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AODA and accessibility compliance

Accessibility obligations are among the few digital deadlines that genuinely don't move. The trap is treating it as a one-time fix — compliance achieved on a Friday starts degrading the next time someone publishes a page.

Audit2 to 3 weeks, fixed price
StandardWCAG 2.1, level per your obligation
Largest costUsually documents, not the site
Talk to us about this What drives the cost
Fixed budgetAgreed before work starts. Scope flexes, the number doesn’t.
No vendor pays usNo commissions, referral fees or markup. Ever.
You own everythingCode, documentation, credentials — throughout, not at the end.
Nearly 20 years2,000+ projects for 500+ organizations, from SOHO to Fortune 1000.

What's included.

Scoped and priced up front. Exclusions written as explicitly as inclusions.

Conformance audit

Against the standard that applies to your organisation type and size, with issues ranked by severity and by effort rather than listed flat.

Remediation

Structural issues first — semantics, focus management, keyboard access, contrast — because they account for most real barriers and most exposure.

Document and PDF remediation

Frequently the largest part of the work and the part scoped last. Often cheaper to replace documents with accessible pages.

Editor training

Most regression comes from content, not code. Four trained publishers prevent more issues than any remediation sprint fixes.

Process and monitoring

Checks in the publishing workflow and periodic re-testing, so the next audit isn't a repeat of this one.

Accessibility statement

Drafted honestly, including known issues, which is what a credible statement looks like.

How we approach it.

In this order, because doing them out of order is how these go wrong.

01

Establish which standard applies

Obligations differ by organisation type, size and jurisdiction. This determines everything downstream and is frequently assumed wrongly.

02

Audit properly, not with a scanner

Automated tools catch roughly a third of issues and produce false positives. Anyone selling full compliance from a scan is overstating it.

03

Fix structure before decoration

Keyboard access, focus, semantics and contrast. Some things are legally urgent and some are cosmetic; conflating them wastes money.

04

Train the publishers

The step that determines whether compliance survives. It's also the cheapest part of the engagement.

Audit
2 to 3 weeks
Fixed price, ranked by severity and effort
Remediation
Varies
Depends entirely on what the audit finds
Most common trigger
A deadline
Or a complaint, or a procurement question

Not sure this is what you need?

Tell us what's actually happening and we'll say which part of this applies — or that a different approach fits better, or that you don't need us yet. That last answer is more common than you'd expect.

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What we work with.

Chosen on fit. We take no commission or referral fee from any of them.

WCAG 2.1 A and AAAODAAccessible Canada ActADA guidanceaxe and WAVENVDA and VoiceOver testingPDF/UAAccessible document conversion

If this shouldn't be a project.

Some of this work never really ends. When that's true, we'll say so rather than selling you a project that restarts in three years.

Continuous ownership

DARWIN

Accessibility maintained as the site changes rather than achieved once and lost. Part of owning the web layer continuously.

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Knowledge and training

LiquidIQ

Where the organisation needs broader documentation and training discipline, not just publisher training.

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About aoda and accessibility

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We won't add you to a sequence or send a proposal you didn't ask for.

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Websites and web applications

Described as a symptom

Meet accessibility rules“AODA obligations with a date attached to them.”Stop rebuilding the website“Redesigned two years ago. Already dated.”

Continuous programs

DARWINThe web and revenue layer, managed monthly.

Tell us what's breaking.

We'll tell you roughly what this costs, how long it takes, and whether it's worth doing at all — including when the honest answer is that you don't need us.

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