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Enterprise Accessibility, the Programme Without the Theatre

For the team that owns 10, 40, or 200 web properties and keeps getting sold platforms when it asked for outcomes. You need every property measured, the worst fixed first, and one number the board understands.

What We Keep Finding

Enterprise accessibility usually arrives as software. A dashboard that scans everything, scores everything, and fixes nothing. That is not a cheap shot, it is what the governance vendors publish themselves. One writes in its own documentation that if the subscription ends, the error is still sitting in your HTML and a developer needs to go and fix it. Another vendor's chief executive has said plainly that no technology on its own will find or fix every issue, or make an organization compliant.

There is a sharper version of that worth knowing if your procurement policy bans overlays, as many now do. Some governance platforms ship overlay-style features as modules of the same script, switched on with a flag. So a policy that rules out overlays at the front door can acquire one through the side entrance, inside a tool nobody classified as an overlay.

What a portfolio actually needs is an order of operations. Which property first. Which template fixes pay off across the whole estate. Which vendor owns which barrier, so the tickets go to the right company. We run portfolios the way we run single sites, scaled into waves, with a human on every property and findings rolling up into one scorecard. Shared-template fixes get hunted deliberately, because one component fixed well is a hundred pages fixed at once.

The fixing itself stays with your teams and your suppliers, and that is not a gap in the offer. It is what stops the scorecard becoming a bill. A firm measuring a portfolio it also gets paid to repair has a reason for the numbers to move, and a reason for them to have been bad in the first place. Ours only ever earns the audit fee, so the chart says what the testing found.

About that scorecard, and this is the sentence to take to your board rather than around it. The scale is ours. Conformance in the standard is defined for a web page. A claim can name a series of pages, so the limit is not the number of pages, it is that every page inside the claim has to conform and a sample cannot answer for the pages nobody opened. So the scorecard is a management instrument, and it is a good one. It is not a claim that any property conforms, and the moment it gets quoted in a supplier questionnaire as though it were, it is saying something the standard has no way to support.

What We Check

Audit the portfolio in scheduled waves, with the priority properties first
Put every property on one scale, tested by the same people with the same method
Hunt the shared-template fixes that clear barriers across the whole estate at once
Say which vendor owns which barrier, so the ticket goes to the right company
Prepare the reports and statements each property needs, with the content each one requires
Re-audit on an agreed cadence, so the scorecard moves for a reason

What You Get

A portfolio picture that stays current. Per-property reports, one executive scorecard, a fix order that starts where users hurt most, and re-audits that show real movement rather than a redrawn chart.

The same senior testers work the whole portfolio, so a consistent method is a fact rather than a slide. And if the honest answer is that you would get more from the sampled portfolio report at a fraction of the cost, we will say so. Auditing forty near-identical franchise sites in full is a way of spending money rather than finding things.

The Honest Limit

One honest limit, and it is arithmetic rather than policy. We will not audit 200 properties in a week, because a human tests every one and a single property runs 5 or 10 business days. Portfolios go in waves on a written schedule, and if your deadline genuinely needs a scanner sweep across everything by Friday, we will say so and point you at one rather than pretend. The sampled portfolio report is the other honest answer, and it is cheaper.

What It Costs

Portfolios are quoted in writing, with flat audit pricing per property and the waves and the cadence agreed up front. The fixing is never on the quote, because we do not sell it, so nothing in the scorecard can be read as a bill in the making. No platform licence, no per-seat anything, and nothing that renews on its own. A programme with an agreed cadence is still a series of separate audits you approve one at a time, which is the difference between a schedule and a retainer.

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