Accessibility audit

A website that works perfectly for you can be a wall for some of your visitors. You only notice it by the effects:

• The European Accessibility Act has applied since June 2025, and you don't know whether your site complies.

• A customer reports they can't complete your form or checkout with a keyboard or a screen reader.

• A free online checker lists hundreds of errors, and you don't know where to start.

• You once had an audit on a handful of pages. Nobody knows how the rest of your site is doing.

• After every release or new page, new errors creep back in.

Accessibility is rarely a matter of one button. It lives in your templates, your components and your content. That's where an accessibility audit starts.

You know where you stand.
For your entire site, you see per WCAG level which share of your pages passes, and what's missing.

You reach more customers.
People who can't use your site don't buy and don't get in touch. An accessible site works better for everyone: how to reach a bigger customer base.

You reduce the risk.
You can show you're working towards the legal requirements, and you have the basis for your accessibility statement.

You fix what matters most first.
You get a roadmap in phases, with the rating you reach after each phase once those changes are live. One change in a template often fixes hundreds of errors at once.

One partner, from scan to fix.
No more back and forth between an audit agency and your developers. The team that finds the issues can also fix them.

For more and more organisations, yes. Since 28 June 2025, the European Accessibility Act applies to many products and services in the EU, such as online shops, banking, transport, e-books and telecoms. EU countries, including Belgium and the Netherlands, have turned it into national law. Public-sector bodies have been covered for longer by a separate EU directive for public-sector websites.

Both point to the European standard EN 301 549, which in turn points to WCAG level AA for websites. Until recently that was WCAG 2.1. Since September 2026, the latest version of the standard points to WCAG 2.2. Which level you need depends on your sector and your market.

We're not lawyers. What we do: we show exactly where your site stands against WCAG, and we fix it.

We don't scan a sample of a few pages. We scan your entire website, based on your sitemap.

• Tested against WCAG 2.1, at level AA by default. Level A or AAA is possible too. We use the rules of axe-core and HTML_CodeSniffer, two established open-source testing engines.

• The way your visitors see your site. We also test your pages behind the cookie banner, so the results are right.

• A PDF report. Per level, you see which share of your pages passes: a page passes when the scan found no errors at that level. You also get a rating as a percentage, as an indication.

• Who you keep out. Per group, you see which WCAG criteria and how many pages are affected: people with visual, hearing, motor or cognitive disabilities. For voice control and for people sensitive to flashes or motion, a scan can measure little. That's where the manual test helps.

• Tasks instead of loose errors. Errors are bundled and grouped, with an estimate of the work. So you see where one change fixes the most.

• A roadmap in phases. Each phase clears a whole WCAG criterion. So the rating after each phase isn't an estimate: it's what a new scan shows once that phase is live. You choose: quick wins first, or the biggest jumps first. The end result is the same.

• History. Every scan is kept, so you see how things evolve.

An automated scan only covers part of WCAG. A high rating is necessary, but not enough to claim your site complies. What tools can't see, we test ourselves, with a keyboard and a screen reader:

• Can you get everywhere without a mouse, and can you see where the focus is?

• Do the alt texts match what's in the image?

• Are forms and error messages clear to someone who has them read out?

The manual test is more work. So we agree together which pages and parts it covers.

1. Free quickscan. We scan your site and show you in the intake where you stand.

2. WCAG scan of your entire site.

3. Manual test, if you want one.

4. Report and roadmap. We go through the phases together: in what order, what they cost and which rating they bring.

5. Fixing in phases. If we fix it, we work phase by phase: change, go live, scan again. The number of phases depends on the number of issues. After each phase you see the rating go up, to 90 to 100%.

6. Rather do it yourself? Then your team gets the roadmap. A new scan is always possible.

An accessible site doesn't stay accessible on its own. Every new page, every video and every release can bring in an error.

With monitoring, we scan your site again at set moments and track the history. So an error doesn't stay up for months.

We also take on your accessibility statement: we write it with the results of the audit and keep it up to date. Or we guide your team, if you'd rather write it yourselves.

Monitoring and the accessibility statement are part of Accelerate, our service to keep improving your platform after launch.

Every site is different, but we come across these problems in almost every accessibility audit:

• Too little contrast. Text that's hard to read against its background.

• Headings in the wrong order. Screen reader users lose the structure of the page.

• Missing landmarks. Header, navigation, content and footer aren't marked up, so you can't jump straight to the content.

• Video without support. No captions, or a player you can't operate with a keyboard.

• Form fields without a label. A screen reader doesn't say what to fill in.

• Keyboard navigation. Buttons and links you can't reach, or a focus you can't see.

Most of them live in a template or a component. Fix it once, better everywhere.

That depends on the size of your site and on whether you want a manual test. Start with the free quickscan. Then you know where you stand, and you get a tailored proposal.