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Automated Accessibility Testing: The Fast Part of the Truth
For the owner or developer who wants the machine's pass first, because it is fast, free, and repeatable. Smart order, as long as nobody calls a scanner's opinion a verdict.
What We Keep Finding
Automated testing is genuinely good at what it is good at. Missing alt attributes, contrast ratios, empty buttons, a page that declares no language. It is fast, it is consistent, and honestly it does a decent job on the mechanical rules. Run it early and run it often, because a failure a machine finds is a real failure and it is the cheapest one you will ever fix.
Then the catch, in two numbers from two different places. On our own grading of 356 of W3C's 432 techniques and failures, 10 sit fully within a machine's reach, which is 2.8%. From the other direction, W3C publishes 87 live test rules, and on 59 of them a clean pass is recorded as meaning the criterion still needs further testing. Only four rules in the whole set can clear a criterion outright, and 24 of the 55 rules an audit covers have no published test rule at all. So a scanner can see that alt text exists and cannot tell you it describes the wrong product. It can find a focus style in your CSS and cannot notice the modal that traps a keyboard.
That is exactly why automation is the first pass of our engine rather than the whole of it. It clears the flat facts before anybody bills you an hour, and it leaves the judgment calls to the two passes that can make them.
What We Check
- Scan your pages in a real browser against all 90 supported automated rules
- Separate the real failures from the noise a scanner report likes to pad with
- Name the rules automation cannot verify, so nothing hides inside a green score
- Feed the results into the expert and screen-reader passes
- Rerun the scan after fixes, free, whenever you need it inside the fair-use limits
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, stated in the numbers rather than in adjectives. Our free scan covers up to 10 URLs, renders one state of each page at one desktop width, and reaches 20 of the 55 rules we audit. That leaves 35 of them untouched, and every multi-page journey along with them. It never opens a dialog, submits a form, or triggers an error, so the failures that only exist mid-interaction are outside what it can ever see. A clean scan means a machine found nothing, not that your site is accessible, and the difference between those two sentences is what the other two passes are for.
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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