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An accessibility audit you can act on, not a compliance dump.

A free scan tells you what an automated tool can catch.
An audit tells you what matters.

I’m Bekee Gibson, a WordPress consultant in Madison, Wisconsin, and I run WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility audits for small businesses and nonprofits, starting at $1,500. Every significant page gets checked through automated scanning, code-level detection, and my own review, then written up in plain language you can act on or hand to a developer. No overlay widget, no jargon you have to decode. The web doesn’t care where either of us sits, so plenty of this work is outside Madison.

What you get

A plain-language findings report. What’s wrong, where it is, who it affects, and why it matters. Written so you can understand it, not just forward it.
A prioritized fix list. Ordered by what matters most, not dumped alphabetically. The barriers that block people come first.
“Fix once in the template” grouping. Most issues repeat across every page because they live in the theme or the top nav. I group those so one fix clears them everywhere, instead of inflating the report or the remediation.
A clear line between what I do and what you approve. Some fixes are code; some are content or brand decisions that are yours to make. I tell you which is which.
Before-and-after previews for judgment calls (like color contrast), so you can see a fix before you commit.

How the audit works

Every page goes through more than one pass, because no single method catches everything.

Automated scanning (axe-core) reliably catches mechanical issues: missing alt text, empty links, contrast failures, and missing labels.
Code-level detection I built measures what other scanners give up on. When text sits on a photograph, axe cannot tell what color is behind the letters, so it marks the item “needs review” and moves on. I hide the letters, photograph the real background behind them, and do the math. On one restaurant menu page that turned 230 items nobody had graded into 203 that passed, 23 that failed, and 4 that still needed a person. The same pass catches alt text that is technically present but useless (a filename, a camera string, “image123”).
A keyboard pass that drives the page instead of reading it. I press Tab and write down where focus lands, all the way through, and I confirm focus is visible by comparing the rendered pixels focused against unfocused. Reading the stylesheet is a different question, and a weaker one. I also check that your skip link works, not just that it exists.
AI-assisted review reads the parts that take comprehension, not just pattern-matching: whether a link’s text is meaningful in context, whether your headings describe their sections, whether your page titles are clear and distinct across the site. Every AI finding gets flagged for my confirmation, so nothing lands in your report on a machine’s say-so alone.
Site-wide checks for the problems no single page can show you, like the same destination carrying a different label on every page it appears.
A manual-review list for what no scan can settle: color carrying meaning on its own, an embedded widget, a page that animates. Those come to you as questions, not as failures I invented.
My review ties it together: I confirm the judgment calls, sort real barriers from deliberate choices, and decide what goes in the report.

The free scan you may have run is only the first pass. The audit is all of it.

What I don’t claim

I’d rather be straight with you than oversell this.

No audit by anyone can certify your site as 100% accessible. Anyone who says differently is selling something (usually an overlay widget, which doesn’t satisfy WCAG and can raise your lawsuit risk rather than lower it).

This audit also doesn’t include live testing with people who use assistive technology day-to-day (screen readers, voice control, switch devices). That’s a separate specialty, and if your situation calls for it, you’d bring in someone who specializes in that work. This audit gives you an honest, defensible read of where your site stands against WCAG 2.1 AA and a clear path to fixing what it finds.

Some criteria I surface instead of grading. If a page animates, I flag it so a person can confirm the motion can be paused and that nothing flashes more than three times in a second; the tool does not measure flash rate and does not make that call for you. The keyboard pass has limits I would rather name myself. It walks the page as it first loads, so a menu that only opens after a click is not part of the walk. And reaching a control with the Tab key is not the same as being able to use it once you get there. You get those as questions, not as a verdict I invented.

What it costs

My accessibility audit starts at $1,500. The final number depends on how many pages your site has and how complex it is, so I’ll give you an accurate quote once I’ve seen what we’re working with.

What impressed us most was that the improvements didn’t come at the expense of our brand. The Marigold personality, colors, and overall feel remained intact while making the site more accessible and easier to navigate for everyone.
Kristy and Clark Heine, Marigold Kitchen

Want to know where your site stands?

If you haven’t yet, run the free scan first; it’ll give you the automated first pass in a few minutes. If you’re ready for the full picture, get in touch, and we’ll talk about what your site needs.