Web accessibility auditing
Expert assessment of the accessibility of your website, including compliance with WCAG 2.0 guidelines.
Benefits
- Independent assessment against international standards;
- Gives a prioritised list of issues and recommendations;
- Systematic and thorough, covering all content and functionality;
- Prototypes and templates can be assessed early;
- Inexpensive and quick.
How well does your website measure up for accessibility? Accessibility guidelines can be quite technical and difficult to interpret for the uninitiated. CFIT can help you by explaining exactly where your site fails to meet the guidelines and what you can do about it. We audit against the international standard, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) guidelines from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
So if you want to know exactly how your site performs on accessibility, why not book an audit today.
What do you get?
CFIT’s expert auditors will thoroughly assess your site against all three levels of the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. In addition, we will identify any other issues which are likely to cause difficulties for users with disabilities, including those that are not well covered by WCAG.
The findings will be presented to your project team by a senior CFIT consultant at a half day workshop. The consultant will demonstrate using assistive technologies and the outputs of special analysis tools to illustrate key issues. The emphasis is on showing you not only where your site breaches the accessibility guidelines, but what kind of problems these breaches can cause for users and what steps you can take to avoid them. This will help you to build an understanding of what the guidelines mean in practice and how best to prioritise your efforts towards compliance.
In addition to the presentation, we will deliver a technical report containing a prioritised list of all the audit findings and recommendations, with an executive overview.
What happens next?
The audit will reveal where your website falls short of accessibility and what modifications are required. It will also give you a better understanding of accessibility requirements and how non-conformance can affect users. You may decide to combine the audit with user testing, to give you a complete picture of how accessible your site is and how usable it is in practice.
CFIT can continue to assist you as you work on implementing the suggested improvements, by providing flexible consultancy, support, mentoring or ‘help desk’ facilities according to your needs. This will help you to quickly grow your own in-house expertise in accessibility.
What does it cost?
A standard single site web accessibility audit costs €2,900. This covers a site survey, selection of sample pages for full manual testing, evaluation of all content types, analysis of issues found, report compilation and presentation at a half day meeting. Very large sites or sites with complex functionality may cost more.
As NCBI is a registered charity, we do not charge VAT, so this is the final price.
Case studies involving auditing
How CFIT’s auditing and user testing helped welfare.ie win the eGovernment Accessibility award