Technical accessibility information and services, not legal advice.
The value of an accessibility audit is not a longer list of automated warnings. It is a usable explanation of where people may be blocked, which patterns create those barriers, and what the organization should address first.
What the $2,500 starting scope is for
Bright Bridge's website accessibility audit starts at $2,500. The exact scope is established before work begins because a five-page informational site and a large application do not require the same review. The written scope should identify the pages, templates, components, documents, and user tasks included.
Automated checks are one input
Automated tools are useful for repeatable checks such as missing programmatic labels, some contrast failures, invalid relationships, and certain markup problems. W3C notes that evaluation tools can assist with accessibility evaluation, but they cannot determine accessibility on their own. Human judgment is required.
Hands-on review reveals task barriers
- Keyboard navigation: whether interactive controls can be reached, operated, and understood without a mouse.
- Focus behavior: whether focus is visible, moves logically, and returns to a sensible place after dialogs or menus close.
- Names and instructions: whether controls communicate their purpose and errors explain how to recover.
- Page structure: whether headings, landmarks, lists, tables, and reading order convey the intended relationships.
- Representative workflows: whether a visitor can complete important tasks such as navigation, search, forms, or account actions.
A useful finding includes context
A bare rule number is rarely enough for a team to act. A useful finding identifies the affected page or component, describes what happens, explains who may be affected, maps the issue to the relevant success criterion, and offers a practical remediation direction. Repeated component defects should be grouped so teams can fix the system instead of treating every occurrence as unrelated.
Priorities should reflect impact and reach
Prioritization considers whether a barrier blocks an essential task, how often the affected pattern appears, and whether one component fix can improve many pages. Severity is an engineering and planning tool, not a legal verdict.
What an audit does not promise
An audit is a time-bounded review of an agreed scope. It cannot guarantee legal compliance, prevent claims, cover future content changes, or prove that no barrier exists anywhere. Accessibility also changes as content, dependencies, integrations, and workflows change.
A useful audit turns accessibility requirements into a prioritized engineering plan. It does not turn technical work into a legal guarantee.
