Terms and conditions.

WCAGrules ("we", "us") provides website accessibility auditing services and free accessibility resources at wcagrules.com. These terms cover the paid audits, the free 10-page scan, the free tools and the reference library. If you order an audit on behalf of a company or a client, you are confirming you have the authority to agree to these terms for them.

Paid audits. We audit websites against WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA in three passes, an automated scan, an expert manual review, and testing by a professional blind screen-reader user. The packages, prices, page counts and delivery targets are whatever the pricing page says at the time you order, so that page is the specification and these terms point at it rather than repeating it.

Two limits on every audit, stated here as well as there. Testing is desktop-based, so we are not evaluating how the site behaves at phone widths. And an audit covers the pages in your scope rather than your website, because WCAG defines conformance for a web page and W3C's own evaluation methodology says a sample cannot support a conformance claim for a whole site.

Free scan and tools. The free scan and free tools are automated helpers provided as-is, with no promise of completeness, because automated checks can only verify a fraction of WCAG. They are a starting point rather than an audit, and we say the same thing on the pages that offer them.

What we do not sell. We do not sell repair work. Not as an add-on, not after the report, not at any price, and there is no arrangement under which we would. No overlay widgets and no compliance certificates either, and nothing on this site is sold on a subscription or a retainer. An audit report tells you what is broken and how to fix it, because naming the remedy is what makes the report worth reading, and the fixing is then done by you, your developers, or a supplier you choose. That is also why we are able to retest somebody else's fixes and mean it.

Audit prices are fixed and published before you order, and you pay as you place the order, by card, on Stripe's hosted checkout. No card details are collected on this site at any point. We then confirm the scope with you by email, normally the same business day, and the order becomes a contract when we accept that scope. If something about your site makes the scope unusual, for example it needs accounts we cannot create, or it is not reachable from where we are, we say so before starting and refund in full rather than deliver a hollow report, as the refund policy promises.

The delivery targets are 5 business days for Rapid and 10 for Standard, and both are counted from order confirmation and payment rather than from the day you submitted the form. You receive the report as a web report and a PDF, carrying the findings, their severity, the screenshots and the fix guidance. If anything blocks our testers, a site that goes down, a login wall, a country block, we will tell you promptly and the clock pauses until it is resolved.

If we have not started your audit, you get a full refund and we will not ask why. Once the audit is underway we complete it and deliver it, because people have started work by then. Then there is the second situation. If the delivered report does not match what the pricing page promised, tell us and we make it right, which can mean re-testing, extending the coverage, or a partial or full refund depending on what fell short. Requests go to hello@wcagrules.com, and the one-page version of all this lives at the refund policy.

You confirm that the website you submit, whether for a paid audit or the free scan, is yours or that you are authorized to have it tested. Please do not point our tools at sites you have no rights over. For a paid audit you also give us what the scope needs, meaning the right URLs, test accounts where a key journey sits behind a login, and one contact who can answer a question inside a day. That last one matters more than it sounds, because a testing week with nobody to ask is where delivery dates go wrong.

An audit report documents what we found on specific pages on specific dates, measured against WCAG 2.2. That makes it expert evidence of the state of those pages, which is a genuinely useful thing to hold.

It is not legal advice, not a certification, and not a guarantee that you comply with any law or that you will never receive a complaint. It is also not a statement about your whole website, because it covers the pages in scope and WCAG defines conformance for a page rather than for a site. And websites change, so a report is a snapshot rather than a subscription. It describes the pages we tested, in the state they were in, on the dates on the cover. A deployment that does not touch those pages does not invalidate it. One that rebuilds them does, and only a retest tells you which kind you shipped. For legal questions, talk to a lawyer, because our law guides are orientation rather than counsel.

The three tools that go and fetch a page for you, the scan, the heading checker and the link text checker, are rate limited to keep them free for everyone. The rest run in your own browser and cost us nothing to give away. Either way, do not script against them, resell them, or use them to probe sites you do not control. We can restrict access that abuses them.

Your report is yours. Use it internally, share it with your developers, hand it to your lawyer, put it in front of a court or a regulator. The one thing you cannot do is republish it as marketing, as in "WCAGrules approved", because a findings report says what we found rather than that we endorse you, and a badge built out of one would be exactly the certificate we refuse to sell.

The content of this site, meaning the guides, the tools and the design, belongs to us. Quote a paragraph or two with attribution and a link, which is what quoting means and is genuinely welcome. Republishing a whole page or the fix library is not. WCAG itself is published by the W3C, and we are independent of them.

We stand behind the quality of our work, and section 5 says what happens when it falls short. Beyond that, our total liability for any claim connected to a service is capped at the amount you paid us for that service, so a $499 audit carries $499 of liability. We are not liable for indirect losses, which covers lost profits, legal claims brought by other people, and what the repair work costs you, since you buy that from somebody else and we never see the invoice. Nothing here limits liability that the law does not allow us to limit.

We collect what the services need, meaning the contact details you send us, your order details, the URLs you ask us to scan, and the scan results. We do not sell or rent it, and this site runs no advertising trackers. We use analytics to understand visits and improve the site. Those analytics may use cookies or similar browser storage. Want something deleted? Email hello@wcagrules.com and we will remove it. The full version, including the short list of companies that handle any of it, is in the privacy policy.

We may update these terms as the service changes. The date at the top always tells you which version you are reading, and a material change never applies retroactively to an order already in progress, so the terms you agreed to are the terms your audit runs under. Questions about any of this go to our contact page, where a human replies within one business day.