Section 508 & WCAG Accessibility Compliance Audits
Universal design principles applied across public digital assets, bringing them into alignment with state and federal web accessibility mandates under Section 508 and WCAG.
Public digital assets carry a legal obligation most commercial sites don't: Section 508 and WCAG compliance isn't optional. We audit and remediate government websites, portals, and applications against those standards, combining automated scanning with manual testing using screen readers and keyboard-only navigation, and deliver a prioritized remediation plan alongside the fixes themselves.
What this covers
Full Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA compliance audits, manual assistive-technology testing (screen readers, keyboard navigation), remediation of existing digital assets, and universal design implementation for new builds so compliance is designed in rather than retrofitted.
Why automated scanning is only the starting point
An automated scanner catches a meaningful share of issues, and it catches the easy ones. It cannot tell you whether alternative text is actually useful, whether a focus order makes sense to someone who cannot see the layout, or whether an error message reaches a screen reader at the moment it matters. We run the scan because it is efficient, then test the paths a real person has to complete, because that is where the failures that keep people out tend to live.
A remediation plan your team can execute
An audit that hands over a list of violations sorted by severity is easy to produce and hard to act on. We group findings by the underlying cause, so one component fix closes many reported issues at once, and we sequence the work by user impact and effort. The deliverable is a plan your developers can work through in order, with enough detail on each item that it does not need to be re-investigated before it can be fixed.
Manual testing, not just automated scans
A prioritized, actionable remediation plan
Universal design built in from the start on new work
Findings grouped by cause, not just by page
Universal design principles applied across public digital assets, bringing them into alignment with state and federal web accessibility mandates under Section 508 and WCAG.
Section 508 Compliance Audits
Full audits against Section 508 standards for federal and state digital assets, with documented findings.
WCAG 2.1 AA Testing
Comprehensive testing against WCAG 2.1 AA success criteria, the benchmark most state and federal mandates reference.
Assistive Technology Testing
Manual testing with screen readers and keyboard-only navigation to catch issues automated scanners miss.
Prioritized Remediation Plans
Findings ranked by legal risk and user impact, with a roadmap your team can execute against.
Remediation Implementation
We don't just report issues, we fix them: markup, color contrast, focus order, and form labeling corrections included.
Universal Design for New Builds
Accessibility built into the component library and design system from the first sprint, not audited in after launch.
We audit against Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA criteria the same way a reviewer would: with assistive technology, not just an automated scanner, and we hand over a remediation plan your team can actually execute against.
