What an accessibility audit needs to test
An accessibility audit should answer a more useful question than whether a scanner produced warnings. It should establish where a disabled visitor may be prevented from understanding content, reaching controls, completing tasks or recovering when something goes wrong.
Automated testing is an important first layer because it can inspect large numbers of pages consistently and identify machine-detectable problems. It can reveal issues involving markup, contrast, missing accessible names and other testable patterns. It cannot decide everything.
The W3C is explicit that evaluation tools cannot determine whether a website is accessible on their own. Human testing is needed for areas where context and behaviour matter. Our audit therefore includes manual keyboard and screen reader testing alongside the automated whole-site scan.
Manual WCAG 2.2 audit checks
Keyboard testing is not simply a matter of pressing the Tab key a few times. A tester needs to establish whether interactive controls can be reached, whether focus is visible, whether the order makes sense and whether components can be operated and exited without a mouse. Menus, dialogs, cookie controls, accordions and complex forms are common places for failures to appear.
Screen reader testing checks the information exposed by the page rather than its visual appearance. An input may look correctly labelled while its accessible name is missing. A button may contain an icon that makes sense visually but be announced ambiguously. Heading levels can also affect how somebody moves through a page without scanning it visually.
We also examine issues identified by the automated scan in context. A warning is not automatically a failure, and a passing automated rule is not evidence that the whole experience passes WCAG. That distinction prevents remediation work being built around false positives while more important barriers are missed.
What you receive from the accessibility audit
The £549 fixed-price audit includes an automated scan of the whole site and manual testing. Identified issues are mapped to the relevant WCAG 2.2 criteria and assembled into a prioritised fix plan.
The report is intended to be usable by the people who have to make decisions and the people who have to make changes. A useful finding should make clear what is wrong, where it occurs, the WCAG criterion involved and why the issue matters. The prioritisation then helps separate blockers and serious usability barriers from work that can sensibly follow later.
You also receive a costed remediation plan, so the next stage is based on observed problems rather than an arbitrary allowance. A 30-minute results call is included to go through the report and clarify the findings.
If you need the identified problems corrected, see our accessibility remediation service. Organisations that need ongoing checks after remediation can use accessibility monitoring.
Why auditing representative journeys matters
A website can have accessible individual pages and still contain an unusable customer journey. Problems often emerge when separate components interact. A visitor might be able to open a product page but not select a variation by keyboard, submit a form but not understand the validation error, or start a checkout and become trapped inside an overlay.
For that reason, an audit should consider meaningful paths through the site as well as isolated templates. On a brochure site this might include navigation, contact details and an enquiry form. On an ecommerce site, useful checks extend through product selection, basket behaviour, account controls and checkout where those features exist.
Repeated components deserve particular attention. One inaccessible navigation template, form component or modal can reproduce the same problem across dozens of URLs. Finding the underlying component can therefore be more valuable than recording the same symptom page by page.
Accessibility audit price and next steps
The full Accessibility Audit costs £549 and includes the written report and 30-minute results call. The published audit service is a fixed £549 rather than a price that increases according to the number of failures identified.
After the audit, remediation can be commissioned from the actual findings. This keeps the technical work tied to observed barriers and gives you a documented starting point for future testing.
If you are not ready for a manual audit, our free accessibility checker can identify some automated issues on a page. Treat it as an initial diagnostic rather than a WCAG conformance decision.