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WCAG Accessibility Audits, Remediation, & Consulting

Your WordPress accessibility team. Automated testing, rapid audits, remediation, and consulting designed to make WooCommerce accessibility easy.

Pricing varies based on plans and services. Monthly and non-recurring options available.


Equalize Digital provides tailored solutions designed to help WooCommerce teams measure and manage their accessibility with confidence. With rapidly accelerating consumer demand and intensifying legal pressures around accessibility globally, now is the time to start making your WooCommerce website more accessible.

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Accessibility Services

How Equalize Digital helps WooCommerce websites become more accessible:

Equalize Digital’s accessibility services allow e-commerce businesses to achieve accessibility at a pace that makes sense for their organization and budget. After remediation, Equalize Digital will certify your website as accessible and provide ongoing monitoring to ensure continued compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) as required by accessibility laws worldwide.

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Equalize Digital’s Approach

Equalize Digital’s process includes both automated testing and manual review by trained accessibility professionals and visually impaired testers – real-world users of assistive technology – with the goal of rapidly identifying and remediating errors, and certifying your website, shop, or WordPress plugin as accessible.

Training is central to every service, so you and your team will understand how to keep your e-commerce store accessible over time. Equalize Digital hosts regular accessibility webinars through the WordPress Accessibility Meetup and offers self-paced, online training courses in VoiceOver Screen Reader Testing and NVDA Screen Reader Testing

Benefits of Accessibility

Reach Everyone In Your Audience

More than 1 billion people in the world and 1 in 4 U.S. adults have a disability. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, disabled Americans spend more than $200 billion every year on discretionary purchases. The more accessible your shop is, the easier it is for everyone to use — that means lower bounce rates and higher conversions.

Mitigate the Risk of Lawsuits and Fines

Across America, Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits resulting from inaccessible websites are on the rise. The European Accessibility Act requires all e-commerce stores with €2 Million in revenue or more than 10 employees to be WCAG compliant. There are also website accessibility laws in Canada, the UK, Australia, and many other countries around the world. Failure to comply with web accessibility laws can result in fines, lawsuits, and, in some countries, jail time.

Improve Your Search Engine Ranking

Many accessibility fixes can also improve your website’s search engine performance – from better optimizing the site with appropriate keywords, to improving the HTML structure, to reducing bounce rate because users of all abilities will be able to better navigate the site and engage with content. Bringing more people to your shop ultimately means more products purchased.

 


Frequently asked questions

How do I know if I need an accessibility audit?

In our experience, unless you are already extensively focusing on website accessibility, there are likely accessibility issues present on your current website that need to be fixed. Nearly all websites and online stores have accessibility problems because, unfortunately, we have not yet reached a point where all designers and developers make accessibility a priority.

If you’re not sure how accessible your shop is or if you need an accessibility audit, we recommend getting a free risk assessments from Equalize Digital. These assessments tell you:

  1. If there are any errors present on your website.
  2. If there are website accessibility laws that may apply to your organization.
  3. How Equalize Digital can help you make your shop compliant.

Contact Equalize Digital for more information.

How long do audits and remediation take?

If you request a risk assessment, you’ll be able to schedule a meeting to go over it at a time that makes sense for you. Typically Equalize Digital's team has your risk assessment complete and is available to meet to discuss it within a few business days.

Audits can be completed in as little as 1-2 weeks, but may extend beyond that depending upon the number of pages being audited.

The remediation process can take as few as three months or extend to a year or more, depending on the number of issues on your website and how much you want to invest in fixing them quickly.

Does Equalize Digital offer automated accessibility solutions?

Yes. Equalize Digital has a WordPress plugin, Accessibility Checker, which has both free and paid versions. The plugin offers automated accessibility scanning in the WordPress dashboard and automated accessibility fixes to help speed up accessibility testing and remediation.

Does Equalize Digital have experience working with enterprise e-commerce?

 

Yes. The Equalize Digital team has audited and remediated large enterprise websites. They have provided accessibility consulting for multi-million dollar e-commerce stores, government agencies, and other enterprise-level clients. They are familiar with the unique challenges of accessibility remediation on high-volume WooCommerce websites. Equalize Digital is an approved federal contractor in the United States.

 

Countries

  • Worldwide