Web Accessibility & ADA Compliance, Engineered to Hold Up

Web accessibility compliance means your website, app and digital documents can be used by people with disabilities, measured against a recognised standard. In practice that standard is WCAG 2.2 Level AA, which laws like the ADA, Section 508, EN 301 549 and the European Accessibility Act all point to. Compliance is verified through audit, remediation and testing with real assistive technology.

In the United States, courts and the Department of Justice have repeatedly treated business and government websites as places of public accommodation under the ADA, and use WCAG as the benchmark. Most US-facing businesses therefore carry real legal exposure if their site is inaccessible. We are not a law firm, so we recommend confirming your specific obligations with counsel, but we can give you an evidence-based picture of where your site stands today.

No. Overlay widgets that bolt a toolbar onto an existing site do not fix the underlying code, and they have not reliably protected organisations from accessibility lawsuits. Durable compliance comes from auditing and remediating the actual HTML, design, content and interactions. That is the approach we take, with a documented audit trail you can defend.

We work to WCAG 2.2 Level AA as the technical baseline and map it to the regulations that apply to you: the ADA, Section 508 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act in the US, EN 301 549 and the European Accessibility Act in the EU, AODA in Ontario, and state-level statutes such as the California Unruh Act and New York Human Rights laws.

You receive a prioritised report of every conformance failure mapped to its WCAG success criterion, the severity and user impact of each issue, screenshots and code-level detail, and a remediation roadmap. Where you need a formal Voluntary Product Accessibility Template or Accessibility Conformance Report for procurement, we produce that too.

Both. Our engineers remediate the front-end code, design and content directly, then re-test to confirm each issue is closed. Because the same teams that audit also build and maintain sites across WordPress, Drupal, Laravel and modern JavaScript frameworks, fixes are implemented correctly rather than patched superficially.

We combine automated scanning to catch issues at scale with manual expert review and testing using real assistive technology, including screen readers such as NVDA, JAWS and VoiceOver, keyboard-only navigation and zoom. Automated tools alone catch only a fraction of WCAG criteria, so the manual layer is where genuine compliance is established.

Yes. Accessibility obligations extend to PDFs, forms, presentations and other documents, especially under Section 508. We remediate document structure, tags, reading order and alternative text so they work with assistive technology alongside your website.

Cost depends on the size of your site, the number of unique templates and the depth of the failures found in the audit. We do not publish fixed packages because that would mean guessing at your scope. Instead we scope the work in a free Discovery call against your actual properties and give you a defined, fixed estimate before any work begins.

A focused marketing site can often be audited and remediated within a few weeks, while large multi-template platforms and applications run longer and are phased by risk. After the audit we give you a timeline tied to your specific templates and components rather than a generic promise.

Yes. Accessibility is not a one-time fix because every content update and release can introduce new barriers. We offer ongoing monitoring and periodic re-auditing so your site stays conformant as it changes, with a clear record of your compliance posture over time.

The opposite. Accessible markup, semantic structure, descriptive alternative text and clean keyboard navigation reinforce the same signals search engines and Core Web Vitals reward. Done properly, accessibility remediation tends to improve discoverability and usability for every visitor, not only those using assistive technology.

AddWeb is a US-registered, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified engineering partner with a 13-year track record and 98% client retention. We remediate real code rather than selling a widget, we hold an Acquia partnership and a long Drupal contribution history on a platform built around accessibility, and we give you a defensible audit trail. You get an outcome you can stand behind, not a badge.

Accessible, well-structured content is also more legible to AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. The same semantic markup and clear information hierarchy that help assistive technology help these systems understand and quote your site accurately, so accessibility work directly supports your visibility in AI-driven search.