Uncover more accessibility issues with Expert Audits

No matter your industry or company size, you can’t afford to ignore your website’s accessibility. It isn’t just the right thing to do, or a way to protect your organization from the risk of legal action. It’s also good business.

According to the Global Economics of Disability 2020 report, people with disabilities control $1.9 trillion in disposable income, globally. That number reaches over $10 trillion when their friends and family are included.

By designing for accessibility, you can make your website and digital experiences work better for everyone.

When it comes to larger websites, it’s more efficient to select the most-visited pages and most-used page templates. For example, auditing a product page template allows us to identify accessibility issues on a page type, instead of auditing each individual product page.

In most cases, we’ll select the home page, any pages with contact or location information, the high-traffic user flows on your site, any templated pages, and any content behind login screens or paywalls.

Accessibility laws — such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, or the Unruh Civil Rights Act (CA) — do not explicitly require businesses to conduct accessibility audits.

However, web accessibility consultants can identify and help fix many of the accessibility issues that can lead to legal claims.

The cost of web accessibility depends on a number of factors, including the number of pages on your website, how much content is on each page, the complexity of accessibility issues on your website, and whether you use a custom, automated, or combined approach to accessibility testing and fixes.

At AudioEye, our Digital Accessibility Platform helps keep the cost of expert audits down — automatically fixing many common accessibility issues while freeing our expert human testers to focus on your most important pages and complex accessibility issues

In 2015, the International Association of Accessibility Professionals(opens in a new tab) (IAAP) created several certification programs for experts in the accessibility space.

People who earn these certifications can demonstrate their knowledge of accessible design practices, international web accessibility laws, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines(opens in a new tab) (WCAG) — a widely used set of web standards focused on accessibility.

At AudioEye, our team of certified accessibility experts works with over 80 members of the disability community to help shape our product roadmap and test customer websites using a variety of assistive technologies (AT).