Keyboard and focus
Every link, field and menu reached in a sensible order, with something visible saying where you are. It is where most sites fail first.
Website accessibility audit: The people
your site
turns away.
A fixed-price audit against WCAG 2.2 AA, done by hand as well as by tool: what actually stops people using your site, which criterion each barrier fails, and what to fix first.
From £400·WCAG 2.2 AA·Walked through on a call
What a web accessibility audit checks: A WCAG audit,
not a tool report.
A website accessibility audit is half measurement and half judgement, and a tool does the measurement in seconds. W3C is blunt about the rest: no tool alone can determine whether a site meets accessibility standards, and knowledgeable human evaluation is required. That second half is what a day or two of a WCAG auditor's time buys you. A web accessibility audit and a website accessibility audit are the same piece of work under two names, and the report that comes back is the same either way.
Screen readers
The site used with one rather than guessed at. A page can pass every automated check and still announce nothing worth hearing.
Forms, labels and errors
Whether a field says what it wants, and whether an error says what went wrong somewhere other than in red.
Colour, contrast and text
Measured rather than eyeballed, in both themes if you have two, and again at 200 per cent zoom.
Headings and structure
Whether your headings describe the page or just size the text, and whether anybody can skip straight to what they came for.
Motion, media and timing
Anything that moves, plays or times out, and whether it can be paused, stopped or turned off.
Buy an audit: Two sizes,
fixed prices.
Website accessibility audits here are priced at days × £400, like everything else, and no VAT is charged. Accessibility standards for websites in the UK come down to WCAG 2.2 AA in practice, and that is what both sizes measure against.
After you order: Here's what
happens next.
The same rhythm as the SEO audit, and no longer than two days of it.
Straight away
A copy
Of what you sent
Your site, the audit you chose, and a note of anything you told me.
Within
12 hours
I'll be in touch
Working hours. A login for anything behind a wall gets asked for then.
Then
The report
Criterion by criterion
Every barrier, what it fails, who it shuts out and what to do about it.
And then
A call
Walked through together
You decide who fixes what: your team with the notes, or me.
Want the fixes done too? They are quoted at £400 a day.
Buy an auditA tool cannot tell you
what it is like to use.
Before you ask: Accessibility
questions.
If yours is not here, ask it on a call. Thirty minutes, and it is free.
01 What is WCAG?
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, written by the W3C, who write the standards the web runs on. They set out what a page has to do to work for somebody who cannot see it or cannot use a mouse. Version 2.2 is current, and AA is the level people mean.
02 What is an accessibility audit?
Somebody going through your site against those guidelines and writing down what fails, which criterion it fails, and what to do about it. A tool finds the countable half in seconds. The rest is a person using the site with a keyboard and a screen reader.
03 What is WCAG compliance?
Meeting every criterion at the level you are aiming for, usually 2.2 AA, on every page rather than the home page. It describes a site on a day, not for good: add a template next month and the question is open again.
04 Is WCAG a legal requirement in the UK?
Not as a named standard for a private business, though the Equality Act 2010 expects reasonable adjustments and WCAG is the usual yardstick. Public sector sites have their own regulations. For anything that turns on it, ask a solicitor.
05 How much does an accessibility audit cost?
Here, £400 for the accessibility check and £800 for the full audit: 1 day and 2 days at £400 a day, and no VAT is charged. Fixing what it finds is quoted separately, at the same day rate.
06 Is my website WCAG compliant?
Almost certainly not entirely, and that is true of most sites, including carefully built ones. The useful question is which failures are actually turning people away, and that is what the audit answers. A free browser tool only hints at it.
07 Can you certify my site?
Nobody can. The W3C runs no such scheme and no official WCAG certificate exists, so anybody offering one is selling a logo. What you get instead is a report against each WCAG 2.2 AA criterion, so you can say exactly what was tested and what is still outstanding.
Shutting people out?
Better to know.
Order an audit above, or tell me what you are worried about first.
Or email hello@adamroe.co.uk
- Within 12 hoursA reply
- In that replyWhich audit, if any, you need
- OrThe name of someone better placed