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A Real Estate Audit, Because the Map Needs a List
For the brokerage, portal, or agent site owner who wants every buyer and renter searching the listings, judging the photos, and running the numbers, including the ones who will never see the map.
What We Keep Finding
Real estate sites lean on the three things a screen reader cannot see. The map with the pins is often the only way to browse an area, and where it is the only way, a buyer who cannot see it has no route to your listings at all. The photo gallery carries the whole story of a house and then announces itself as photo one of 32. The mortgage calculator updates a monthly payment that nobody hears change.
None of that is exotic to fix, and two of the three fixes are smaller than teams expect. A list view beside the map, holding the same properties, answers the map problem without touching the map. The calculator needs its result region to announce the whole line rather than the changed digits, which is one attribute in most builds, and it is the difference between hearing "1,240" and hearing "monthly payment, 1,240 dollars". These are template changes, so every listing on the site inherits them the day they ship.
The photos are the one that needs judgment rather than code. The instinct is to make agents write a description for every image, and that is often the wrong answer. Where the caption above the photo already says "kitchen, south facing", the right alt text is empty, because otherwise a screen reader says it twice. The images that need words are the ones carrying something the text around them does not.
What We Check
- Search for a home by keyboard alone, filters, sort, and saved searches
- Test the map view for a list alternative carrying the same listings
- Sort the gallery into photos that need words and photos that repeat the caption
- Run the mortgage calculator with a screen reader and listen for the whole result
- Verify listing details read in order, so price, beds, baths, address
- Test the inquiry and tour-booking forms for labels and errors that speak
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 finding we will not write up. The limit is your MLS feed. The feed's data is what it is, so we separate the barriers your templates create, which you can fix this week, from the ones that need better data at the source, which you mostly cannot. The finding we will not write up is the map itself scrolling in two directions. The reflow rule expressly allows that for maps, and an auditor who flags it is charging you to break something that already conforms.
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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