What a WCAG audit actually covers

01

Automated testing finds the common half

Automated engines reliably detect roughly half of WCAG failures — and crucially, the most common ones: low contrast text (on 83.9% of top homepages), missing alt text (53.1%), unlabeled form fields (51%), empty links (46.3%). Per WebAIM, 96% of all detected errors fall into just six machine-detectable categories. Fixing those transforms a site's real accessibility.

02

Human review covers the rest

Keyboard flows, focus order, screen reader semantics, cognitive load — these need a person. An honest audit tells you exactly which criteria were machine-checked and which need human eyes, instead of pretending a scan is the whole story.

03

A useful report is prioritized

A wall of 400 violations helps nobody. A useful report groups findings by criterion, ranks them by legal risk and user impact, points to the exact elements, and explains the fix in plain language a client can act on. That is the difference between a report that gets fixed and one that gets filed.

04

One-off audits expire

Every deploy, CMS edit or new banner can introduce regressions. The sites that stay accessible are the ones monitored continuously: re-scanned monthly, with alerts when something breaks. Audit once, monitor forever.

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