ACCESSIBILITY ADA COMPLIANCE AGENCY
Accessibility ADA Compliance Agency: Audit, Remediate, Certify
- Manual testing by people with disabilities, not automated scans alone
- Partnered with an ADA compliance consultancy that has advised at the federal level
- Prioritized remediation plan with complexity estimates for every issue
Talk With an Accessibility Expert
Tell us about your goals
Usually responds within 1 business day · No spam, ever
By submitting this form, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
Automated Scans Miss What Real Users Hit First
Scanners flag the wrong things
Automated accessibility tools catch a fraction of WCAG criteria and return false positives that burn developer hours. They cannot judge whether alt text is meaningful, whether a form error is understandable, or whether a keyboard user can finish a task. You get a red dashboard and no path forward.
Demand letters arrive without warning
Most organizations learn their site is inaccessible from a law firm, not from their own testing. At that point the timeline belongs to someone else. A documented audit, remediation plan, and progress record change the conversation.
Fixes break on the next release
Teams remediate a page, ship a new template, and reintroduce the same barriers three sprints later. Without accessibility built into design patterns, component libraries, and QA, compliance decays. One-time cleanups do not hold.
Audit, Prioritize, Remediate, Monitor
Manual and automated audit
Our partner consultancy runs live assessments with real users, including people who navigate by screen reader and keyboard, alongside automated scanning. You receive a full findings report mapped to WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA success criteria, with false positives already removed.
Prioritized remediation roadmap
We rank every issue by user impact, legal exposure, and estimated complexity. The deliverable is a sequenced remediation backlog your developers or ours can work from, plus a VPAT-ready record of what has been fixed and what remains.
Design and code remediation
Our designers and developers fix the issues: alt text, heading structure, color contrast, focus states, keyboard operability, ARIA labeling, form error handling, captions, and skip navigation links. We update the underlying templates and components so fixes persist across the site.
Monitoring and team enablement
You get portal access showing accessibility progress and defensible milestones, plus retesting after releases. We document accessible design patterns and run working sessions with your content and dev teams so new pages ship compliant.
Make Your Website Accessible to Every Visitor
“The O8 team was a pleasure to work with and I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for Drupal Web Solutions.”
“We hit deadlines and came in under budget. Website visits have increased 40% since our launch in December and our conversion rates have tripled!”
Naomi McDonald
PR & Marketing Communications Manager • TLI — University of Minnesota
“I am currently working on a site migration with O8. They are very responsive and do great work. I really enjoy working with them. I even look forward to meetings with the team, because I can discuss issues, work out solutions, and learn new things as well.”
Christina Goodland
Website Manager • OIT, UMN
Why Organizations Choose O8 for ADA Compliance
Federal-level partner expertise
O8 partners with an ADA compliance consultancy that has advised on accessibility at the federal level. Their assessors and our developers work the same findings list, so testing rigor and implementation stay connected.
Real people, not bots
Live assessments use real users with disabilities instead of theoretical scanning tools. That surfaces usability failures automated checkers never report and removes the false positives that waste developer time.
Design and development under one roof
We do not hand you a report and walk away. The same team that audits your site redesigns templates, rewrites markup, and ships the fixes.
Documented, defensible progress
Your client portal tracks remediation milestones over time. When counsel, a procurement team, or a public agency asks what you have done, you have a record rather than a claim.
Experience across regulated sectors
We have built and rebuilt sites for organizations including HelpSystems, Ecumen, Baker University, the University of Minnesota, Consulting Radiologists, MedSource Labs, and Vector Magnetics. Healthcare, higher education, and enterprise software each carry their own accessibility expectations.
Senior staff on your account
Senior-level strategists, designers, and developers plan, facilitate, and implement the changes. You are not handed to a junior account manager after the kickoff call.
More O8 Services
UX Design
Learn more about UX Design →Website Redesign
Learn more about Website Redesign →Content Strategy
Learn more about Content Strategy →Website Translation
Learn more about Website Translation →Accessibility and ADA Compliance Questions
The ADA does not publish a separate web checklist for every organization, so conformance is measured against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, most commonly WCAG 2.1 Level AA. That covers keyboard operability, screen reader compatibility, color contrast, descriptive alt text, captions and subtitles, logical heading structure, skip navigation links, and understandable form errors. The Department of Justice adopted WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the technical standard in its 2024 Title II web accessibility rule.
No. Overlays sit on top of existing markup and cannot repair the underlying structure a screen reader depends on. They also fail to address content issues such as meaningless alt text, missing captions, and unclear error messaging. Real conformance requires fixing the code, templates, and content.
Audit timelines depend on the number of unique templates, transactional flows, and third-party components on your site, not raw page count. Remediation runs on the prioritized backlog we deliver, so high-impact barriers get fixed first while lower-severity items move into your normal release cycle. We scope both after reviewing your site and technology stack.
We scope pricing after an assessment of your site, platform, and template inventory, because a ten-template marketing site and a gated portal with authenticated workflows require very different levels of testing and remediation. There is no standard package price we can quote before that review. Talk with an advisor and we will define scope, sequence, and cost together.
Yes. New templates, campaign landing pages, and third-party embeds are the most common way sites fall back out of conformance. We retest after releases, document accessible design patterns for your team, and keep the progress record in your portal current.
What Is an Accessibility ADA Compliance Agency?
An accessibility ADA compliance agency audits, remediates, and monitors a website so it meets the Americans with Disabilities Act expectations and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, most often WCAG 2.1 Level AA. The work spans three activities: testing the site with automated tools and with real users who navigate by screen reader or keyboard, fixing the design and code that create barriers, and keeping the site conformant as new pages and templates ship. A report alone is not compliance. Remediation is where conformance actually happens.
O8 approaches accessibility as part of the same discipline that produces usable, fast, conversion-ready sites. Many of the barriers a screen reader user hits are the same structural problems that hurt every other visitor: unclear headings, unlabeled form fields, low-contrast text, and navigation that breaks under a keyboard. That is why our accessibility work sits alongside our Web Design & Development Services rather than in a separate silo.
When Does an Organization Need an Accessibility ADA Compliance Agency?
The most common trigger is a demand letter or a lawsuit threat, but waiting for one is the expensive path. Organizations also need help when they sell into government, healthcare, or higher education and are asked for a VPAT or an accessibility conformance report during procurement. Public entities have a firmer deadline: the Department of Justice adopted WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the technical standard for state and local government web content in its 2024 Title II rule, with compliance dates phased by entity size.
A third trigger is a platform change. If you are already planning a rebuild, folding accessibility into that project costs far less than retrofitting later, which is why accessibility requirements belong in the discovery phase of a Website Redesign Agency engagement rather than in a punch list after launch.
What a Good Accessibility Engagement Looks Like
A good engagement starts with a full manual and automated audit, produces a prioritized remediation plan, then implements fixes and monitors for regressions. Automated scanning is fast and catches a real subset of issues, but it cannot evaluate whether alt text is meaningful, whether focus order follows a logical path, or whether a multi-step form can actually be completed without a mouse. Our partner consultancy, which has advised on accessibility at the federal level, runs live assessments with real users rather than relying on theoretical tools. We work with their assessors to exclude false positives, catalog genuine usability failures, and complete remediation.
Automated Scanning vs. Manual Plus Automated Testing
| Factor | Automated scanning only | O8 manual + automated approach |
|---|---|---|
| WCAG coverage | Machine-detectable criteria only | Machine-detectable plus human judgment criteria |
| False positives | Common, and left for your team to sort | Filtered out before the report reaches you |
| Task-level usability | Not evaluated | Tested by real screen reader and keyboard users |
| Output | Issue dashboard | Prioritized backlog with complexity estimates |
| Remediation | Your responsibility | Implemented by O8 designers and developers |
| Progress record | None | Client portal with defensible milestones |
What We Look For in an Audit
Our audit covers the elements that most often block visitors with low vision, blindness, color blindness, hearing impairment, limited mobility, and cognitive or intellectual disabilities. The list below is a high-level view, not an exhaustive one.
- Alternative image text that describes purpose, not just file contents, so screen readers convey meaning.
- Closed captioning and subtitles on video, plus alternative text for embedded iFrames and players.
- Screen reader compatibility, including logical reading order, correct heading hierarchy, landmark regions, and accurate ARIA labeling.
- Keyboard accessibility so links, buttons, menus, and input fields respond to tab, arrow, and enter keys with a visible focus indicator.
- Color allocation and contrast that meets ratio requirements and never uses color alone to convey information.
- Skip navigation links that let keyboard-only users bypass repeated menus and reach main content.
- Form labeling and error handling that identifies fields programmatically and explains errors in text.
Accessibility Is a Growth Lever, Not Only a Risk Control
Legal exposure gets accessibility funded, but conversion is what keeps it funded. Clear labels, predictable navigation, readable contrast, and forms that explain their own errors reduce friction for every visitor, including the ones evaluating you across a long, multi-stakeholder buying cycle. That overlap is why we treat accessibility findings as inputs to information architecture and interaction design work in our UX Design Agency practice, and why accessible component libraries are a standard requirement in a B2B Web Design Agency build.
Platform Work and Ongoing Conformance
Most conformance regressions come from templates and plugins rather than from individual pages. If your site runs on WordPress, we harden themes, blocks, and reusable patterns so authors cannot easily publish inaccessible content, work handled by our Custom WordPress Development Agency team. We then document accessible authoring guidance, retest after releases, and keep the milestone record in your portal current.
How Much Does an Accessibility ADA Compliance Engagement Cost?
We scope pricing after reviewing your site, platform, and template inventory. Cost is driven by the number of unique templates and transactional flows, the complexity of third-party components and embedded media, whether the site includes authenticated areas, and how much remediation your internal developers will handle versus our team. A brochure site with a dozen templates and a gated application portal are different projects, so quoting a package price before that review would be a guess. Book a conversation and we will define the audit scope, the remediation sequence, and the investment together.
Who We Work With
O8 has designed and rebuilt websites for organizations including HelpSystems, Ecumen, Baker University, the University of Minnesota, Consulting Radiologists, MedSource Labs, and Vector Magnetics. Healthcare, higher education, and enterprise software each bring their own accessibility expectations, procurement questions, and content governance realities. Senior strategists, designers, and developers plan and implement the work, and our clients rate us 4.9 on Clutch.
