Discovery
Days 1–7
We confirm the templates in scope, agree what is in and out, and lock the delivery date. Your fee is fixed in writing before you commit to anything.
What an Engagement Costs
One flat fee, fixed in writing before you commit, covering the audit, the signed VPAT/ACR, the fix guides and the follow-up reviews. The number depends on how many unique templates you have, so we work it out together on a 15-minute call. No pitch, and you can end it owing nothing.
Fifteen Minutes, and You Will Know
Bring your site or a description of your product. We count the unique templates, talk about anything behind a login, and you leave with a fee and a delivery date. If an audit is not what you need, we will say so.
Would rather not get on a call? Send the details by email and we will scope it that way instead.
Your ACR on a Date Committed at Signing
The document does not wait on your engineers. We audit, then deliver your signed VPAT/ACR on a date fixed when you sign. Remediation support runs behind it.*
Audit
Days 7–40
Every template evaluated against all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA criteria, by hand, with a keyboard and a screen reader.
Signed VPAT/ACR
Day 45, committed
Your conformance report, signed and ready to hand to procurement. It reports current state, including what does not conform yet. That is what the document is for.
Remediation & Re-issue
Typically to ~Day 75
Fix guides, follow-up reviews, and a re-issued ACR showing what now passes. How fast this phase goes depends on your developers.
Day counts above describe a Standard engagement. The Focused engagement runs the same four phases on a shorter clock (signed ACR day 21); Professional commits day 60. Each of those ACR dates is committed at signing and backed by automatic late-delivery credits if we miss it. The day 75 figure is an estimate, because that phase is your team's.
Engagement Tiers
There are two things to buy here. Quick Check tells you what is wrong on up to five pages; the engagement tiers below it produce the signed VPAT/ACR that procurement asks for. Tiers are scoped by the number of unique screens or page templates, rather than by page count. Find the row that sounds like your product and we can start the call from there.
| Tier | Scope | Deliverables |
|---|---|---|
| Quick Check | Up to 5 pages | Plain-language findings report · signed ACR not included |
| Focused | Up to 5 unique templates | Signed ACR day 21 · up to 2 follow-up reviews |
| Standard | Up to 10 unique templates | Signed ACR day 45 · up to 3 follow-up reviews |
| Professional | Up to 20 unique templates | Signed ACR day 60 · up to 3 follow-up reviews |
| Enterprise | 20+ templates, or an authenticated app | Date committed at signing · up to 5 follow-up reviews |
Need the document sooner? On Standard and above, an expedited engagement commits the signed ACR on day 30 (day 45 on Professional). Same scope, same testing depth; only the schedule compresses. Focused already runs on the short clock, so there is nothing to expedite.
Why We Scope on a Call
The fee follows your template count, and nobody can count it from outside. A store with 300 products on one product template is one template. A smaller site with a dozen bespoke layouts is twelve. Those two engagements cost very different amounts, and guessing from a homepage gets it wrong in both directions.
We would rather give you a real number than a range. A range is not a price. It moves the work of translating it onto you, and it is usually the low end that gets remembered and the high end that gets invoiced. Fifteen minutes produces a figure that is fixed in writing and does not move.
Sometimes the answer is that you should not buy this. If a scoping pass shows your product is smaller than you feared, or that the thing blocking your deal is a questionnaire rather than a conformance report, that is worth ten minutes of your time and none of your money. That conversation cannot happen through a pricing table.
What does not change: the fee is flat, it is agreed before you commit, it covers the conformance report and the follow-up reviews with nothing billed separately, and the delivery date is committed at signing rather than estimated.
Why a Scan Does Not Get You There
Reasonable question, and worth answering plainly: why not just run a free scanner?
Of the 55 WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA success criteria, an automated tool can return a reliable pass or fail on about six. For roughly a third of them it can help, surfacing candidates a person still has to judge. For the rest it has nothing useful to say. When the UK Government Digital Service tested ten tools against a deliberately broken page, the best found 37% of the known failures, and 29% were caught by no tool at all.
The gap is not a matter of the tools improving. It is what the criteria ask. A machine can confirm alt text exists; it cannot tell you whether it describes the image. It can read the DOM order; it cannot tell you whether the reading order makes sense. Focus order, meaningful sequence, whether a label is actually useful, whether a status message is announced at the moment it matters: every one of those is a judgment about whether a person can understand and operate your product.
The fee is not buying a report a tool could have produced. It is buying the 49 criteria a tool cannot decide, tested by hand with a keyboard and a screen reader, and a document that says which is which.
Before You Compare Quotes
Four numbers worth knowing if this is your first accessibility audit. None of them are about us.
About 30 of 55
Criteria a Tool Cannot Decide
WCAG 2.2 has 55 Level A and AA success criteria. Most of them turn on judgement a scanner cannot make, such as whether alt text is correct rather than merely present. Automated testing is where an audit starts, not where it ends.
$100 to $350
Per Page, How Most Bill
Per-page pricing is the common model, so your page count drives your fee. A store with 300 products on one layout is 300 pages under that model. Ask any provider whether they count pages or templates before you compare two quotes.
$500 to $12,500
The Published Range
That is the span of publicly listed prices across the providers on our comparison page, and the conformance document is often billed separately on top. Quotes vary this widely because scope definitions do.
28%
Of Vendors Have One Ready
We checked 107 recognizable software companies for a conformance report a buyer could actually read. Fewer than a third could produce one without a form or a sales call. The full finding is published.
New to this? The buyer’s guide explains what you are actually paying for, why two quotes for the same site can differ tenfold, and the questions worth asking any provider, including us.
Competitor figures read from each provider’s own published pages on 2026-08-04, and re-checked quarterly. Our own figure is not among them: we size an engagement on a fifteen-minute call and fix it in writing before you commit.
What the Engagement Tiers Include
- Initial audit + follow-up reviews of remediated pages, with a re-issued ACR after each (2 on Focused, 3 on Standard and Professional, 5 on Enterprise)
- A VPAT/ACR signed by a named, DHS-certified evaluator (TT-2606-09221)
- Errors & Omissions insurance coverage (subject to policy terms)
- Visual fix guides with annotated screenshots
- VPAT/ACR formatted for publication (reflecting findings as of audit completion date)
- Up to 90 days of post-engagement email support
Quick Check delivers the findings report on its own. The signed VPAT/ACR, the fix guides, and the follow-up reviews arrive with an engagement tier.
Common Questions
- What counts as a “page”?
- A page is any unique screen or template a user can navigate to, including authenticated views, modal flows, and distinct application states. During Discovery, we’ll define the exact scope together.
- What if issues remain after all follow-up reviews?
- Then some findings are still open, and the ACR says so plainly. That is what the format is for. You still hold the written fix guidance for each one, so your team knows what to change. If you want us to re-check the work after that, additional review cycles are quoted separately.
- What do follow-up reviews cover?
- Follow-up reviews re-evaluate only the pages where fixes were applied, not every page from the original audit. After each review, we re-issue an updated ACR reflecting what now passes. Before each follow-up, we ask you to confirm that pages outside the review scope haven’t changed.
- What if scope changes during Discovery?
- If Discovery reveals more pages or complexity than expected, we’ll flag it and present a revised quote before proceeding. You can adjust the scope to fit your budget or move to a different tier.
- How is the engagement fee structured?
- One flat fee for the whole engagement, agreed in writing before you commit to anything, and billed in three milestones: 40% at signing once scope is confirmed, 40% at ACR delivery on the committed date, and 20% at remediation sign-off when you accept the final follow-up review. Billing is by the engagement rather than by the hour, so the number does not move once it is agreed. There are no overages and no separate charge for the conformance report, the fix guides, or the follow-up reviews. We size the fee on a 15-minute call, because the number depends on how many unique templates you have and whether anything sits behind a login.
- What happens if you miss the delivery date?
- The ACR delivery date is committed at signing, and automatic credits apply if we miss it: 10% off the engagement fee for 1 to 5 business days late, 20% for 6 to 10 business days, and 30% for more than 10. If delivery runs more than 10 business days past the committed date, you also have the right to cancel the engagement entirely, owe nothing, and keep all work product produced to that point. Days spent waiting on client-side prerequisites (access, staging credentials, approvals) do not count toward lateness.
- Why do you scope by template instead of by page?
- Because fifty pages built from one template repeat the same structure, and the same structural failures with it. Auditing a few of them tells you what auditing all fifty would. We test every unique template, representative instances of each, and every distinct interactive component. A finding on a template applies to every page built from it, so ten templates can cover a site with thousands of pages.
- What happens if you become unavailable during my engagement?
- Your work product (audit notes, evidence, draft reports) is stored in backed-up, version-controlled systems and stays current throughout the engagement, not assembled at the end. If I become unavailable, you choose: wait with automatic late-delivery credits, receive all completed work and a prorated refund, or I arrange handoff to a qualified DHS Trusted Tester practitioner from my professional network. You are never locked in, and milestone billing means you never pay for work not delivered.
- What if we disagree with a finding?
- Every finding is documented with the specific WCAG criterion, the testing method, and the user impact. If your team believes a finding is incorrect or does not apply, we review the evidence together.
Let’s Work Out What Yours Costs
Fifteen minutes, no pitch, and you can end it owing nothing.
*The ACR delivery date is committed at signing. The ~75-day full-cycle figure is an estimate, not a commitment: remediation is your team’s engineering time, and how fast it goes is up to them.