Web Accessibility Services · ADA Website Compliance · Bay Area, California

Web Accessibility Solutions

That Reach More Customers,

Rank Higher & Protect Your Business

Accessibility isn’t just about avoiding lawsuits. It’s about reaching more customers, improving usability, ranking higher in search, and building a site that works for everyone — on every device, in every situation. We help Bay Area WordPress sites reduce accessibility risk — affordably and honestly.

Get your free site scan

See what it cost

Reduce Legal Risk

ADA lawsuits target California small businesses — we help you stay covered

Reach More Customers

70%+ of users with disabilities leave inaccessible sites

Boost Your SEO

Accessibility best practices are also SEO best practices

Better for Everyone

High contrast, captions, and clear navigation help all users

Why It Matters

Four Real Business Reasons to Make Your Site Accessible

Most people hear “accessibility” and think compliance. But the business case goes well beyond avoiding lawsuits — and for most Bay Area small businesses, these four reasons are the ones that actually move the needle.

01 / Legal Protection

California small businesses are being targeted

ADA website lawsuits are real and increasing — California leads the nation in filings. Plaintiff law firms use automated tools to scan thousands of sites and send demand letters to businesses with obvious accessibility barriers. A documented good-faith effort to meet ADA standards is your best protection. The good news: most small WordPress sites have a handful of fixable issues, not a mountain of them.

California leads the U.S. in ADA website filings

02 / Market Reach

You’re leaving customers at the door

Over 70% of web users with disabilities will leave a website that isn’t accessible — and never come back. Screen reader compatibility, properly labeled forms, and logical navigation open your site to a significantly larger audience, including the fastest-growing demographic in California: adults over 65.

70%+ of users with disabilities leave inaccessible sites

03 / SEO & Usability

Accessibility and SEO want the same things

Descriptive alt text, clear heading hierarchy, logical navigation, and clean link text — these are accessibility requirements and SEO best practices. The same improvements that make your site usable for a screen reader user also make it more readable and rankable for Google. One investment, two returns.

Alt text, headings, and navigation improve both

04 / Better for All Users

The curb cut effect — designed for some, used by all

High contrast modes help people with low vision — and anyone browsing in bright Bay Area sunlight. Video captions help people who are deaf or hard of hearing — and anyone watching on BART without headphones. Keyboard navigation helps people with motor disabilities — and power users who prefer not to use a mouse. Improving accessibility makes your site better for everyone.

Better UX for 100% of your visitors

What Our Clients Think

Jason with Bay Area Web Solutions is great to work with! He is professional and quick to solve problems. Jason has taken care of WordPress hosting and maintenance, migration, troubleshooting Elementor, and email fixes through Google Workspace for our firm. Highly recommend!

Hannah Koehler
Jason saved me when my webhosting service located in Bulgaria deemed malware infected my website but would not provide any guidance with how to fix it or back up the website once it was removed from the public… Jason worked quickly and was able to retrieve some of the website and rebuild it from scratch… the website is a better looking design AND is more secure.
Dr. John Folmar, AuD

The Legal Reality

Here’s the Honest Version of What You’re Facing

You’ve probably already heard about ADA website lawsuits — that’s likely what brought you here. Here’s what you actually need to know, without the scare tactics.

The manageable part

Most small Bay Area business websites have a handful of fixable issues. Courts look favorably on businesses that make documented good-faith efforts to meet WCAG 2.1 standards. You don’t need full compliance overnight — you need to not be doing nothing. An audit, remediation, and regular testing is genuine good-faith effort toward meeting the web content accessibility guidelines.

The part worth acting on

Plaintiff law firms use tools to identify vulnerable sites and send demand letters at scale. California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act — alongside the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 at the federal level — adds state-level penalties on top of federal ADA exposure. The Department of Justice has made web content accessibility a clear priority. The businesses that get letters are almost always the ones who have never thought about this at all.

If you’ve already received a demand letter: get an attorney experienced in ADA defense first — we can’t give legal advice. Then contact us to prioritize remediation. Courts look favorably on defendants who move quickly and can document their efforts toward compliance.

What we do well

Run professional automated audits — WAVE as our primary benchmark, Equalize Digital for ongoing internal QA
Deliver a plain-English report of every accessibility barrier found on your site
Fix issues at the WordPress code level — themes, plugins, and content
Provide monthly monitoring so new content doesn’t undo your progress
Work exclusively in WordPress — deeply, not broadly
Give you honest answers about your risk level and what you actually need

What we don’t do

Manual testing with live screen reader users — a different, more expensive service
Install overlay widgets — they don’t fix the code and we won’t pretend they do
Provide legal advice or represent you in ADA claims
Work on non-WordPress sites
Charge enterprise prices for small business problems
Upsell you on compliance levels your situation doesn’t require

How It Works

Four Steps — Starting With Free

No lengthy onboarding. No surprise scope. Here’s exactly what working with us looks like.

01

Free Scan

Submit your URL below. We run WAVE on your site within 24 hours and send you a plain-English summary of what we found — at no charge, no strings attached.

03

Remediation

Our WordPress developers remediate every issue at the code level — themes, plugins, content, and structure. Real fixes that hold up. We verify with a post-fix WAVE re-scan before handing the site back.

02

Free Consultation

We walk you through the findings together. You’ll understand your actual situation, what needs fixing, and what it will cost — before you commit to a single dollar. No pressure, just information.

04

Monthly Monitoring

New pages, plugins, and content can introduce new issues. We re-scan your site every month and let you know what, if anything, needs attention — ensuring you stay accessible to the disability community and compliant going forward.

Why It Matters

Straightforward Pricing — No Surprises

Everything is based on automated audits — professional tools trusted by government agencies and universities across the U.S. We show you the numbers before you have to ask.

Audit + Consultation

Free

No obligation — start here

WAVE scan of your site
Consultation to review what we found
Fixed quote to remediate issues WAVE identifies against WCAG 2.1 AA
Aligned with Section 508 and ADA requirements

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Audit + Remediation

$1,297

Small site — under 10 pages

All issues fixed at the WordPress code level
Theme, plugin, and content remediation
Post-fix verification included
In some cases with severely inaccessible themes, it makes sense to rebuild in a better theme — quoted separately

Get Started

Audit + Remediation

$1,797

Medium site — 10 to 30 pages

All issues fixed at the WordPress code level
Theme, plugin, and content remediation
Post-fix verification included
30+ pages: custom quote
In some cases with severely inaccessible themes, it makes sense to rebuild in a better theme — quoted separately

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Ongoing Monitoring

Keep Your Site Covered Every Month

New pages, plugins, and content can introduce new accessibility issues over time. Regular testing catches them before they become complaints — or demand letters.

Monthly Monitoring

$35 /mon

Month-to-month — cancel anytime

Monthly full-site re-scan
Written report of any new issues found
Catch problems before they become complaints
Recommended after every remediation project

Add Monitoring

Audit + Remediation

$20/mon

When bundled with our hosting plan

Everything in monthly monitoring
15 minutes of no-cost fixes each month
Bundled with WordPress Hosting & Maintenance
The smartest way to stay covered long-term

Learn About The Care Plan

If you’ve already received a demand letter: get an attorney experienced in ADA defense first — we can’t give legal advice. Then contact us to prioritize remediation. Courts look favorably on defendants who move quickly and can document their efforts toward compliance.

Ongoing Monitoring

WAVE — Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

Built by WebAIM and used globally, WAVE visually identifies accessibility errors, structural issues, and WCAG violations on any web page. It’s the same tool we recommend business owners run themselves — and our first pass on every site we work on.

WordPress Plugin

Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker

A professional WordPress accessibility platform that scans every page, post, and custom post type from inside your dashboard against WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.2 standards. Tracks open issues over time — the right tool for ongoing monitoring and identifying accessibility issues across your site.

On automated vs. manual testing
Automated tools reliably catch the most common WCAG violations — missing alt text, color contrast failures, inaccessible forms, and improper heading structure. Industry research from Deque Systems found that automated testing identifies approximately 57% of real-world accessibility issues by volume. Full manual testing with trained screen reader users and assistive technology provides broader coverage but costs significantly more. For most Bay Area small businesses, automated testing is the right and effective starting point. We’ll tell you honestly if your situation calls for more human expertise.

Questions We Hear From Bay Area Business Owners

Start with the free scan. Submit your URL below and we’ll run it through WAVE and send you a plain-English summary within 24 hours. Most people are surprised by what comes up — and relieved that the fixes are more manageable than they expected

We specialize exclusively in WordPress because it’s where we can fix things properly, not just flag them. If your site isn’t on WordPress we’re not the right fit for remediation — but we’re happy to point you toward someone who is. We can also discuss rebuilding your site on WordPress, which is often a good opportunity to modernize and improve accessibility at the same time.

It happens with older or poorly-built themes that have inaccessible features baked into the code. We’ll tell you upfront if the problems are deep enough that remediation costs more than a theme rebuild. In those cases you’ll get an honest quote for both options before committing to anything — no surprises.

For most Bay Area small businesses — a contractor, a nonprofit, a local restaurant — automated testing addresses the issues that appear in ADA demand letters and meaningfully improves the experience for users with disabilities. Research from Deque Systems found automated testing identifies around 57% of real-world accessibility issues by volume. Manual testing is a higher standard used by large enterprises and organizations with significant legal exposure. We’ll tell you honestly where you fall — and if you need manual testing, we can help with that too.

Yes. If your situation calls for manual accessibility testing — testing with trained screen reader users, keyboard-only navigation review, and human evaluation of content quality — we can provide that or coordinate it through specialists we work with. Be aware that manual testing costs significantly more. A manual audit for a small site typically starts at $3,000–$5,000 depending on scope. We’ll give you an honest assessment of whether you need it before you spend anything.

We fix everything our automated audit identifies against WCAG 2.1 Level AA — the standard courts reference. No tool catches every possible accessibility barrier and we won’t claim otherwise. What we can say is that your site will be measurably more accessible and significantly less exposed to the automated scanning that drives ADA demand letters. For PDF documents linked from your site, we can address those as well.

For a typical small WordPress site (under 10 pages), most projects are completed within 1–2 weeks after the consultation. Larger or more complex sites may take 2–4 weeks. We give you a timeline before you commit.

Each month we re-scan your full site with WAVE and Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker. New pages, blog posts, images, and plugin updates can introduce new accessibility barriers over time. We send you a plain-English report of anything new we find. Fixing new issues is billed separately — or included at no cost if you’re on our WordPress Hosting & Maintenance Care Plan.

Not too late — but get an attorney experienced in ADA defense first. We can’t give legal advice. What we can do is help you implement the necessary fixes to meet ADA and meet WCAG requirements quickly. Courts look favorably on businesses that take prompt corrective action — beginning remediation before your first court appearance demonstrates good faith. Contact legal counsel, then reach out to us to prioritize the work. Moving fast and documenting your accessibility efforts matters.

What our clients say

I highly recommend using this company. Jason has been awesome! He’s a wealth of knowledge and his work is impeccable. The previous web company I had managing my site couldn’t get me found on google l, costing business. I found Jason, he was able to troubleshoot the issue l, and now I’m coming up regularly on searches. Thanks Jason!
Jeff Long
Owner EMS Rescue