WCAG 2.1 AA. Audited by a human.
Tampa websites that earn their place.
A full WCAG 2.1 AA audit plus a prioritised, 30-day fix list. Legal-grade compliance documentation for healthcare, legal, government, and education clients. Pairs with any build or runs standalone on a site you already have. Three business days. Lighthouse catches ~30% of issues; we cover the other 70 with real screen-readers and keyboard-only paths.
Fixed price · 3-day delivery · Conformance statement included
Healthcare, legal, gov, edu? Read why this matters →
- NVDA + VoiceOver tested · not just Lighthouse
- Top 20 fixes ranked by legal-risk × effort
- Conformance statement for your footer
- One free re-test within 60 days
Accessibility QA · Six places most Tampa sites fail WCAG
ADA lawsuits tripled 2018–2024. Most failures are in the same six places.
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Contrast ratios. WCAG 2.1 AA: 4.5:1 for body text, 3:1 for large text and UI elements. Most sites have at least one colour pair below threshold — often a brand-colour CTA failing small-text contrast. One swap fixes every instance sitewide.
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Keyboard navigation. Tab order broken, focus indicator invisible, modal dialogs that trap focus and don’t release, custom dropdowns that don’t respond to arrow keys. Keyboard-only and screen-reader users get stuck.
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Alt text on images. “image1.jpg” isn’t alt text. Neither is “decorative image.” We audit every img tag and ask: useful for a screen-reader user, or noise?
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Form labels + error states. Placeholder text isn’t a label. Errors shown only by red border aren’t announced. Forms are the highest-risk surface for ADA lawsuits because they directly block conversion.
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Heading hierarchy. Skipped levels, multiple H1s, decorative headings. Screen-reader users navigate by heading; if your H1 is followed by an H3, the document outline is broken. Quick to fix, quick to miss.
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ARIA misuse. ARIA roles applied incorrectly are worse than no ARIA at all — they create false promises to screen readers. Common offender: custom dropdowns labelled as menus that don’t behave like menus.
If you’re in healthcare, legal, government, or education, the legal exposure is real and growing. $500 audit. $5K–$25K typical settlement. The math isn’t close.
Accessibility QA · The thing
Lighthouse catches ~30% of WCAG issues. The other 70 require humans with real screen-readers.
If your site is healthy and you trust automated tooling, run Lighthouse yourself — that’s a legitimate path. We’ll tell you so. The trouble is that automated scans cover the criteria a machine can check (contrast, missing alt attributes, missing form labels), and miss the ones a human has to test (does the screen-reader actually announce the error? does keyboard tab order make sense? does that ARIA role lie about what the widget does?).
Plus: Lighthouse outputs a list of 100s of issues with no prioritisation. Yours to triage. Our audit ranks the top 20 by legal-risk × fix-effort, so you know what to fix first — and what 30-minute fixes will cover three quarters of your exposure.
The price isn’t the cost of an audit. The price is senior judgment on top of automated results, plus a defensible compliance document with dated evidence. In settlement negotiations, that’s typically the difference between a $5K outcome and a $25K one.
What you get
A compliance document. Yours to keep.
Three written deliverables in three business days. Designed for handing to legal counsel, internal stakeholders, or your developer.
8–14 page report
Day 3
- Executive summary — WCAG 2.1 AA conformance status in one paragraph anyone on your team can read.
- Automated scan results — Lighthouse, axe DevTools, WAVE, Pa11y CI. The 30% of issues machines catch.
- Manual test results — NVDA on Windows + Firefox, VoiceOver on macOS + Safari, mobile screen-reader (iOS VoiceOver, Android TalkBack), keyboard-only paths, form-specific testing.
- Per-page contrast analysis + form a11y assessment — the surfaces lawsuits actually target.
- Industry-specific compliance check — ADA Title II, Section 508, healthcare, legal, government, education as applicable.
Top 20, ranked + roadmapped
Day 3
- Prioritised fix list — top 20 issues ranked by legal-risk × effort. Not 100s of items you’ll never read.
- 30-day fix roadmap — week-by-week if you’re doing it yourself.
- Code snippets — where applicable, so your developer can execute without re-auditing.
Conformance statement + re-test offer
Day 3 + 60 days
- WCAG 2.1 AA conformance statement — one-page document for your site footer (or for legal counsel) stating your conformance status with a date.
- One free re-test within 60 days after fixes — we re-run the audit on the fixed site, verify remediation, update the conformance statement.
- Legal-defensibility note — what this audit covers and what it doesn’t. No false promises. No guaranteed-immunity claims (nothing guarantees that).
$500, fixed. 3 business days. Conformance statement included. Audit fee credited 100% if you hire us for remediation.
How it ships
Three days. Three deliverables. Real assistive tech.
Faster than the SEO audit because the surface area is more bounded. Same level of senior human attention per page.
Baseline
Full site crawl. Lighthouse, axe DevTools, WAVE, Pa11y CI runs. Color Contrast Analyser sampling every colour pair. Automated baseline established.
→ Crawl + automated scan results
The 70% machines miss
NVDA on Windows + Firefox. VoiceOver on macOS + Safari. Mobile screen-reader (iOS VoiceOver, Android TalkBack). Keyboard-only path testing on every page, every interaction. Form-specific testing per form.
→ Manual test results · per-form findings
Prioritise + ship
Prioritisation: top 20 by legal-risk × effort. Conformance statement drafted. Report assembled, reviewed by a senior, delivered. Re-test offer scheduled for 60 days post-fix.
→ Audit report · fix list · conformance statement
Lighthouse, axe DevTools, WAVE, Color Contrast Analyser, Pa11y CI for the automated layer. NVDA on Windows + Firefox and VoiceOver on macOS + Safari for the manual layer. Keyboard-only path testing on every interaction. Mobile screen-reader testing (iOS VoiceOver, Android TalkBack). Industry-specific check against ADA Title II, Section 508, and similar where applicable. Every recommendation gets human eyes — not automated-only output.
Pricing · One number
$500 fixed. One tier.
Same price for every site. Sites with extreme scale (10,000+ pages) or atypical platforms (custom CMS, native mobile apps) are individually scoped at a higher base.
Standard audit
For the typical Tampa SMB site — up to a few hundred pages, standard WordPress (or similar). Three deliverables, conformance statement included.
- Full site automated scan
- Manual screen-reader testing
- Keyboard-only path testing
- Mobile a11y testing
- Colour contrast analysis
- Form-specific assessment
- Industry-specific compliance check
- Top-20 prioritised fix list
- WCAG 2.1 AA conformance statement
- 30-day fix roadmap
- Code snippets per fix
- One free re-test within 60 days
Audit + remediation
If you want us to fix the issues, we quote remediation as a separate fixed-price engagement after the audit. $500 audit fee is credited 100% against remediation. Net: effectively free if we work together.
- Everything in Standard audit
- Remediation of top-20 fixes
- Re-test included in remediation
- Updated conformance statement
- Best for: healthcare, legal, gov, edu
- Audit fee credited in full
- Senior-led — the strategist running the audit is the one you talk to
- Real assistive tech testing — not automated-only output
- Defensible documentation, dated, yours to keep
- One free re-test within 60 days of fixes (any path)
- Annual re-test available at $250 for past clients
- What this doesn’t do: guarantee no lawsuit. Nothing does. WCAG 2.1 AA conformance is the strongest defense, not an absolute bar.
Pairs well with
Standalone, or layered into a build.
Accessibility QA runs on its own — or as a launch requirement layered into any of these.
Before you commit
Reasonable questions.
If your question isn’t here, ask it on email. We’d rather answer once, in writing.
How real is the legal risk for small businesses?
Real and growing. ADA lawsuits against small business websites tripled between 2018 and 2024. Common targets: healthcare, legal, government contractor, education, restaurant (online ordering), retail (online catalog). Florida specifically has been a hotspot for ADA web-accessibility lawsuits since 2020 — Tampa Bay law firms specialising in plaintiff-side ADA web compliance are active. Cost of a typical settlement: $5K–$25K plus attorney fees. Cost of remediation under threat: 3–5× normal. Our audit is $500.
Which industries need this most?
Highest priority: Healthcare (HIPAA + ADA dual exposure), legal (publicly-facing services), government contractors (Section 508), public education (state requirements). High priority: restaurants with online ordering, retail with online catalogue, financial services, real estate. Standard priority: B2B SaaS, professional services, home services. Lower risk but not zero.
I can run Lighthouse for free. Why pay $500?
Lighthouse catches roughly 30% of WCAG issues — the automatable ones. The other 70% require manual testing with real screen-readers, keyboard-only paths, and human judgment about whether ARIA roles are used correctly. Plus: Lighthouse outputs a list of 100s of issues with no prioritisation. Our audit ranks the top 20 by legal-risk × fix-effort, so you know what to fix first. If your site is healthy and you trust Lighthouse, run it yourself — that’s a legitimate path. $500 buys senior judgment on top of automated results.
What happens after we fix everything?
Free re-test within 60 days. We re-run the audit on the fixed site, verify remediation, update the conformance statement — a one-page document you can post on your site footer (or hand to legal) stating your WCAG 2.1 AA conformance status as of the re-test date. Defensible documentation. Annual re-test recommended (WCAG criteria evolve, sites change); we offer a $250 annual re-test for past clients.
Will this guarantee no lawsuit?
No. Nothing guarantees that. Plaintiff-side firms can file regardless of compliance status. WCAG 2.1 AA conformance is the strongest defense, but it’s not an absolute bar. What our audit provides: a documented compliance position with dated evidence. In settlement negotiations, that’s typically the difference between a $5K outcome and a $25K one.
How long does typical remediation take?
Top-20 fixes from a typical Tampa SMB site audit: 12–24 hours of developer time total, distributed across CSS, HTML, ARIA, and form labels. If your developer hourly is $100/hr, total remediation: $1,200–$2,400. If you hire us: $1,500–$3,500 fixed-price depending on complexity. Time-to-completion: 5–10 business days for most sites; healthcare/legal/government sites typically 10–15 days due to additional internal review. The cost of an audit is a rounding error against the cost of a lawsuit.
Audit slots booked within the week · no queue
Insurance, not aspiration. Get the document.
$500, fixed. Three business days. Defensible WCAG 2.1 AA documentation with dated evidence. One free re-test within 60 days of fixes. Audit fee credited in full if we end up doing the remediation.