Website Accessibility Audit
$399 flat. No surprises.
A manual, plain-English audit of your website against WCAG 2.1 Level AA — done by someone who doesn't just know the guidelines, but navigates the web with low vision every day. I'm Michael Perks. Accessibility isn't a compliance checkbox for me; it's how I experience your website.
Why This Matters
More than one in four Canadians has a disability
According to Statistics Canada's most recent survey, over 27% of Canadians aged 15 and up live with at least one disability — vision, hearing, mobility, cognition, dexterity. If your website fails them, you're turning away customers you never even see leave, because a site that can't be used doesn't generate complaints. It generates silence.
The legal direction is just as clear. The Accessible Canada Act and the Accessible British Columbia Act have made web accessibility a formal obligation for a growing set of organizations, and the standard they point to is the same one this audit measures against: WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Businesses that get ahead of it now avoid the cost and panic of a forced retrofit later.
And there's a quieter benefit: accessibility work and search-engine visibility overlap almost completely. Headings, alt text, link clarity, semantic structure — Google's crawler reads your site much the way a screen reader does. Nearly every fix in the report pays twice.
What You Get
A report you can actually act on
No jargon dump, no wall of automated-scanner output. Every issue explained in plain English: what's wrong, where it is, who it affects, and how to fix it.
Contrast measurement, keyboard-only navigation, heading and landmark structure, form labels and error handling, focus visibility, alt text, zoom behaviour, and more — checked manually, page template by page template.
Issues ranked by real-world impact — what locks people out entirely, what makes things harder than they should be, and what's polish. Your developer (or I) can start at the top and work down.
We go through the report together so nothing gets lost in translation. Ask anything — you'll leave knowing exactly what to do next and roughly what it should cost.
Fix the issues — yourself, with your developer, or with me — and I'll re-verify every fixed item at no charge, so you know the work actually landed.
How It Works
Four steps, five business days
Send me your website address. I'll confirm scope and timing the same business day.
Manual review of every page template against WCAG 2.1 AA — keyboard, contrast, structure, forms, and assistive-technology behaviour.
You get the plain-English report within five business days, then we walk through it together.
Fix the issues with whoever you like — I re-check fixed items free within 60 days. Want me to do the fixes? I'll quote it precisely.
Common Questions
Straight answers
What exactly do I get for $399?
A manual audit of your site against WCAG 2.1 Level AA, a plain-English report listing every issue with its location and severity, a prioritized fix list, a 30-minute walkthrough call, and a free re-check of fixed items within 60 days.
Is this an automated scan?
No. Automated tools catch roughly a third of accessibility issues, and the "overlay widgets" sold as one-click compliance often make sites worse for real assistive-technology users. This audit is manual work — keyboard-only navigation, contrast measurement, structure and form review — informed by my own daily experience using the web with low vision.
Do you also fix the issues?
Optionally, yes. The report is written so any competent developer can act on it — including whoever built your site. If you'd like me to implement the fixes, I quote that separately once we both know exactly what's involved. No bundled surprises.
Will this make my site legally compliant?
No audit can guarantee legal compliance, and I'm not a lawyer — anyone who promises otherwise is selling something. What this gives you is a documented, systematic, good-faith effort against the standard Canadian accessibility legislation points to. That's the strongest practical position a small business can hold, and the honest one.
How big a site does $399 cover?
A typical small-business site — up to about 15 page templates. Since most sites reuse the same templates across many URLs, that covers the overwhelming majority of small-business websites completely. Bigger site? The core templates are still $399, and I'll quote anything beyond that before starting.