What We Keep Finding
The AODA does something most accessibility laws do not. It names its own terms. If your private or nonprofit organization in Ontario has 50 or more employees, your public website has been required to meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA since January 1, 2021. That is not a court's reading or an agency's guidance. The regulation says the level, the date, and who is covered.
So here is the number your compliance lead needs, because it is not the one people quote. WCAG 2.0 at A and AA is 38 rules, and the Ontario regulation carves two of them out by name, live captions and audio description for recorded video. Your web duty is 36. Most generic WCAG advice will tell an Ontario organization it has to caption its live streams, and for this regulation that is simply wrong, which is worth knowing before somebody budgets for it.
We test the current standard, all 55 rules of WCAG 2.2, and mark which findings sit inside your 36. That works because the versions are backwards compatible, so content conforming to 2.2 conforms to 2.0 as well. Of your 36, every one but the old parsing rule is a live rule in 2.2. That one needs handling rather than assuming, because the Ontario regulation names WCAG 2.0 and the parsing rule is in WCAG 2.0 as published, while WCAG 2.2 dropped it. So we check it, say so in the report, and one audit answers the regulator's question while showing you what a newer standard would ask for next.
What We Check
- Test against WCAG 2.0 Level AA, the level the Ontario regulation names
- Apply the regulation's own carve-outs for live captions and audio description
- Audit all 55 rules of current WCAG 2.2, so newer barriers surface too
- Run key journeys with a real blind screen-reader user, on NVDA or JAWS as you prefer
- Mark each finding as inside or outside the AODA duty, with the fix linked
What You Get
Every service on this site runs the same three-pass engine: an automated scan, an expert review of all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules, and a hands-on session with a professional blind screen-reader user. You get one report with every finding screenshotted, ranked by user impact, and linked to its fix. Your team fixes, we verify: the re-audit is half price within 3 months.
The format is not a mystery either. Read the sample report before you spend anything.
The Honest Limit
One honest limit and one date that is not ours to check. The limit is that the AODA asks for a great deal more than a website. Policies, training records and feedback processes belong to your compliance lead, and what you get from us is the technical evidence, page by page. The date is the accessibility compliance report, which runs on a different employee threshold entirely. That one starts at 20 employees rather than 50, and the next report is due December 31, 2026. Plenty of organizations owe the report and not the web duty, so check which of the two you are before you plan around either.
What It Costs
Rapid Audit: $499, up to 10 pages you pick, report in 5 business days. Standard Audit: $1,499, up to 25 pages in 10 business days. Flat rates, no discovery calls, and a real blind screen-reader user on every engagement. Pick your pages. We bring the humans.
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