Engagements

Four shapes this work takes.

Accessibility engagements tend to fall into four patterns depending on what's driving them — curiosity, a deadline, a build, or a program that has to hold. Scope and investment are set in the first conversation, not off a rate card, but these are the shapes and what each one produces.

Start here — 2 to 4 weeks

Accessibility Baseline

A scoped assessment that answers one question honestly: how exposed are we, and what would it take to fix? The right starting point when nobody can currently answer that with evidence.

  • Automated scan across the full property
  • Manual and assistive-technology testing of key templates and journeys
  • Findings mapped to WCAG 2.1 / 2.2 AA success criteria
  • Executive summary plus a developer-actionable report
  • Prioritized roadmap with effort bands
Deadline-driven — one to three quarters

Conformance Program

For organizations working against a fixed date — an ADA Title II deadline, a settlement, a funder requirement, a contract clause. Built to produce documented, defensible progress on a schedule.

  • Full inventory including documents, portals, and vendor platforms
  • Audit, remediation, and verification in phases
  • Written policy, accessibility statement, and feedback path
  • Procurement language and vendor escalation
  • Staff training and evidence package
Embedded — alongside your team

Remediation Partnership

When you have a capable development team or an incumbent agency and need specialist depth rather than delivery. We specify, pair, and verify; they build.

  • Component-level fix specifications
  • Design system and pattern library review
  • Pull request review and pairing sessions
  • Automated accessibility checks wired into the build
  • Verification pass and closure evidence per finding
Ongoing — monthly or quarterly

Conformance Retainer

The part that determines whether any of the above still holds in a year. Scheduled monitoring, a standing expert channel, and re-verification as the site changes.

  • Scheduled scanning plus periodic manual spot-checks
  • Pre-launch reviews for new templates and campaigns
  • Refreshed conformance documentation and VPAT updates
  • A named expert your team can ask before building, not after
  • Incident support if a complaint or demand letter arrives
How Scope Gets Set

The honest variables.

Three things drive accessibility effort more than anything else, and none of them are page count. How the site was built — a coherent design system can be largely fixed in one cycle; a decade of accumulated templates cannot. How much lives outside your control — vendor portals change the work from engineering to escalation. How many documents there are — a PDF library is frequently larger than the entire website effort.

We'd rather tell you a baseline is all you need right now than sell you a program you can't absorb. If the honest answer is "fix four things and re-check in six months," that's the answer you'll get.

What we won't do

  • Install an overlay widget and call it conformance
  • Hand over scanner output as an audit
  • Write a VPAT that claims more than testing supports
  • Certify compliance — no one can; we document conformance
  • Quietly carve documents and vendor platforms out of scope

Not sure which shape fits?

Most clients don't know before talking to us. Tell us what's prompting the conversation and we'll tell you honestly which one fits — including when it's the smallest.