputational damage. In the U.K. and EU, The Equality Act 2010 and European Accessibility Act enforce digital accessibility requirements. In the U.S., the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires businesses to provide accessible digital experiences. Major brands have faced lawsuits due to non-compliant websites. In the UK, Public sector websites must comply with WCAG 2.1 AA standards under the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations. An accessibility audit helps protect your business from legal risks while ensuring inclusivity and a positive brand reputation.
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