Accessibility audits
Digital products can look fine while still excluding disabled people. Audits help to identify and fix accessibility barriers.
If you haven’t had your digital product assessed for accessibility, it can be hard to know if, for example, a blind person can use your product. This is where audits help.
Accessibility helps people with vision, hearing, physical, intellectual, and reading disabilities use digital products successfully.
Most digital products contain hidden design & code flaws that break essential accessibility features. For example:
- apps that break with large font sizes enabled
- online forms that don’t work with screen reader software
- sites that only work with a mouse, and can’t be used with the keyboard only.
Audits test against industry standards, including WCAG 2.2 and the NZ Government Web Accessibility Standard.
Audit options
Basic audit
For simple and small websites, apps, and products. For example, brochure sites, or projects with limited budgets.
Review depth: [focused on key pages]
- Price
- From $1,000
- Timeframe
- Within 3 days
- Scope
- Up to 5 pages
Standard audit
For medium-complexity websites, apps and products.
Review depth: [decent coverage]
- Price
- From $2,000
- Timeframe
- Within 1 week
- Scope
- Up to 15 pages
Full audit
For high-importance services with many users, or organisations that want to excel at accessibility. Ideal for government, news publishers, health, education, etc.
Review depth: [no stone unturned]
- Price
- From $5,000
- Timeframe
- Within 2 weeks
- Scope
- Up to 25 pages
Why get an OpenAccess accessibility audit?
- Reach more customers. Digital services that aren’t accessible may exclude disabled people from using your service.
- Accessibility helps everyone. Accessible design results in a better user experience overall.
- Reduce legal risk. It’s illegal to discriminate against people due to their disability. If your service is not accessible, you may be at risk of being subject to a human rights complaint.
- A trusted expert. Audits are by Callum McMenamin: a disabled accessibility consultant who advises organisations including Creative New Zealand, serves on the Ministry of Disabled People’s Accessibility Advisory Group, and previously helped define NZ Government accessibility standards and measurement systems.
We onboarded a new blind customer. They gave us very positive feedback about our website’s accessibility thanks to the advice you gave us!
Website owner
What every audit includes
- Human expert review: AI is not capable of accurately testing for accessibility.
- Manual testing: screen reader testing, keyboard-only functionality, large font sizes, and more.
- Automated checks: to complement human expert review.
- An easy-to-understand report: each issue includes user impact, severity, screenshots, WCAG references, fix guidance, with CSV exports.
- A 1-hour post-audit meeting: with email support.
After the audit
Once you’ve got an audit, it’s time to implement fixes. OpenAccess can help for this stage too.
- Post-audit support package: Get a set number of hours for collaborative support for your developers and designers, to help get fixes implemented quickly and correctly.
- Follow-up testing: Get the product re-checked to ensure fixes were correctly implemented.
- Monthly support: Get ongoing advice, reviews, and support so your team can fix issues correctly and build accessibility into future work.
Get a quote
Interested? Send an email describing what you need.