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A Post-Migration Audit Finds What the Replatform Broke
For the owner who has just moved platforms and wants the things the migration silently broke found and listed before customers meet them.
What We Keep Finding
The migration shipped, the URLs redirect, and the new site looks right. Looking right is the trap. A migration moves what is visible and drops what is not. Alt text stored in a field that did not map. Form labels the new theme never wired up. Focus styles wiped out by a fresh CSS reset. So a site that reads fine to your eyes can read as noise to a screen reader, and the change arrived overnight rather than gradually.
Two of those have a mechanical reason worth knowing. A field can carry grey placeholder text and still count as named, because a browser falls back to the placeholder when nothing better exists. So the field looks labeled to a scanner, and gives a screen-reader user nothing once they start typing. Rebuilding forms on a new platform is exactly when a label gets traded for a placeholder. And focus styles have no ratio attached at Level AA, only a requirement to be visible, which is why a reset that removes them is a real failure rather than a style preference.
One thing we will not do is pad the report. A heading order that skips a level is worth reporting and it is not a Level AA failure, because the rule about nested headings is advisory at that level. So it lands in the report as a usability finding with its own label, and your team can weigh it against the things that actually break the page. A migration audit is the moment somebody is most likely to be handed a heading finding dressed up as a compliance problem, and we would rather you heard the difference from us.
What We Check
- Audit the new templates against all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules
- Check whether alt text survived the content move, not just the images
- Test menus, forms, and search by keyboard, where new themes break first
- Run a real screen-reader session on your key customer journeys, in the pairing your audience uses
- Verify page titles, headings, and focus behavior made it through the swap
- Rank what broke by user impact, so the fix list starts where it hurts
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 with a second half most people do not think about. If the old site is already offline we cannot compare against it, and we will not guess at what used to work, so the report describes the new site as it stands. That is the site your users have now anyway. The second half is your breakpoints. A replatform changes them, our testing is desktop-based, and the standard treats each layout a responsive page presents as its own page that has to conform on its own. So the narrow-screen version of your new theme is outside what we looked at, and the report says so rather than letting a desktop pass stand in for it.
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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