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WCAG 2.2 Audit: All 55 Rules, Tested by People Who Use Them
For the team that is been handed a standard rather than a complaint, by a client, a contract, or a regulator, and now needs a rule-by-rule answer it can hand back.
What We Keep Finding
WCAG 2.2 has 55 rules at Level A and AA, and a scanner can fully settle only a minority of them. The rest need judgment. Is that alt text true? Does focus land somewhere sensible? Can checkout be finished by ear? Chances are pretty good your last WCAG check skipped exactly those, because those are the ones that cost a person an afternoon each.
So every one of the 55 gets reviewed by hand, whether or not a tool has an opinion about it, and every failure arrives with the element pinned and the fix linked. If you need the answer written down rule by rule for each page tested, that grid is the Standard Audit. Rapid runs the same review and reports the failures rather than the full table.
One thing that saves a lot of arguing, if your contract names an older version. W3C states plainly that content conforming to WCAG 2.2 also conforms to WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.0, with no exception attached. So an audit against 2.2 answers a contract written against either older one, and you do not need a second engagement to say so. A regulation is the one case that behaves differently, because it freezes the version it names. WCAG 2.2 retired the parsing rule and the US federal web rules keep it, so where a dated regulation binds you we check that rule as well and say so in the report. If the questionnaire in front of you asks by ISO number instead, WCAG 2.2 was adopted as an international standard in October 2025, and that is the same set of rules under a different name.
What We Check
- Review every Level A and AA success criterion by hand, 1.1.1 through 4.1.3
- Run the machine-checkable rules by scanner first, so nobody bills you for those
- Cover the six A and AA rules new in WCAG 2.2, from consistent help to dragging
- Pin the failing element, the page state, and the markup behind each finding
- Record pass or fail against each of the 55 rules per page, on the Standard Audit
- Link every failure to its plain fix guide from our library of 432
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, in three parts, because a WCAG audit is the page where scope matters most. It is a snapshot of the pages we tested on the dates we tested them, and a redesign next quarter ages it, which is why the re-audit is half price within 3 months. Conformance in the standard is defined for a web page rather than for a website, and W3C's own evaluation methodology says a sample of pages cannot carry a claim about the whole site. So 10 pages or 25 speak for themselves, and for the templates behind them, rather than for the ten thousand URLs we never opened. And our testing is desktop-based, while the standard treats every layout your page presents as a page of its own, so the phone version is outside what we looked at.
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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