Can everyone actually use your website?
About 1 in 6 people live with a disability that changes how they use the web — screen readers, keyboard only, magnification, captions. Most sites quietly lock some of them out without anyone noticing. A full-site accessibility test finds every failure, ranked by what it costs you.
Up to 25 pages checked — the complete accessibility findings, plus 20 more categories in the same report.
What web accessibility is, in one paragraph
Four reasons accessibility is not optional
The human case comes first. But the business and legal cases are why accessibility testing moved from nice-to-have to standard practice.
1 in 6 visitors
The WHO counts about 1.3 billion people living with significant disability — roughly one in six of your potential visitors, customers and clients. Every accessibility failure is a door closed on them, usually without the site owner ever knowing.
The legal exposure
In the US, the ADA is widely applied to websites and thousands of digital-accessibility lawsuits are filed every year. In the EU, the European Accessibility Act has applied to many consumer-facing businesses since June 2025. Fixing first is far cheaper than a demand letter.
The revenue you don't see
An unlabeled checkout field, a button a keyboard can't reach, an image with no alt text — each one is a completed purchase that quietly didn't happen. And as the population ages, the share of visitors relying on these accommodations only grows.
The fixes compound
The same mechanics that make a site accessible make it more machine-readable everywhere: alt text describes images to search engines, semantic headings and landmarks give structure, descriptive link text carries meaning out of context. Accessibility work is rarely wasted work.
The failures an accessibility test looks for
These are real checks from our engine — the mechanical failures that affect real visitors on real pages. Each one maps to WCAG success criteria.
Images without alt text
To a screen reader, an unlabeled image is silence. Product photos, charts, icons — anything meaningful needs a text alternative. One of the most common failures we find, and one of the easiest fixes.
Forms without labels
Placeholder-only inputs are invisible to assistive technology: a screen reader announces "edit text, blank" with no clue what to type. Label every field — it also makes fields bigger touch targets for everyone.
"Click here" and bare icons
Screen reader users often navigate by a list of links, stripped of context. "Click here", "read more", or an icon-only social link tell them nothing. Link text should describe the destination.
Broken heading structure
Assistive technology builds a page outline from headings. Skipped levels and multiple H1s turn that outline into noise — the structural equivalent of a document where every line is a title.
Missing landmarks
Landmark regions — main, navigation, footer — let screen reader users jump straight to content instead of listening to the header menu on every single page. A page without them is a building without signage.
No skip link
The first link on the page should let keyboard users skip repetitive navigation. Without it, tabbing to the footer of a long menu means pressing Tab twenty times before reaching anything real.
WCAG in 60 seconds
Every accessibility conversation eventually lands on WCAG. Here's the whole thing, compressed.
| Level | What it means | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A | The floor. Failures here lock people out outright — missing labels, no keyboard access, images with no alternative. | The minimum any site should pass. |
| AA | The practical target. Covers the failures most likely to exclude real users on real sites. | What most laws, settlements and procurement rules reference — including the EAA and ADA settlements. |
| AAA | Enhanced accommodations — sign-language versions, reading-level targets, higher contrast. | Aspirational; not expected site-wide, not required by legislation. |
WCAG 2.2 is the current version, published by the W3C. Our checks are aligned to WCAG success criteria; "AA" is the level to aim for.
What the £7.99 test includes — and what it doesn't
The accessibility findings ride inside the full report. Here's exactly what that means:
The accessibility test
Every accessibility failure on your site, found and ranked — inside the full 21-category report.
- Up to 25 pages checked, exactly as a crawler sees them
- Every accessibility finding ranked by what it costs you, with fix guidance
- Alt text, form labels, link text, heading structure, landmarks, skip links
- The other 20 categories too — SEO, speed, security, legal, AI-Readiness
- Executive briefing + prioritized fix plan + 90-day roadmap
- Delivered by email in ~30 minutes
— Not included
What certified manual audits sell that we don't:
- Certified WCAG / VPAT compliance documentation
- Manual testing with real assistive-technology users
- Remediation — fixing the issues for you
Facing an ADA demand letter or a procurement deadline that needs certification? Buy the $1,500–$5,000 certified tier. But run this test first: most sites have a pile of mechanical failures to clear before certification is even the right conversation — and this report hands that list to your developer.
Fair questions, straight answers
Is website accessibility legally required?
It depends on where you operate. In the US, the ADA is widely applied to websites — thousands of digital-accessibility lawsuits are filed every year. In the EU, the European Accessibility Act has applied to many consumer-facing businesses since June 2025. Public-sector sites face EN 301 549 and Section 508. Whatever the letter of the law where you are: finding and fixing failures first is far cheaper than responding to a demand letter.
What is WCAG 2.2, and which level do I need?
WCAG — the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines — is the accessibility standard published by the W3C; version 2.2 is current. It has three conformance levels: A (the floor), AA (the bar most laws, settlements and procurement rules reference — the practical target), and AAA (enhanced, not expected site-wide). Aim for AA.
Can an automated test catch every accessibility issue?
No — and anyone who says otherwise is selling you something. Automated testing reliably catches the mechanical layer: missing alt text, unlabeled forms, link text, heading structure, landmarks, skip links. The parts that need a human — the real screen-reader experience, keyboard flow through a complex widget, cognitive load — belong to manual testing with assistive technology. Ours is the automated layer across your whole site; certified manual audits are a different product, typically $1,500–$5,000 (see the cost guide).
How much does an accessibility audit cost?
Certified manual accessibility audits run $1,500–$5,000+ with weeks of turnaround — that's what compliance certification costs. Free tools check single pages, one category at a time. Our full-site accessibility test is £7.99 one-time: every mechanical accessibility failure across up to 25 pages, ranked by what it costs you, with fix guidance — inside the full 21-category report. It finds the failures; it doesn't certify compliance.
Find out if your site locks people out.
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