Accessibility Solutions
Most “accessibility solutions” are widgets that bolt onto your site. We build accessibility into the foundation. No widget tax. No compliance debt. No bandage on a broken design.
We don’t install widgets. We build accessibility into every line of code — HTML, CSS, ARIA, and schema — so your site is compliant on day one and stays compliant as it grows.
From our Coppell, TX office serving DFW, North Texas, Houston metro, and remote clients nationwide.
We don’t just scan your site and hand you a report.
We fix the problems, monitor for new issues, and keep you compliant as your business grows. Here’s what’s included in every accessibility solution we provide:
You don’t need to rebuild your website from scratch or pull developers off critical projects.
Our accessibility solutions integrate with your existing workflow, prioritize the fixes that matter most, and deliver WCAG 2.2 AA compliance faster than you think.
Schedule a 15-minute consultation and we’ll show you exactly what it takes to protect your business.
Accessibility requirements aren’t uniform. Healthcare, government, education, e-commerce, and legal each have specific compliance overlays on top of WCAG.
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act applies to federal agencies and any vendor selling to them. State and local government sites fall under DOJ’s Title II final rule (April 2024), requiring WCAG 2.1 AA by 2026 or 2027 depending on entity size. Education institutions receiving federal funding fall under Title II as well.
HIPAA-covered entities and their business associates must comply with WCAG 2.1 AA per HHS OCR guidance. Patient portals require manual audits — automated tools can’t verify clinical workflow accessibility. We build HIPAA-compliant healthcare sites that pass both medical privacy review and WCAG audit. See our HIPAA-compliant website design work.
Law firms are themselves places of public accommodation under ADA Title III. They’re also frequent ADA lawsuit defendants — and a firm with an inaccessible website while defending an ADA case is a media liability. We build legal websites that close that exposure. See law firm SEO and web design for family lawyer.
K-12 districts, colleges, and universities serve students with disabilities under IDEA, Section 504, and ADA Title II/III. Federal Department of Education enforcement has accelerated since 2022. We build education sites with screen-reader-tested course-catalog patterns, accessible PDF rendering for syllabus and policy documents, and audited form submission flows for enrollment.
The DOJ has signaled that Title III enforcement against private businesses will expand. WCAG AA is the floor; building to AAA gives you defense documentation and future-proofs you against the next regulatory shift.
The 2019 Supreme Court Domino’s decision and the surge in e-commerce ADA cases through 2024 mean every online retailer is at risk. We build accessible product pages, checkout flows, account dashboards, and review interfaces that don’t lose conversion to the accessibility “tax.”
You’ve probably seen the offers: install an accessibility widget on your site for $49 a month and become WCAG compliant overnight. Companies like AccessiBe, UserWay, AudioEye, and EqualWeb market exactly that promise.
Here’s the truth: it doesn’t work, and the courts have noticed.
In 2023, AccessiBe agreed to a class-action settlement after the Federal Trade Commission found their AI-accessibility claims misleading. Users with screen readers reported the AccessiBe overlay actually made their experience worse — adding broken focus orders, hijacked keyboard shortcuts, and announcement spam that drowned out the actual content.
That same year, plaintiffs in ADA Title III lawsuits won judgments against sites that had AccessiBe and UserWay overlays installed. The widget didn’t immunize them. Courts ruled the overlay wasn’t sufficient under WCAG.
The DOJ’s April 2024 final rule on web accessibility under Title II of the ADA made it explicit: automated remediation tools don’t satisfy compliance. Manual conformance to WCAG 2.1 Level AA is required for state and local government websites — and the rule signals where Title III enforcement is heading next for private businesses.
If you’ve already installed an overlay, you’re not safe. If you’re considering one, you’d be paying for the privilege of a false sense of security.
We don’t just scan your site and hand you a report.
We fix the problems, monitor for new issues, and keep you compliant as your business grows. Here’s what’s included in every accessibility solution we provide:
A 30-minute call where we learn your business, your industry’s specific compliance requirements, and where you sit on the accessibility journey. Output: a written assessment of what level of compliance you need and what it’ll take to get there.
For existing sites: full automated scan + manual review of 10-20 representative templates + screen-reader walkthrough of critical user flows + cognitive accessibility review.
Output: a prioritized remediation report with severity scoring and effort estimates. For new builds: an accessibility specification — design system requirements, component library guidelines, content authoring standards, and a testing checklist.
For existing sites: code-level remediation, content rewrites, design system updates. Quoted as a fixed-price project based on the audit report. For new builds: implementation with semantic HTML, ARIA layered correctly, color palettes vetted for contrast, focus management built into every interactive component, and content structured for assistive tech consumption.
Pre-launch Rich Results Test, WAVE/aXe verification, NVDA + VoiceOver pass, keyboard-only navigation test. Post-launch monthly automated scans plus quarterly manual review. Annual full audit for compliance renewal.
There are two ways to make a website accessible.
You can build it accessible from the start — using semantic HTML, proper ARIA roles, sufficient color contrast, keyboard-navigable interaction patterns, screen-reader-friendly content structure, and motion-sensitivity considerations baked into every design decision.
Or you can retrofit accessibility onto an existing site — auditing it, remediating issues page by page, rebuilding forms, replacing icon-only buttons, fixing color contrast across hundreds of components, restructuring navigation.
The first approach costs roughly 10x less. Industry research from Deque Systems and the WebAIM Project shows that accessibility considerations integrated at design time add 5-7% to a project budget. Retrofitting an inaccessible site costs 30-50% of a full rebuild.
That math gets worse if you’ve been sued. The average ADA web lawsuit settlement runs $50,000-$250,000, with legal fees adding $30,000-$100,000 even when settling quickly.
We build accessibility into the foundation. The result is a site that’s not just compliant — it’s a site that works for everyone, from screen-reader users to neurodivergent visitors to people on slow connections to people who can only navigate with a keyboard.
That’s the difference between checking a compliance box and actually doing the work.
WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) version 2.2 is the current international standard. It’s built on four principles you can remember as POUR:
Information and interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive (alt text for images, captions for video, sufficient color contrast).
Interface components and navigation must be operable (keyboard accessible, sufficient time, no flashing content).
Information and operation must be understandable (readable text, predictable navigation, error identification).
Content must be robust enough to work with a wide range of user agents and assistive technologies (parseable code, name/role/value).
Within those principles, WCAG has three conformance levels:
In practice, AA is the table-stakes requirement for any business-facing site in 2026. We build to AAA from day one because the marginal cost is low when accessibility is part of the foundation, and the marginal protection against future enforcement changes is high.
Concrete WCAG 2.2 AAA requirements we implement on every build:
We verify each requirement in a four-pass build process: automated scan, manual code review, screen-reader walkthrough, and keyboard-only navigation pass.
WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) version 2.2 is the current international standard. It’s built on four principles you can remember as POUR:
A 30-minute discovery call. We’ll learn about your business, walk through your site, identify the highest-priority accessibility risks, and tell you what a remediation or rebuild would look like.
No commitment. We give you a written summary even if we’re not the right fit.
We’ve answered the most common questions we hear from business owners, marketing directors, and IT teams who are serious about doing this right.
If you don’t see your question here, reach out directly—we’re happy to explain anything in plain language, no jargon.
WCAG-compliant web design means building a website that meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), an international standard developed by the W3C. In practice, it means a site that’s perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust for everyone, including people with disabilities. WCAG has three conformance levels — A, AA, and AAA — with AA being the de-facto industry standard and AAA the highest level.
For state and local government sites: yes, under the DOJ’s April 2024 Title II final rule. For federally funded education institutions: yes, under Section 504 and Title II. For healthcare under HIPAA: yes, per HHS OCR guidance. For private businesses under ADA Title III: not by explicit federal regulation, but Title III lawsuits have been actively decided against private websites since 2017, and most legal counsel treats WCAG AA as the de-facto requirement to defend against suit.
Level A removes severe barriers (alt text, keyboard navigation, captions for live video). Level AA is the industry standard for public-facing sites and what most courts treat as ADA-defensible (color contrast 4.5:1, captions for prerecorded video, headings and labels). Level AAA is the highest conformance level with stricter requirements (color contrast 7:1, sign-language interpretation for prerecorded video, extended audio descriptions). Most businesses target AA; we recommend AAA for any site serving a broad public audience because the marginal cost is low when built right.
Possibly. ADA Title III lawsuits filed against private websites hit 4,000+ in 2024 per Seyfarth Shaw, with restaurants, retailers, financial services, and healthcare providers being the most common targets. Most settle out of court for $25,000-$75,000 plus plaintiff’s legal fees. The risk is higher if your business serves people with disabilities, has a physical location with a web presence, or operates in a regulated industry.
We don’t recommend it. The AccessiBe class-action settlement in 2023 and multiple court rulings since then have shown that overlays don’t satisfy WCAG compliance, and screen-reader users frequently report that overlays make their experience worse. Courts have ruled against sites with overlays installed. The DOJ’s 2024 Title II rule explicitly excluded automated remediation tools from compliance.
A basic audit covering 10-15 templates with automated scanning + manual review runs $2,500-$5,000. A comprehensive audit including screen-reader testing and remediation specification runs $5,000-$15,000 depending on site size and complexity. We provide a fixed-price quote after a free 30-minute discovery call.
Automated tools like aXe, Lighthouse, WAVE, and Pa11y catch about 30% of WCAG issues — the rule-based ones like missing alt text and bad color contrast. Manual testing catches the other 70% — keyboard focus order, screen-reader UX flow, cognitive accessibility, ARIA implementation correctness, and edge cases automated tools can’t reason about. Real WCAG conformance requires both.
Yes. Healthcare sites must satisfy HIPAA + WCAG. Government sites fall under Section 508 (federal) or Title II (state/local) plus WCAG. Education institutions fall under Title II/III. E-commerce sites face higher ADA Title III lawsuit risk because of payment-flow accessibility issues. Each industry has compliance overlays on top of WCAG, and we cover all of them.
For a typical small business site, 6-10 weeks. For e-commerce or larger sites, 10-16 weeks. The accessibility piece doesn’t add timeline when it’s integrated from day one. Retrofitting an existing inaccessible site can take 3-6 months depending on size.
Both. Accessibility remediation is a substantial part of our practice. We start with an audit, prioritize fixes by severity and conversion impact, and remediate in phases. Many clients start with remediation and graduate to a full rebuild once they see the ROI.
Our HQ is in Coppell, TX. We work with clients across the DFW Metroplex (Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, Frisco, Arlington, Irving, Garland, Denton, McKinney, Allen, Richardson, Lewisville, Flower Mound, Carrollton, Cedar Hill, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Mesquite), North Texas (Oak Point, Prosper, Aubrey, Celina, Little Elm), the Houston metro (Katy, Fulshear, Sugar Land), out-of-metro Texas (El Paso, Lubbock), and remote clients nationwide.
We build, we don’t bolt on. AccessiBe is a JavaScript overlay marketed as an accessibility solution. We’re a WordPress + Elementor agency that builds sites accessible from the foundation — semantic HTML, proper ARIA, vetted color systems, keyboard navigation, manual screen-reader testing, and accessibility-aware content.