Accessibility Audit - WCAG 2.2 Compliance & Beyond

A WCAG accessibility audit is a structured evaluation of your website or application against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - the international standard for digital accessibility. It identifies barriers that prevent people with disabilities from using your product, documents each issue against the relevant criterion, and provides concrete guidance for remediation.

We audit to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, which is the baseline required by most legal frameworks including ADA (US), AODA (Canada), and EAA (EU). We can also assess Level AAA criteria on request for organizations with the highest accessibility requirements, such as government or healthcare.

Automated tools like axe-core reliably detect only 30-40% of WCAG failures. Issues like illogical focus order, misleading button labels, overly complex ARIA patterns, and cognitive load problems require human judgment and real assistive technology to find. Our audits combine both for comprehensive coverage.

It depends on how many distinct templates and interactive components there are, not on how many pages: twenty pages built from six templates is a smaller job than six pages with six bespoke widgets. We scope every audit before it starts, so you get a fixed date and a fixed price rather than a range from a web page. Bringing a product up to WCAG afterwards is a separate module in our estimate at 60-130 hours, and you can price it against the rest of your scope at kultrix.com/cost-calculator.

We do both. The audit deliverable is a detailed report with code-level fix recommendations. We also offer a follow-on remediation engagement where our engineers implement the fixes, re-test, and verify resolution. Many clients bundle audit and remediation for a single end-to-end engagement.

A VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) is a standardized document that describes how your product conforms to accessibility standards. It is commonly required for government procurement, enterprise software sales, and EU market compliance. We draft VPATs as part of our audit deliverables.

Minor changes are typically required - color contrast adjustments, clearer link text, and visible focus indicators. We document design changes in Figma alongside the code recommendations so your design team can update the design system before engineering implements fixes. The visual impact is usually minimal.

In the US, the ADA has been applied to websites through court decisions, resulting in thousands of lawsuits per year. The EU Accessibility Act mandates compliance for commercial digital products by 2025. Beyond legal risk, inaccessible products systematically exclude a significant portion of your potential user base.

For clients who want the highest-confidence audit, we can arrange moderated usability sessions with participants who use screen readers, switch controls, or other assistive technology. This goes beyond criterion compliance and surfaces real-world usability barriers that technical audits alone cannot detect.

We recommend an initial comprehensive audit followed by ongoing monitoring. Any significant feature release or redesign should be accompanied by an accessibility review before shipping. For fast-moving products, we offer a quarterly retainer that integrates accessibility checks into your sprint cadence.

Yes. We offer team workshops covering semantic HTML, ARIA best practices, keyboard interaction patterns, and how to interpret screen reader output. Trained developers catch accessibility issues during development rather than after launch, dramatically reducing remediation cost.

We classify issues as Critical (blocks all assistive technology users from completing a task), Serious (significantly impairs the experience), Moderate (creates confusion or extra effort), and Minor (cosmetic or edge-case). Critical issues in core user flows - login, checkout, form submission - are always addressed first.