Bring Your WordPress Site Into Compliance
In recent years, there has been a significant surge in Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) lawsuits filed and won against companies and nonprofit organizations for having inaccessible websites that cannot be used by people of all abilities. Beyond the ADA, other laws around the world, such as Section 508, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), and the European Accessibility Act, among others, require websites to be accessible.
Equalize Digital offers rapid accessibility audits that help you determine, as quickly as possible, what accessibility problems exist on your website. We offer website accessibility remediation services to improve the accessibility of your WordPress website affordably and over time. Choose a plan that makes sense for your organizational goals, timeline, and budget.
Our team of website accessibility consultant experts will help you eliminate barriers on your website and ensure your website conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Our Expertise
- More than a decade of WordPress accessibility and enterprise custom development experience.
- Team members participate in the WordPress core accessibility team.
- Accessibility consultants on the NASA.gov website.
- Experience working with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) on higher education website accessibility remediation.
- Trusted accessibility consultant by multiple WordPress plugin developers used by millions of websites.
- Real users of assistive technology and people with disabilities perform real-world tests.
- WordPress VIP technology partner.
Why Equalize Digital
Our goal is to help you have a fully accessible website, one that conforms with the ADA, Section 508, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, the European Accessibility Act and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 guidelines, in the shortest amount of time. Below is an overview of how we’re different from other accessibility companies.
We Do Audits Differently
At Equalize Digital we recognize that most organizations request an accessibility audit not because they want to receive a massive PDF report with hundreds of pages, but because they want to make sure their website is fully compliant. Rather than spending weeks auditing your website and making no fixes, we have an audit and remediate as we go process that allows us to quickly determine the scope and set priorities for remediation, then get started making fixes right away. Learn more about our approach to audits.
Real Fixes – Not Overlays
There are tools on the market that promise “instant accessibility” and only require inserting a line of JavaScript code on your website. These overlays use AI to attempt to fix accessibility problems on the page as it loads, however they come with a number of downsides and have even been cited in accessibility lawsuits. Our approach is to make corrections in the source code and includes a human review of every item to ensure 100% accessibility.
Real-World User Testing
We employ blind and visually impaired testers using JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver with keyboard navigation on desktop and voice control on mobile. For websites that serve audiences with lower reading levels or lower cognitive function, we also recommend testing with users in that demographic. User testing is included in all remediation packages. Learn more about website user testing.
Accessibility Training for Your Team
Our goal is not just to improve the accessibility of your website, but also to provide training and education to your in-house team – designers, developers, and content managers – to ensure that you have the skills necessary to maintain accessibility compliance on an ongoing basis. We offer personalized remote learning opportunities and in-person training sessions at your location. Learn more about accessibility training.
Our Audit & Remediation Process
Our website accessibility audits are more than an automated scan – because when it comes to accessibility, AI can only get you so far. Our accessibility remediation process includes both automated testing and manual review by trained accessibility professionals and visually impaired testers – real-world users of assistive technology – to rapidly identify, remediate errors, and certify your website as accessible.
- Full-site scan with Accessibility Checker Pro.
- Manual review of header and footer.
- Discuss rapid audit findings and establish remediation priorities.
- Add accessibility statement to your website.
- Auditing and fixing simultaneously each month.
- Real users verify the accessibility of specific journeys.
- Statement of conformance is issued.
- Ongoing monitoring and fixes as need for the life of your website.
Audit & Remediation Plans
Our audit and website accessibility remediation plans allow you to spread out the cost of making your website accessible and accelerate fixes. Unlike traditional audit-then-fix offerings, with these plans, we’ll start making your website accessible right away.
Choose the plan that works best for your budget and timeline. The more auditing and remediation hours in a month, the faster your website will become accessible.
Tier 1
$1,199/month
Billed monthly until canceled.
Minimum 6-month commitment.
- 6 hours of auditing and remediation per month
- 30 min. strategy call each month
- Monthly accessibility report
- Project management dashboard
- 5% discount on custom training for your team
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Tier 2
$2,299/month
Billed monthly until canceled.
Minimum 3-month commitment.
- 12 hours of auditing and remediation per month
- 30 min. strategy call each month
- Monthly accessibility report
- Project management dashboard
- 5% discount on custom training for your team
Tier 3
$4,299/month
Billed monthly until canceled.
Minimum 3-month commitment.
- 24 hours of auditing and remediation per month
- 60 min. strategy call each month
- Monthly accessibility report
- Project management dashboard
- 10% discount on custom training for your team
Tier 4
$7,999/month
Billed monthly until canceled.
Minimum 3-month commitment.
- 48 hours of auditing and remediation per month
- 90 min. strategy call each month
- Monthly accessibility report
- Project management dashboard
- 10% discount on custom training for your team
Not sure which plan to choose?
Website Accessibility Remediation FAQs
Website accessibility remediation is the process of making your website accessible to people with disabilities. This process typically includes changing existing content or website code and adding new content or features intended to make your website easier to use for people with disabilities or who rely on assistive technology, such as screen readers.
On WordPress websites, accessibility remediation can include:
- Fixing or changing completely your WordPress theme.
- Replacing WordPress plugins with more accessible alternatives.
- Changing settings in WordPress plugins.
- Editing content in the WordPress block editor or in your page builder.
An automated accessibility scan with Accessibility Checker, along with at least some manual analysis, is required before remediation can begin. This allows us to gain a clear understanding of the number of pages and problems that need to be addressed. Following the initial scan and analysis, we’ll work with you to come up with a remediation plan based on your organization’s priorities.
During remediation, our team will make content-related fixes directly on your live website. If a code fix is required, we’ll test it on a staging site before making it live. If a fix has design implications, we’ll always check with you for approval before making the fix live on your website.
In order for remediation to occur, we will require full access to your hosting environment, any active and relevant code repositories, and an administrator account on your website. If you want us to prioritize remediation by page traffic, we’ll ask for read access to your analytics account.
Outside of U.S. federal holidays, you will hear from us within 24 hours of purchasing a plan and will get access to your project dashboard at that time. We strive to get access to your website, start auditing, and have a kick-off call to discuss priorities within five business days of plan purchase, however, this can vary based on your availability for calls and how quickly we are given access to everything we need.
The timeframe for remediation will depend upon the number and type of problems detected in our audit, the theme or framework that your WordPress site uses, whether your content team is helping with some fixes, and how many hours you have selected per month in your audit and remediation plan.
The minimum required commitment on our plans (6 months at Tier 1 and 3 months for all other tiers) may be sufficient time to make your website accessible. At that point, you can drop to a monitoring tier or cease work altogether, or you may need to continue beyond the minimum time based on the problems on your website.
In the first month of your plan, following your initial audit, we’ll provide a time estimate until accessible.
Yes. For you to have full site scans and other plugin features necessary for thorough audits, you will need to buy Accessibility Checker at the Professional level or higher. This is an additional annual fee of $144.
Not necessarily. If your website is still effective at driving results for your organization and it only needs a few small fixes, then you should probably keep it. On the other hand, if the results of our rapid audit process show that it would cost more to repair your existing website than to build a new one, then building a new website might be a good idea.
It also comes down to your website’s lifespan, which is typically 3-5 years. So, if your website is already 4 years old, maybe it would be better to explore having Equalize Digital build you a new, fully accessible website.
Yes. Our team has developed, audited, and remediated websites and web applications and has provided accessibility consulting for large universities, government agencies, and enterprise-level clients. We are an approved federal contractor in the United States.
Yes. We’re happy to provide accessibility audits and consulting to other marketing agencies and WordPress theme or plugin developers. We strongly believe in making the internet a more accessible place and love having the opportunity to review and provide recommendations to free and commercial themes and plugins.
Agencies that join our agency partner program can get discounted accessibility services. Contact us for more information.
