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A Verification Re-Audit Asks Whether the Fixes Landed

For the team that worked through its fix list and wants the closure earned rather than assumed, checked by the same testers who found the barriers and by nobody who touched the code. Same pages, same three passes, and a dated verdict of fixed, regressed, or remaining on every finding in your original report.

What We Keep Finding

"Fixed" is a claim until somebody retests it, and accessibility fixes fail quietly. The label that got attached to the wrong field, which passes the rule about labels and fails the one about structure. The focus style that came back in one browser and not the other. The aria attribute that satisfied the scanner and baffled the screen reader. Your ticket system says done. A user on NVDA decides whether that is true.

There are two regressions we see so often they are nearly a signature, and both of them come from fixing the right thing twice. A team told an update was not announced adds a live region and moves focus to it, so now the message gets read out twice and the second one interrupts the first. A team using the browser's own dialog element writes manual focus restoration on top of the restoration the browser was already doing, and the two fight. Both look like diligence in a pull request. Both are new findings.

So verification reruns your audit exactly the way it ran the first time. Same pages, same three passes, machine, expert, and a real blind screen-reader user, working through every finding in your report one at a time. Each comes back fixed, regressed, or remaining, with fresh dated evidence either way. And because you already paid for the first look, this one is half price within 3 months of your report.

One more thing, and it is the part that decides what this document is worth to anybody outside your company. We do not sell repair work, at any price, so we cannot have been the ones who made these fixes. Whoever did the work, it was not us, which is what turns a retest into a check rather than a firm grading its own homework. That matters most exactly when the verdict matters most, which is when a regulator, a buyer, a court or a board is going to read it instead of taking your word for it.

What We Check

Rerun all three passes on the exact pages from your report
Retest every finding and mark it fixed, regressed, or remaining
Put a real blind screen-reader user back on the journeys that failed
Check the fixes did not break whatever was standing next to them
Watch for the double fix, where one change lands twice and starts announcing twice
Reissue the report with dated evidence of the before and the after

What You Get

The same three passes your first audit ran. The automated scan, the expert review against all 55 WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA rules, and a professional blind screen-reader user back on the same journeys, against the same pages, so the comparison actually holds.

What lands is your report reissued. Every original finding carries a dated verdict and fresh evidence, and anything new that arrived while the fixes were going in arrives with it, ranked alongside the rest. It is the same document you already have with one more column, so you can read the sample report if you want the shape of it before you commit.

The Honest Limit

One honest limit and one signpost, and a disclosure that used to sit between them and no longer needs to. The limit is that some findings will come back marked remaining, and we will say so plainly, because a verification that cannot fail would prove nothing and proving things is the entire product. There used to be a warning here that if any of the repair work had been ours, we would be marking our own homework. We sell no repair work now, so there is nothing left to warn you about. The signpost is about scope. This is the retest and the reissued report, which is the cheaper of the two doors. If somebody outside your team has to read the progress rather than take it on trust, the progress delta report is the one that charts the two reports against each other.

What It Costs

A verification re-audit is half of whatever you paid for the audit it follows, any time within 3 months of that report. Same pages, same three passes, no subscription and nothing to cancel. After 3 months it is a fresh audit at the normal price, because by then the site has usually moved far enough that a retest is not really a retest any more.

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