Bring Your Website Into Compliance
Over the past two 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 web sites that cannot be used by people of all abilities.
Equalize Digital offers rapid accessibility audits that help you determine, as quickly as possible, what accessibility problems exist on your website. We offer multiple remediation plans to improve the accessibility of your website in a way that most makes sense for your organizational goals, timeline, and budget.
Our team of accessibility experts can help you to eliminate barriers on your existing website and ensure all people have equal access to your content on the web.
Quick Benefits
- Reach everyone in your audience.
- Ensure you’re in compliance with all legal requirements and international best practices.
- Boost your search engine ranking and enhance search engine optimization efforts.
- Help make the internet a better place and improve your brand reputation.
Why Equalize Digital
Our goal is to help you have a fully accessible website, one that conforms with ADA, Section 508, and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 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 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 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? Contact us to learn more.
Accessibility Remediation FAQs
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.
