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Audit the Old Site Before You Replace It
For the owner with a redesign on the calendar who wants the new site launching without the old site's barriers quietly rebuilt into it.
What We Keep Finding
The redesign is approved, the agency is shortlisted, and the site you have just became a reference file. That is the cheapest accessibility moment you will ever get. A barrier caught now is one line in a design brief. The same barrier caught after launch is a change request, a ticket, and an argument about whose scope it was.
The catch is that nobody audits a site they are about to throw away. So the new design gets built from the old one's screenshots, and the unlabeled icon buttons, the low-contrast palette and the keyboard-hostile menu all get faithfully rebuilt in a fresh coat of paint. The palette is the one that hurts most, because it is nearly free to change while it is still a swatch and expensive to change once it is a brand guideline with 40 components sitting on top of it.
There is a split worth knowing before the audit even starts, because it decides which findings survive the rebuild. A redesign replaces your templates and migrates your content. So the template findings are instructions for the new build, and the content findings come with you whatever the new site looks like. We separate them for exactly that reason, and the second pile is usually the one that surprises people.
What We Check
- Audit the current site against all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules
- Split template barriers from content barriers, since the rebuild only replaces one
- Flag the patterns the new design must not inherit, ranked by user impact
- Run real screen-reader sessions, so the brief reflects use rather than guesswork
- Link every finding to its 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 and one piece of timing that catches people out. The limit is that we audit the site you have, not the mockups you are planning. So the redesign gets a list of mistakes it does not have to repeat, rather than a review of the new design. The timing is the half-price re-audit. It runs for 3 months from your report, and a redesign audited today usually launches six or nine months later, which puts the new site outside that window. Book the pre-launch audit for the new site as its own job and budget it that way rather than expecting the discount to still be there.
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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