Worried About an Accessibility Lawsuit?
You’ve probably heard that multiple small businesses and organizations throughout Missouri and the Kansas City area have been targeted for alleged website noncompliance. While the U.S. doesn’t explicitly codify web accessibility standards within the ADA, courts frequently reference international WCAG guidelines to determine if reasonable accommodations have been provided. Important to note: if you receive any state or federal funding, you are required to provide an accessible website by April 2026.
While you’re likely to get a demand letter asking you to fix your website first, if your website isn’t usable by everyone, you could be liable.
Let us identify the risks and tell you how to get to compliance.
Achieve ADA Website Compliance
It’s time to get accessible! Website accessibility compliance ensures that everyone can use your website, no matter their abilities.
When your business website isn’t accessible to people with disabilities, you’re excluding potential customers. The lawsuits filed in the Kansas City area were brought by a blind individual who was unable to work with the companies he wanted to.
Do you really want to exclude customers from your business because they use the internet differently than you do?
Your Website Needs to be Accessible to People With:
- Blindness
- Color blindness
- Low vision
- Deafness
- Hearing loss
- Epilepsy
- Dyslexia
- Learning disabilities
- Arthritis
- ADHD
- and more
Web Accessibility Helps
Reach More Customers
Improve Your SEO
Reduce Your Liability
Web Accessibility Experts to Put Your Mind at Ease
You don’t need to be a marketing or website expert to have an ADA-compliant website. You just need the right partner to guide you through the process.
Our team is led by Marisa VanSkiver, who has been working in web accessibility since 2013. Trained by the award-winning team for the Scottish Government, she knows how to create compliant websites that are both visually appealing and compliant.
A senior educator at Wichita State, Marisa loves to teach and empower her clients to feel confident in their websites.
Customers Love Working with Captain Coder®
Marisa is an amazing person who has a way of listening to what we want and communicating what we actually need, and making it look great at the same time. The end result is an amazing website that will, no doubt, help our organization thrive!
Get a Custom Website Accessibility Audit
You don’t have to learn everything about WCAG standards to have an accessible website. Our team can audit your main website pages, letting you know exactly what’s broken and what you need to fix.
We’ll break down exactly what you’re doing now that can exclude potential customers and help you get compliant.
Stop the guesswork and get your custom Web Accessibility Report.
Here’s What You Get
- Full audit of your navigation and footer
- Prioritized list of issues so you know where to start
- Instruction on how to address them
- Screenshots of each error for clarity
- Passing Brand Color Combinations guide
- Coaching call to walk you through your results
Web Accessibility Has an ROI
Before you look at the audit and think, “Oh, this is a lot to take on,” I have good news for you. Accessible websites return more than you spent.
The average ROI of web accessibility is 100:1. That’s more than you’ll ever get back on your social media or any other marketing campaign.
Think about it: 27% of the US population has some kind of disability, and they control billions in disposable income. You are currently excluding some or all of these individuals from your business with a bad website. Making your website accessible ensures that you can reach everyone who is the right fit for your business.
With our audit, you can know exactly what needs to be fixed. We can show you how to resolve those issues on your own or provide a quote to address them for you.
Even better—everyone who signs up for an audit with us gets our Creating Accessible Content checklist to help you stay compliant.
Don’t Shortcut Web Accessibility
Many “simple” solutions, like widgets and overlays, claim to make your website accessible. However, these tools often have the opposite effect. They make your website less accessible.
In January, the FTC fined one of the largest accessibility overlays, accessiBe, $1 million for false advertising. Lawsuits targeting users of accessiBe are on the rise as they fix some issues but actually make a website more difficult for individuals with disabilities.
Make Your Website Accessible, Correctly
At Captain Coder, we don’t ever recommend shortcuts. Instead, we help you identify the actual issues and then help you fix them.
Following the international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), we help your website be accessible for everyone without a third-party subscription tool that slows it down.
Discover Your Web Accessibility Barriers
How Our Web Accessibility Audits Work
We Perform a Comprehensive Audit
Automated tools only find 30-40% of web accessibility issues. Most barriers are found during manual, in-depth reviews. Our web accessibility experts use both manual and automated testing to identify barriers, ensuring you don’t miss any vital issues.
Create an Actionable Audit Report
You’ll receive a clear, easy-to-understand report outlining all the issues we found. More importantly, we’ll give you specific, actionable suggestions on how to fix them.
Review Results in a Coaching Call
We won’t just hand you a report and leave you hanging! We’ll schedule a one-on-one call to walk you through the audit, answer all your questions, and provide guidance on prioritizing the fixes.
Frequently Asked Questions
For most websites, we follow the internationally recognized WCAG 2.2 standards. Title II requires conformance with 2.1, so we test for that when needed, but we like to ensure that all of our sites follow the latest best practices.
We first create a comprehensive accessibility brief to ensure we’ve defined the scope, criteria, and deliverables. Then, we create reports using automated and manual testing to ensure all errors are caught. The report outlines each page where an issue was found, organized by severity (high, medium, and low) based on user impact. It also outlines how the issue can be rectified.
When anyone gets into a website and makes changes without the proper knowledge, they can quickly cause issues. To help mitigate future issues, we provide an easy checklist for you to follow when you’re adding content to your website and even social media.
We also offer monthly website remediation services to help ensure conformance.
Yes, we can! To ensure we’re following WCAG, we custom-code WordPress themes to allow for easy updating without breaking the site’s design. Many accessibility issues happen before the first line of code is written.
No. Websites tend not to be static, meaning they change frequently. Whenever you make updates to your website, you can knock it out of compliance. Depending on how your website is built, software updates can also affect your accessibility. Plus, web accessibility standards can change over time. However, by having the right foundation and following accessibility best practices, you’ll be miles ahead of your competition and be less of a target.