Accessibility Compliance Review

Most organisations that come to us about accessibility are not arguing about whether to do it. They genuinely do not know where they stand: which rules get cited for an organisation like theirs, which deadlines are real, whether their content is close or nowhere near, and what to do on Monday.

That is not a question an automated scan answers. It is 45 minutes with someone who does this work, plus a written report you can take to a budget conversation.

What you get: a 45-minute call with an accessibility specialist, and a readiness report covering up to 10 pages or key templates of your public content against WCAG 2.1 AA, with a prioritised remediation list. The $149 is credited against any remediation engagement placed within 60 days.

Which of our three options you actually want

We sell three things in this area and they are not a ladder you climb. Pick the one that matches your question.

“Is this one file broken?” → the free PDF accessibility checker. Automated, instant, runs in your browser. Start here always. If your document is simple and it comes back clean, you may be finished.

“I know we have a problem — what will fixing it cost?” → the free accessibility assessment. Send a sample, get remediation scoped and priced. Free, and the right route if you already know you have an obligation.

“I don’t know where we stand or what to do first.” → this review. Which standards and deadlines apply to your sector, where your content sits against them, and a prioritised list. That is the gap the other two leave, and it is the one most organisations are actually in.

And if one specific document has to be defensible — attached to a solicitation, going out to the public, already the subject of a complaint — that is the PDF Accessibility Audit at $299: one file, up to 25 pages, tested exhaustively by hand.

What happens on the call

Forty-five minutes, with someone who does remediation rather than someone who sells it. We cover:

• Which standards your content is measured against — WCAG 2.1 AA, Section 508, PDF/UA — and what each one actually governs.
• Which published deadlines apply to organisations in your sector, taken from a single maintained source rather than from memory. Deadlines in this area have moved, and a lot of published advice is stale.
• Where your content sits — a first read on whether you are close, some way off, or starting from a scanned-image backlog.
• What the highest-leverage first moves are, which is usually not the thing people expect. Fixing one recurring template often beats remediating fifty finished documents.
• What this will cost and take, honestly, including when the answer is “less than you feared” and when it is “more.”

Bring whoever owns the content, and if you can, whoever owns the budget. The most useful outcome of these calls is usually those two people hearing the same answer at the same time.

What the report contains

• Your position — which standards and deadlines apply, in writing, with the dates.
• Findings on up to 10 pages or templates, reviewed against WCAG 2.1 AA.
• A prioritised remediation list — what to fix first, why it matters most, and roughly what effort each item takes.
• Where the leverage is — the template or pattern whose repair fixes many documents at once.
• What you can do in-house versus what genuinely needs a specialist. Some of it is a settings change.

Written to be handed to somebody else — a director, a board, a procurement officer, or another vendor entirely. A priority list that only makes sense to the vendor who wrote it is not a plan, it is a pitch.

Pages or templates — choose the one with leverage

Ten pages, or ten templates. Whichever is worth more to you.

For a small site, ten pages of your highest-traffic, highest-obligation public content is usually right.

For anything larger, templates are worth more. A board packet layout, a public notice template, an application form, a newsletter shell — a defect in one of those repeats across hundreds of documents, and fixing the template fixes every document that comes after it. That single realisation is often what the review is worth.

If your content runs to thousands of pages, no fixed-price review covers it, and this one will say so — after looking at a representative sample first, which is the difference between a scoped engagement and a guess.

What this is not

Not legal advice. We map which standards your content is measured against and which published deadlines apply to organisations in your sector, and we show you where you stand. Whether your organisation carries a particular legal obligation, and what your liability is, is a determination for your counsel. We will give you an accurate technical picture; we will not tell you that you are safe.

Not a certification. There is no such thing as being “ADA certified” — no such certification exists, and any vendor offering one is selling something that is not real.

Not a sales call with a paywall. The $149 credits against remediation placed within 60 days, so if you go ahead it effectively cost nothing — and if you do not, you keep a report that works with any other vendor. Those two facts are the whole design.

When language and accessibility are the same problem

A vital document translated into six languages and inaccessible in all six has solved half the problem, six times.

Language access and disability access land on the same files more often than either team expects — public notices, school handbooks, patient and member materials, benefit letters. Both obligations, one document, usually two vendors and two quality processes.

Because this sits inside a language company operating since 2009, one vendor covers the certified translation and the accessibility of the same content, and the review will flag where both apply. See accessibility & compliance services for the full picture and ADA & WCAG website accessibility if your site is the concern rather than your documents.

How to order

1. Order the review. You will be asked for a URL, a sense of your priority content, and any accessibility question you have already received.
2. We schedule the 45 minutes and review your 10 pages or templates before the call, so the time is spent on decisions rather than on discovery.
3. You receive the written report and, if you want it, a remediation quote — with the $149 credited if you place it within 60 days.

Already know you have a problem and just want it priced? The free accessibility assessment is the cheaper route and we would rather you took it.