Accessibility & Compliance That Protects and Includes
Web accessibility isn't just a legal requirement — it's good design. An accessible website serves more users, ranks better in search, and protects your business from legal risk. We audit, remediate and maintain WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across your digital estate.
🛠️ Support & Advanced Tech · one of 50 servicesAccessibility is a legal obligation
Under the Equality Act 2010, UK businesses are required to make reasonable adjustments to ensure their digital services are accessible to disabled users. For public sector organisations, the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018 set an even stricter standard — mandatory WCAG 2.1 AA compliance with published accessibility statements.
Beyond compliance, approximately 1 in 5 people in the UK have a disability. An inaccessible website excludes a significant portion of your potential customers and employees. Accessibility improvements also correlate directly with better SEO performance, improved mobile usability and faster load times — benefits that extend to all users.
- WCAG 2.1 AA audit
- Prioritised remediation report
- Technical remediation
- Accessible component design
- Screen reader testing
- Keyboard navigation testing
- Colour contrast review
- Alt-text audit & rewrite
- GDPR cookie compliance
- ARIA implementation
- Ongoing monitoring
Everything you need for full accessibility compliance
WCAG 2.1 AA Audit
A thorough manual and automated audit of your website against all WCAG 2.1 Level AA success criteria — combining automated tooling with expert manual testing using screen readers, keyboard navigation and assistive technologies.
Prioritised Remediation Report
Every issue found in the audit is documented with its WCAG criterion, impact severity, affected user groups and a clear technical recommendation — prioritised so your development team can tackle the highest-impact issues first.
Technical Remediation
We fix the issues ourselves — rewriting inaccessible HTML, implementing correct ARIA roles, fixing focus management, adding skip links and ensuring all interactive elements are fully keyboard operable and screen reader compatible.
Accessible Component Design
We redesign inaccessible UI components — form fields, modals, carousels, menus and data tables — to meet WCAG requirements without compromising visual design, producing accessible components your team can reuse going forward.
GDPR Cookie Compliance
We implement and configure a compliant cookie consent solution — Cookiebot, OneTrust or CookieYes — ensuring your site meets UK GDPR requirements for cookie consent, with a correctly categorised cookie audit and privacy notice review.
Ongoing Monitoring
Websites change — new content and components can introduce new accessibility issues. Our monitoring service runs regular automated scans and quarterly manual checks to ensure your site maintains WCAG 2.1 AA compliance over time.
Our accessibility process
Automated Scan
We run your site through leading accessibility testing tools — Axe, WAVE and Lighthouse — to identify all automatically detectable WCAG violations across every page template.
Manual Expert Testing
Automated tools catch only 30–40% of accessibility issues. Our specialists manually test every interactive element using keyboard navigation, NVDA, VoiceOver and other screen readers to find the full picture.
Issue Documentation
Every issue is documented in a structured report — WCAG criterion, severity, location, affected users and a clear fix recommendation — giving your team or ours a complete remediation roadmap.
Remediation
We fix issues in priority order — starting with critical barriers that completely prevent access, then significant issues, then minor improvements — testing each fix before moving to the next.
Re-Audit & Verification
After remediation, we re-audit the site to confirm all issues have been resolved correctly and no new issues have been introduced — producing a clean audit report and accessibility statement.
Accessibility Statement
We produce a compliant accessibility statement for your website — required by law for UK public sector organisations and best practice for all — detailing your compliance status and known limitations.
Accessibility & compliance FAQs
Is my business legally required to have an accessible website?+
Under the Equality Act 2010, all UK businesses providing goods and services to the public have a legal duty to make reasonable adjustments to ensure disabled people can access those services — including digital services. Public sector bodies are additionally required to meet WCAG 2.1 AA under the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018. Private sector businesses face increasing scrutiny and litigation risk for inaccessible websites, making compliance a prudent risk management decision as well as a legal obligation.
What is WCAG 2.1 AA and why does the level matter?+
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are organised into three conformance levels: A (minimum), AA (standard) and AAA (enhanced). Level AA is the internationally recognised standard for legal compliance and is what the UK Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations require. Level A addresses only the most basic issues; Level AA covers the wider range of barriers that affect a significant proportion of disabled users. Level AAA is aspirational and not required by any regulation. Our work targets WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the baseline.
How long does an accessibility audit and remediation project take?+
An audit-only project for a typical business website (10–50 page templates) takes 1–2 weeks. A combined audit and remediation project — where we also fix the issues — typically takes 4–8 weeks depending on the number and complexity of issues found. Larger or more complex sites (large e-commerce, enterprise web apps) may take longer. We provide a detailed project timeline at the start of every engagement.
Can automated tools alone make my website accessible?+
No — automated accessibility testing tools identify only approximately 30–40% of WCAG issues. They cannot assess whether alternative text is meaningful, whether reading order makes sense, whether form error messages are helpful, or whether dynamic content is announced correctly to screen reader users. Genuine WCAG compliance requires expert manual testing using real assistive technologies, which is a core part of every audit we conduct.
Do you provide an accessibility statement after the work is complete?+
Yes — all our audit and remediation packages include a compliant accessibility statement for your website. This statement documents your compliance status, any known limitations, the date of the most recent audit and how users can request accessible alternatives or report issues. For public sector clients, the statement meets the exact requirements of the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018.
Accessibility compliance pricing
Pricing depends on site size and complexity — these are indicative ranges for typical projects.
All prices ex-VAT. Final pricing depends on site size and complexity. Contact us for a free accessibility assessment.
Comprehensive WCAG 2.1 AA audit with prioritised remediation report.
- Automated scan (all pages)
- Manual expert testing
- Screen reader testing
- Keyboard navigation audit
- Colour contrast review
- Prioritised issue report
- Accessibility statement draft
Full audit plus technical fixes — achieving WCAG 2.1 AA compliance end to end.
- Full WCAG 2.1 AA audit
- Technical remediation of all issues
- ARIA implementation
- Focus management fixes
- Alt-text rewrite
- GDPR cookie compliance setup
- Re-audit & verification
- Compliance accessibility statement
- Team knowledge transfer
Ongoing compliance monitoring and quarterly manual audits.
- Monthly automated scanning
- Quarterly manual audit
- Issue alerting & reporting
- Remediation of new issues
- Accessibility statement updates
- Regulatory change tracking
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