About WCAGrules
The audit is the product.
We find the accessibility barriers on your site and hand you the evidence for every one of them. There is one thing on our price list, an audit against WCAG 2.2 carried out with a real blind screen-reader user, and the price is set before we look. So the report tells you what is broken, who it locks out and exactly how to fix it, and nothing in how we get paid depends on how long the list turns out to be.
- $499
- Fixed price, set before we look
- 3
- Passes: machine, expert, blind tester
- 55
- WCAG 2.2 rules checked, every audit
- 0
- Subscriptions, retainers, or locked portals
Why we exist
The accessibility market splits into two camps that do not talk to each other. On one side, scanner dashboards and overlay widgets sell website owners a comforting score while the sites they "protect" keep getting sued. On the other, consultancies sell six-week engagements at agency prices that a small business will never buy. Between them, the owner who just wants a straight answer (what is broken, how bad is it, how do I fix it) is left choosing between a dashboard and a retainer.
So we built the audit that was missing. Fixed price, delivered in days, and carried out the only way that reflects how the site is actually used, which means a professional blind screen-reader user on your real pages alongside an expert review of all 55 WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA rules and a full automated scan. Every finding arrives with a screenshot, the rule it breaks, who it locks out and the exact fix. Which is the point of the whole thing, because a report your team can act on the day it lands is worth more than a score that makes you feel a certain way about your site.
One audit, everything you need to fix it
For website owners
A prioritized list of what is actually broken, not a thousand-row scanner export. Each finding says who it hurts, shows the screenshot, and links the exact fix guide, so your developers can start remediating the day the report lands.
See the packagesFor your developers
Reproduction steps, the exact element, and a linked fix guide for every finding, drawn from a free library of 432. No proprietary portal and no retainer. They fix it, you re-scan it, done.
Browse the fix guidesWe have not found another firm that combines real blind screen-reader testers, a fixed price, and every fix explained free. If you have, we would genuinely like to meet them.
What we deliberately do not sell
An audit firm is only as good as its independence, and independence is easy to claim and hard to demonstrate. These five refusals are how ours is built, and each one names something you could check. The first one is the expensive one.
No repair work, at any price
We audit and we never fix. Not as an add-on, not after the report, not for a fee we would quote you later, because there is no such fee and no such conversation. That costs us the larger half of the money in this trade and it buys the thing the money cannot: when we come back and say a fix landed, we are not describing our own work. Read how to buy the repair from somebody else.
No fee that grows with the findings
The price is fixed and published before anyone opens your site, so a longer findings list never earns us a cent more. That is the whole of our independence and it is checkable in about four seconds, because the number is on the pricing page. There is no second invoice waiting behind the report, because there is nothing else we sell you.
No overlay widgets
We will never sell, install, or recommend a one-line-of-code accessibility widget. The documented record, meaning court decisions, an FTC consent order, and the National Federation of the Blind's own resolutions, says they do not deliver what they are sold for. Read the documented record.
No compliance certificates
Nobody can certify a website immune to lawsuits, and we will not pretend otherwise. WCAG defines conformance for a page, and a claim can name a set of pages, but a sample of your site cannot prove anything about the pages nobody looked at. What you get instead is dated, screenshotted evidence of what a real user hit on your pages, which is the thing that survives somebody asking questions about it.
No subscriptions, no retainers
You pay once, you get the report, and it is yours. There is no card on file and nothing to cancel, because the site has no billing mechanism at all. If you want another audit after you have fixed things, that is your call rather than an auto-renewal.
"So how do I actually fix it?" With your own team, using the report. Every finding links into our 432 free fix guides, open to everyone with no login and no email gate. We tell you exactly how, and the code stays yours.
One more, and it costs us traffic
Our own search deliberately ranks the pages we sell below the reference material. Type a standards question into the site search and you get the law or the rule, not the audit, because a reference site that answers a standards query with its own price list has stopped being a reference site. That weighting is in the code rather than in a promise, and it is the answer to anybody who suspects the free library exists to funnel people at the order form.
Where our independence still bends
Five refusals are easy to publish, because each one is something we do not do. Here is the part that cuts the other way, since a page about independence that names no weak spot is just an advertisement with better manners.
We wrote the fix guides your report links to. Every finding points into our own library, so the report hands you our explanation of the problem alongside our finding of it. The guides are free, ungated and not sold, which removes the money from that loop and does not remove the fact. Each one names the W3C technique it decodes, so you can hold ours against the source and grade us on the difference.
A re-audit is graded against a list we wrote ourselves. Verification measures your fixes against our own original findings, so a barrier we missed the first time stays missed, and the retest reports a page as clear that is not. Nothing about how we are paid answers that one. What answers it is a second pair of eyes from a different firm, and if the stakes are high enough we will tell you to go and get some rather than argue for the work.
The worst one used to live here, and we removed it instead of disclosing it. This paragraph used to explain that if you asked us to quote repair work, we would be pricing against a list we wrote, and that our sign-off on our own repairs would be worth very little. Both were true. Neither is any more, because we stopped selling repair work altogether rather than managing the conflict around it. A disclosure is what you publish when you cannot remove the problem, and this one we could remove.
The code stays yours and nothing depends on us. There is nothing to install, nothing that phones home, and no part of your site that stops working if you never speak to us again. A fix that holds only while you keep paying is the overlay problem in a better suit. What the audit costs is on the pricing page, and what the fixing costs is a different question we answer in our guide to remediation cost.
Who does the work
Every audit is three passes by three different kinds of tester. The machine goes first with a full automated scan of every page, using the same engine behind our free scanner, which is why the free scan is a genuine preview rather than a teaser. Then a WCAG specialist reviews all 55 Level A and AA rules by hand, doing the keyboard-only pass, the zoom pass and the judgement calls no machine can make. Last and most important, a professional blind screen-reader user works through your key journeys and tells us where the site stops making sense. Someone who lives on NVDA, JAWS or VoiceOver every day, in other words, rather than a sighted tester wearing headphones for an afternoon.
Our testers are paid professionals, and their session notes reach you in their own words. What was announced, what was missing, and the point at which they gave up. Two limits worth having in advance. Testing is desktop-based, so how your site behaves on a phone is outside what we looked at, and a Rapid audit runs on one screen reader and browser pairing while a Standard audit runs two. The report names the pairings either way, so you know what the evidence covers. Everything about how the three passes work is public, so read exactly how we test before you decide it is worth $499.
What we give away
The reference library is free because the problem is bigger than our order book, and because you can judge an auditor by how they explain things before you pay them a cent.
Judge us by the work
Run the free scan and read what it hands you. That is the standard of explanation the paid report holds to, with humans on top. The paid format is public too: read the sample report. Or just ask us something, and a person replies within one business day, not a form.