Web accessibility & ADA defence
Accessible websites. Defensible compliance.
Whether a demand letter just landed in your inbox or you want to make sure one never does — ADA Mitigation audits your site, fixes it in the code, keeps it conformant, and defends you if a claim is filed.
One team, four disciplines: certified auditors, front-end engineers, assistive-technology testers and in-house attorneys — from the first scan to the final settlement.
Is your website WCAG 2.2 and ADA compliant?
Send us your address and we will run a free first-pass review across your key templates — automated checks plus a manual spot-check by a specialist. You get a plain-English summary, no obligation.
Standards we work to
- WCAG 2.2 Level A & AA
- ADA Title II & Title III
- Section 508 & VPAT 2.5
- Section 504 (HHS)
- EN 301 549 / European Accessibility Act
- AODA
The exposure is real
Digital accessibility litigation is now a volume business
A small, coordinated plaintiff bar files thousands of near-identical complaints every year. Most defendants are not household names — they are ordinary businesses with an inaccessible checkout.
digital accessibility lawsuits filed in the United States in 2025
of those filings targeted e-commerce websites
of federal cases named a company that had already been sued before
of sued websites already had an accessibility overlay widget installed
Figures compiled from published 2025–2026 litigation trackers. See the sources on our legal defence page.
Why it is worth doing properly
An accessible site protects you and grows the business
Conformance is the legal floor. Done well, the same work removes friction for every visitor — which is why accessible sites tend to convert better and rank better.
Take the target off your back
Our risk-mitigation phase closes the barriers that serial filers screen for first: keyboard traps, unlabelled controls, inaccessible forms and modal dialogs. It is the fastest way to stop being an easy target.
See how audits workReach WCAG 2.2 AA conformance
Full conformance across your templates, components and documents — verified with screen readers, magnification and voice control, not just an automated scanner. You receive an Accessibility Conformance Report you can hand to procurement or opposing counsel.
See how remediation worksServe a market you are missing
More than one in four US adults lives with a disability. Accessible markup also gives search engines cleaner structure, captions and alt text — the same fixes that unblock a screen-reader user help everyone else find you.
How we workFull-service accessibility
Everything from the first scan to the courtroom
Most vendors stop at a PDF of findings. Most law firms cannot read your code. We do both, which is the only way a remediation plan and a settlement obligation ever line up.
Audits & testing
Automated coverage across every template, then manual expert review and assistive-technology testing against all 56 WCAG 2.2 A/AA success criteria.
Audits & testingRemediation
We fix it in your code — templates, components, design system, PDFs — or hand your developers precise, reviewed patches. No overlay, no script tag.
RemediationOngoing monitoring
Sites regress. Scheduled scans, release-gate checks in your CI pipeline and a quarterly human review keep conformance from quietly decaying.
MonitoringLegal defence
Our in-house attorneys answer demand letters, defend filed complaints, and negotiate settlement terms your engineering team can actually deliver.
Legal defenceA word about widgets
An overlay is not a defence
Accessibility overlays — the one-line script that promises instant compliance — are marketed as legal protection. The litigation record does not support that claim: roughly 23% of websites sued in 2025 had an overlay installed, and monthly filings against overlay-equipped sites rose through the year. Complaints routinely cite barriers the widget never touched, because the barriers live in the underlying markup.
Worse, some overlays interfere with the assistive technology a visitor already uses, which is why a number of screen-reader users actively avoid sites that run them.
How we fix things insteadWhat a scanner alone will not catch
- Alt text that exists but describes nothing useful
- A focus order that jumps around the page
- A custom dropdown that a screen reader announces as plain text
- A modal that never returns focus when it closes
- Error messages that appear visually but are never announced
- Video without captions, or captions that are auto-generated nonsense
Automated tools reliably detect only a minority of WCAG failures. The rest need a human and a screen reader — which is what our audits provide.
How an engagement runs
Four phases, no surprises
You can enter at any phase. If you are holding a demand letter, we usually run phases 1 and 4 in parallel from day one.
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Free scan
A first-pass review of your key templates and a plain-English summary of what a plaintiff’s expert would find. No cost, no obligation.
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Audit & risk assessment
Full WCAG 2.2 A/AA audit with assistive-technology testing, a prioritised issue register, an Accessibility Conformance Report and a remediation roadmap with effort estimates.
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Remediation sprints
We fix the highest-risk barriers first, then work down the register — in your repository or ours — and retest every fix before it ships.
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Monitoring & legal readiness
Continuous scanning, CI release gates, a published accessibility statement and a maintained evidence file, so you can answer a claim with documentation instead of promises.
Regulatory calendar
Dates that already have your name on them
Private ADA litigation runs continuously and needs no deadline. These are the fixed regulatory dates on top of it.
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28 June 2025
European Accessibility Act in force
Applies EU-wide to e-commerce, banking, e-books, transport information, electronic communications and more, against EN 301 549 (currently WCAG 2.1 AA; an updated version referencing WCAG 2.2 is expected). Microenterprises under 10 staff and €2m turnover are exempt for services only. Enforcement has begun, with the first suits filed in France in November 2025.
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11 May 2026
HHS Section 504 rule
Recipients of Department of Health and Human Services funding must make their web content and mobile apps conform to WCAG 2.1 Level AA.
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26 April 2027
ADA Title II — larger public entities
State and local government entities serving 50,000 people or more. The Department of Justice extended the original 2026 date by interim final rule in April 2026 — the standard itself did not change.
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26 April 2028
ADA Title II — smaller entities
Public entities serving fewer than 50,000 people, and special district governments.
Title III has no deadline — and never had one
If you are a private business open to the public, no rule is pending that will tell you when to start. Courts have been reading the ADA to cover websites for years, and plaintiffs file accordingly. Waiting for a regulation is not a strategy.
Straight answers
Frequently asked questions
Does the ADA really apply to my website?
For a business open to the public in the United States, assume yes. US courts have consistently allowed Title III claims over inaccessible websites, and the Department of Justice has taken the position that the ADA applies to the web goods and services of covered entities. Circuits differ on the detail — particularly on whether a website must connect to a physical location — but that argument is a defence to litigate, not a reason to skip the work.
Is WCAG 2.2 actually required by law?
It depends who you are. The DOJ Title II rule and the HHS Section 504 rule name WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the technical standard for the entities they cover. For private businesses under Title III there is no codified technical standard — but WCAG is what plaintiffs’ experts test against, what settlement agreements reference, and what courts have accepted. We audit against WCAG 2.2 Level AA because it is a superset of 2.1 and closes gaps that current litigation targets.
We installed an accessibility widget. Are we covered?
No. Around 23% of websites sued in 2025 had one installed. Overlays cannot fix semantics, focus management, or a component that was built wrong — and courts have not treated their presence as a defence. Keep it if you like, but do not count it as compliance.
A demand letter just arrived. What should we do first?
Three things, in this order: do not reply on your own; do not quietly delete the page complained about (preserve everything, including analytics and deploy logs); and get technical and legal eyes on it the same week. Deadlines in these letters are usually shorter than they need to be, but the evidence question is real. Use our urgent intake and you will speak to an attorney and an auditor together.
How long does a full audit take?
For a typical marketing site plus a transactional flow, two to three weeks from kickoff to the delivered report. Large platforms with many distinct templates run four to six. The free scan comes back within two business days.
What does this cost?
Audits are quoted from template count and flow complexity, remediation from the issue register that the audit produces — so you see the number before you commit to the work. Monitoring is a flat annual subscription. Legal matters are handled on an engagement basis. We do not sell perpetual licences for a widget.
Do you work outside the United States?
Yes. We audit against EN 301 549 for European Accessibility Act obligations and against AODA for Ontario, and many clients need both a US and an EU answer from the same audit. Our legal services are limited to the jurisdictions in which our attorneys are admitted; where a matter falls outside them we work alongside your local counsel.
Find out where you stand — this week
Send us one address. We will tell you what a plaintiff’s expert would find on it, in plain language, at no cost. If there is nothing to worry about, we will say so.