WCAG Audits and Accessibility Testing in Nova Scotia

An act since 2017, standards still in development, and an audit that does not wait.

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Where Nova Scotia stands right now

Nova Scotia has an accessibility act. It does not reach your website. That sounds like a technicality, and it is not, because it decides who you answer to today. The Accessibility Act, passed in 2017, puts a framework in place for standards across six areas, information and communication among them, with the regulations still in development. It names no WCAG standard for private business, and no regulation has arrived that does.

So what reaches a Nova Scotia website right now is federal or nothing. The Accessible Canada Act carries CAN/ASC-EN 301 549, which holds WCAG 2.1 AA inside it. It binds federally regulated organizations wherever they sit. Banking, telecoms, broadcasting, airlines, Crown corporations. Everyone else is left with human rights law. And with the cost of a checkout nobody can finish. So here is what we do about it. We audit against all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules by hand, with a professional blind screen-reader user working your real journeys. WCAG 2.2 is the bar the next standard will be written against.

The law that reaches you in Nova Scotia

Accessible Canada Act (ACA)

Standard: CAN/ASC-EN 301 549 → WCAG 2.1 AA
Where it stands: Dec 5, 2027 / Dec 5, 2028
Who it binds: Public and private sectors
Reaches sellers based abroad: Not by itself
What non-compliance costs: Penalties up to CA$250,000 per violation

Via CAN/ASC-EN 301 549: 2.1 AA
Max penalty (CAD): $250k
Federal web deadline: Dec 2027
Private employees covered: 100+

The Accessible Canada Act dates, 4 of them

Jul 11, 2019ACA in force
2022 to 2024First accessibility plans and feedback processes fall due, a year after each group's fixed day
Dec 5, 2027Federal public sector web pages: CAN/ASC-EN 301 549:2024
Dec 5, 2028Mobile apps and documents, plus private entities with 100+ employees

Read the full Accessible Canada Act page

What accessibility testing in Nova Scotia covers

Start with the honest part. The audit is the same in Nova Scotia as it is anywhere, because WCAG does not change at a border. What changes is which law is watching and what it costs to fail, and the section above settles that.

The work itself runs in three passes. A machine finds the failures a machine can prove. A human works every one of the 55 A and AA rules by hand. Then a professional blind screen-reader user opens your real journeys and tries to finish them, the way your customers would. Every finding arrives with its screenshot and the fix that closes it, drawn from our free library of 432 guides.

None of the reference sits behind a form, either. Every number below counts pages you can go and read right now, free, whether you ever buy an audit or not.

A and AA rules we check: 55
Techniques and failures: 432
ACT test rules: 90
ARIA roles documented: 94
Terms in the glossary: 131
Checklists to work from: 9

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Paid audits at fixed prices on the pricing page, $499 for 10 pages in 5 business days, $1,499 for 25 in 10
The exact deliverable, free to read, as the sample report

The honest limit

And an audit is evidence, not a legal opinion. We tell you what fails, who it stops, and what closes it. Whether that satisfies a regulator or a court in Nova Scotia is a question for your lawyer, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.

Questions owners in Nova Scotia ask us

Does the audit change because my site is in Nova Scotia?

No. WCAG is the same standard everywhere, so the testing is identical wherever you are. What changes is which law is watching and what failing it costs, and that is what the law section on this page settles.

Which law applies to my site in Nova Scotia?

Accessible Canada Act is the one that reach Nova Scotia first, and each has its own page here covering what it asks for, who it lands on, and how it gets enforced. Sell into more than one market and more than one of them can reach you at the same time.

Do I have to publish an accessibility statement in Nova Scotia?

At least one of the laws that reaches Nova Scotia names an accessibility statement, so plan on publishing one. Our free generator writes it from what the audit found, so the page says what actually works today rather than what you hope works.

What does the audit cost, and how fast is the report?

A Rapid Audit is $499 for 10 pages, with the report in 5 business days. A Standard Audit is $1,499 for 25 pages in 10 business days. Once your team has fixed things, the re-audit is half price within 3 months.

Do you actually test with a blind user?

Yes, on every audit. A professional blind screen-reader user opens your real journeys and tries to finish them, and we write down where they stop. That is the pass no scanner can run.

Related on this site

The reading behind the law that reaches you in Nova Scotia, and the guides that turn it into work your team can do.

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Find out where your site stands in Nova Scotia

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