Protect Your Investment
Having an accessible website is an ongoing process. As you add or modify content on your website and as accessibility guidelines and laws change, your website or application may need ongoing modification to ensure continued compliance.
An accessibility monitoring package protects the investment you’ve made in website accessibility, by ensuring that your website stays accessible. Equalize Digital offers continuous website accessibility monitoring to ensure any future changes or content additions to your website will continue to meet the most current accessibility standards.
We offer three core monitoring packages designed for small, medium, and large organizations which include weekly automated scans, periodic manual reviews, and built-in time for remediation. Bespoke pricing available for enterprise organizations operating at scale.
Quick Benefits
- Protect initial accessibility investment
- Weekly automated scans + manual review
- Priority access to our team of experts
- We maintain your accessibility certification over time
- Multiple packages to choose from depending upon your needs
Why Ongoing Accessibility Monitoring
For organizations that are legally obligated to have an accessible website, ongoing monitoring is crucial to meeting that obligation – especially on a website with rapidly changing content or multiple editors. Even with accessibility training, occasionally items are missed, and WCAG and other accessibility guidelines change over time. Equalize Digital’s monitoring plans will ensure your website stays accessible.
Stay Ahead of the Accessibility Learning Curve
Because websites, the technology around them, and even the laws themselves are constantly evolving, accessibility is more of a journey than a destination. All of our monitoring packages also include some amount of monthly remediation, to ensure that our clients never fall behind.
Continuously Mitigate Legal Risks
Unfortunately, just because a website has been made accessible once does not mean it will remain that way. User error, accessibility-breaking software updates, and shifting requirements in the law are just a few things that can come up after a website has been remediated. Monitoring services help to mitigate the risk of any post-remediation legal troubles by keeping you on top of your website’s current state of accessibility.
Be an Upstanding Internet Citizen
We know that having a non-accessible website makes it harder for some individuals to do things online that many of us take for granted. Even if your website starts out 100% accessible, if actions are not taken to monitor and maintain that level of compliance, you risk alienating your user base months or years later. Maintain equal access to your products or services for people of all abilities as part of your organization’s social good efforts.
Accessibility Monitoring Packages
Automated scanning, manual reviews, reporting, and remediation for websites of any size.
Choose a plan that works for your organization.
Pricing When You Pay Annually:
Basic
$297/mo
- Up to 100 pages scanned
- Weekly scans
- No on-demand scans
- 0 PDF accessibility scans
- Weekly accessibility report
- No broken link reports
- No misspelling reports
- No SEO error reports
- No policy monitoring
- No policy violation reports
- 1 hour of remediation
- No strategy calls
Standard
$897/mo
- Up to 500 pages scanned
- Weekly scans
- 1 on-demand scan
- 6 PDF accessibility scans
- Weekly accessibility report
- Broken link reports
- Misspelling reports
- SEO error reports
- No policy monitoring
- No policy violation reports
- 3 hours of remediation
- Quarterly strategy calls
Advanced
$1,697/mo
- Up to 1000 pages scanned
- Weekly scans
- 2 on-demand scans
- 12 PDF accessibility scans
- Weekly accessibility report
- Broken link reports
- Misspelling reports
- SEO error reports
- Custom policy monitoring
- Policy violation reports
- 6 hours of remediation
- Monthly strategy calls
Custom
Bespoke Pricing
- 1000+ pages scanned
- Weekly scans
- 3+ on-demand scans
- >12 PDF accessibility scans
- Weekly accessibility report
- Broken link reports
- Misspelling reports
- SEO error reports
- Custom policy monitoring
- Policy violation reports
- >6 hours of remediation
- Weekly strategy calls
Pricing When You Pay Monthly:
Basic
$327/mo
- Up to 100 pages scanned
- Weekly scans
- No on-demand scans
- 0 PDF accessibility scans
- Weekly accessibility report
- No broken link reports
- No misspelling reports
- No SEO error reports
- No policy monitoring
- No policy violation reports
- 1 hour of remediation
- No strategy calls
Standard
$997/mo
- Up to 500 pages scanned
- Weekly scans
- 1 on-demand scan
- 6 PDF accessibility scans
- Weekly accessibility report
- Broken link reports
- Misspelling reports
- SEO error reports
- No policy monitoring
- No policy violation reports
- 3 hours of remediation
- Quarterly strategy calls
Advanced
$1,897/mo
- Up to 1000 pages scanned
- Weekly scans
- 2 on-demand scans
- 12 PDF accessibility scans
- Weekly accessibility report
- Broken link reports
- Misspelling reports
- SEO error reports
- Custom policy monitoring
- Policy violation reports
- 6 hours of remediation
- Monthly strategy calls
Custom
Bespoke Pricing
- 1000+ pages scanned
- Weekly scans
- 3+ on-demand scans
- >12 PDF accessibility scans
- Weekly accessibility report
- Broken link reports
- Misspelling reports
- SEO error reports
- Custom policy monitoring
- Policy violation reports
- >6 hours of remediation
- Weekly strategy calls
Accessibility Monitoring FAQs
Yes, we can provide accessibility monitoring for websites that we did not build, however your website will need to first receive an accessibility audit and go through remediation (if necessary). Our accessibility monitoring services are for websites that are already accessible and need monitoring and review to ensure they stay that way.
At a base level, all of our monitoring tiers include:
- weekly accessibility scans;
- weekly accessibility reports showing you the number of errors present, a list of pages scanned and the number of errors per page, and the types of errors found;
- regular manual review by our team; and
- some amount of time for remediating problems.
In addition, some of our larger plans include scanning for quality assurance issues like misspellings and broken links, and scanning for SEO errors like missing meta descriptions, duplicate content, etc. Please see the pricing information above for more details about what is included at every tier.
Our SEO scans identify common issues that can cause your website to rank poorly in search engines, including:
- duplicate page titles
- missing page title
- missing meta description
- missing H1
- duplicate H1
- multiple H1 on page
- images missing alt tags
- content on page too short
- missing subheadings
- meta description too long or too short
- too many internal links
- URL too long
- pages marked “no index”
In our auditing system, we have the ability to set specific rules unique to your business that we watch for. These can be rules related to formatting, for example:
- If you prefer phone numbers to always be written with dashes and not periods, we can flag instances on your site where someone did not follow that standard.
- We can catch casing issues for industry-specific terms (like if someone incorrectly writes “WordPress” instead of “WordPress.”
- We can set rules to alert us if there is an instance where you company name is missing the trademark symbol, etc.
Custom policies are also very useful if someone leaves your team and you need to search for all instances of their name or email address on your website. This could also be used to flag certain words that you don’t want people to use when talking about gender or disabilities, etc.
There is a lot we can do with custom policies that will help to improve both your brand image and ensure that your users have the best experience on your website. Have an idea for something that needs to be monitored or tracked? Let us know and we’ll get it implemented!
By default, we scan your website once per week at the same day and time. Let’s say we scan your website on a Monday and on Tuesday you fix a large number of issues on the site. With an “on-demand scan” you don’t have to wait until the following Monday to see the results of your efforts. Just contact us and we can initiate a scan and send you reports right away.
Yes! Though we have a set number of PDF scans built into some pricing tiers above, we’re also able to run “a la carte” PDF scans on a document by document basis as needed. Additional scans are $3.50 each.
Please note that pricing is per scan, not per PDF. So if you have us scan the same PDF 3 times to confirm that you’ve fixed issues, that will count as 3 scans, not 1 scan.
If you’re unsure of how many pages you’ll need us to monitor, we’re happy to crawl your website and give you an estimated number of pages on your website.
In our experience, small business websites without a blog typically have 30-50 pages. If you have a more active website like ours with some service pages, industry pages, and a blog, then you may have around 300 pages, depending upon how frequently and for how many years you have been blogging. E-commerce stores, event websites, websites that house a lot of data, and websites for large organizations will likely need 1000 or more pages scanned.
Yes, it is possible to increase the number of pages in your monitoring plan’s scan limit without moving to another pricing tier. We can add pages to your plan at an additional monthly cost of $30 per 100 additional pages.
