WCAG 2.1 Accessibility audits

ADA Audit & Remediation Services

Find out what's wrong, fix it, and know it will stay fixed.
Accessibility compliance isn't a one-time checkbox — it's an ongoing responsibility with real legal deadlines and real consequences for getting it wrong. We provide manual, human-led audits of websites and web applications against WCAG 2.1 Level AA, followed by hands-on remediation of the issues we find. No overlay widgets, no automated-scan-only reports, no "certified compliant" badges that don't mean anything.

What we do

Comprehensive WCAG audit. We test your site manually against WCAG 2.1 Level AA success criteria — not just the 30–40% of issues that automated scanners can catch, but the full range: keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, form labeling, focus management, heading structure, color contrast, alternative text, error handling, and everything else the guidelines actually cover. You get a detailed report organized by severity, with specific locations and plain-language explanations of each issue.

Remediation. We fix what we find — in your actual codebase, your CMS templates, your PDFs, your forms. We're not a separate vendor simply handing you a spreadsheet of problems and wishing you luck. The same people who identified the issues do the repair work.

Verification and documentation. After remediation, we re-test to confirm the fixes hold and document the work for your records. If you're a government entity facing a compliance deadline, documentation is essential.

Who this is for

State and local government. The DOJ's ADA Title II rule requires all state and local government websites and web applications to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Compliance deadlines are April 26, 2027 for entities serving populations of 50,000 or more, and April 26, 2028 for smaller entities and special districts. These dates were extended by one year in April 2026; the underlying requirement hasn't changed. Find more detail on our Government Websites page.

Healthcare organizations. The HHS Section 504 rule sets parallel requirements for healthcare providers receiving federal funding, with deadlines in May 2027 and May 2028 depending on organization size. See our Healthcare Websites page.

Businesses. There is no specific deadline for private-sector websites under ADA Title III, but the volume of demand letters and lawsuits over inaccessible websites continues to grow. An audit now is substantially cheaper than responding to one later. See our Business Websites page to learn more.

Why not just run an automated scan?

Automated tools are useful as a first pass, but they can only detect a fraction of WCAG failures — typically around 30–40%. They can tell you an image is missing alt text; they can't tell you whether the alt text that's there actually describes the image. They can flag a missing form label; they can't tell you whether the form is navigable by keyboard or whether error messages make sense to a screen reader user. A clean automated scan doesn't mean a site is compliant — it just means the easiest-to-detect issues aren't present.

The same goes for overlay widgets. Adding a toolbar to your site doesn't make the underlying code accessible, and it provides no legal protection. Multiple courts have ruled against organizations whose defense relied on an overlay product.

About Us

Colors on the Web has provided color-reference tools and accessibility resources since 1998. Our contrast checker is listed as a related resource in W3C’s Understanding WCAG documentation for Success Criterion 1.4.3, Contrast Minimum—a listing it has maintained across multiple versions of the guidance. As W3C notes, inclusion as a related resource does not imply endorsement.

Accessibility audit and remediation services are provided by Gulf Coast Local, a web development agency that currently manages more than 200 WordPress websites. Over several decades, we’ve contributed to thousands of website projects through development, design, production, maintenance, migration, and technical support—from early hand-coded HTML to modern content management systems and component-based development. Our work is also informed by a background in prepress color correction, visual design, and the practical application of WCAG requirements.

We don’t subcontract our audits. Your website is reviewed directly by the same person who developed the accessibility tools and resources on this site. That means you receive clear findings, practical recommendations, and remediation guidance grounded in hands-on web development—not a generic automated report passed between departments.

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