A WCAG 2.2 AA audit of one property. Findings your engineering team can act on.

One-and-a-half to three weeks. Findings cite WCAG SC, page, element, and component file:line. Signed under principal-engineer attestation. Designed for an ADA demand letter, a vendor RFP, or a marketing-site refresh regression.

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$10,000–$25,000 One-and-a-half to three weeks · T&M with cap

Counsel needs evidence. Your engineering team needs file:line. The market sells PDFs.

An ADA demand letter landed, or a vendor RFP just asked for your accessibility posture, or your marketing site refreshed and the design team has a feeling something regressed. Counsel needs evidence. Your engineering team needs file:line. Procurement needs a credible signature. The market is full of accessibility PDFs that satisfy none of those.

Most “accessibility audits” available today are an axe-core dump dressed up in a PDF. The findings don’t cite component file:line. The remediation roadmap is “fix the axe-core findings.” The signature, if there is one, is from a firm whose engineers never opened your codebase. axe-core is a useful tool — we run it as part of the engagement — but a tool report is not an audit. An audit is engineering judgment applied to your specific surface, with the tools as one input among several.

A1 is the engineering audit for one property. We read your code, walk every page or template, capture assistive-tech evidence on actual NVDA / JAWS / VoiceOver / TalkBack interaction, rate findings by severity, and deliver a remediation roadmap your engineering team can act on without translating it. The report is signed under principal-engineer attestation through Clarity House LLC. Counsel-defensible, procurement-defensible, engineer-actionable.

WCAG 2.2 AA findings report

Every finding cites the specific WCAG 2.2 success criterion, the page or template, the element, and — where the property is built on a known component library — the component file:line. Engineering can act, not "fix it somewhere."
Severity-rated remediation roadmap

Findings ranked by severity (blocker / serious / moderate / cosmetic) and ordered for sequenced remediation. Each finding sized in engineering effort, with the fix described concretely. Slottable directly into a sprint.
Assistive-tech matrix evidence

Screen-reader, keyboard-only, and zoom evidence captured against the property under test. NVDA / JAWS / VoiceOver / TalkBack as scoped. Not a screenshot of axe-core; recordings and transcripts of actual interaction.
Executive summary

One page, plain language, calibrated to the buying moment — counsel-readable for a demand-letter response, procurement-readable for an RFP, audit-committee-readable for a board.
Signed audit report

Signed under principal-engineer attestation through Clarity House LLC. The document your counterparty receives.
60-minute findings walkthrough

Engineering, design, and (where present) counsel attend; we walk every finding with the BST principal who did the work. Questions answered, follow-up scope identified.

Process

How it works

Kickoff & Access
Day 0–1

Deliverable Signed contract, scope locked, access provisioned

Contract signed, prerequisites confirmed, scope locked. Templates enumerated, locales confirmed, assistive-tech matrix scoped. We do not begin technical work until access and scope are written down.
Audit pass
Days 2–8

Deliverable WCAG 2.2 AA findings against the scoped templates

Every page or template walked against WCAG 2.2 AA, with assistive-tech evidence captured. axe-core and Pa11y are part of the toolchain; they are not the audit. The audit is engineering judgment applied to your specific surface.
Severity & roadmap
Days 9–11

Deliverable Severity-rated findings, remediation roadmap, executive summary draft

Findings rated and sequenced. Roadmap drafted with engineering effort sized per finding. Executive summary calibrated to the buying moment. Internal QA pass before the report goes out.
Walkthrough & delivery
Days 12–15

Deliverable Walkthrough call + signed report

Walkthrough with engineering, design, and (where present) counsel. Revisions incorporated. Signed report delivered under principal-engineer attestation.

$10,000 – $25,000 One-and-a-half to three weeks · T&M with cap

Engagement model Time & materials with not-to-exceed cap

Compact tier (single small property, ≤ 25 unique templates, single locale, marketing or simple app surface) lands at $10K–$15K / 1.5–2 weeks. Standard tier (≤ 60 unique templates, transactional flows, single locale) lands at $15K–$20K / 2–2.5 weeks. Complex tier (multi-flow app, multi-locale, embedded AI features, or design-system-shipped consumer) lands at $20K–$25K / 2.5–3 weeks. Time-and-materials with a not-to-exceed cap. If we land early, you pay for hours worked. PHI-touching patient-portal surfaces are scoped under G1, not A1.

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Anchor pricing reflects typical engagement ranges. Actual fees are scoped per engagement under time-and-materials with a not-to-exceed cap. Pricing shown does not constitute a binding offer.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How long does this take?

One-and-a-half to three weeks from signed contract to delivered report, depending on tier. Compact tier ships in 1.5–2 weeks; complex multi-flow app surfaces extend to three weeks. See the accessibility cluster overview for how A1 sits beside the other audit shapes.

What does this cost?

$10K–$25K, time-and-materials with a not-to-exceed cap. We invoice hours actually worked, never more than the cap. If we land early, you only pay for the hours. PHI-touching patient-portal surfaces are scoped instead under G1 (Patient Portal Specialty Audit).

How is this different from axe-core or a tool-only audit?

axe-core surfaces a subset of WCAG 2.2 findings deterministically — and we use it. It does not catch:

focus-management bugs
screen-reader announcement gaps
keyboard-trap regressions
semantic-structure misuse
cognitive-load issues

The audit is engineering judgment applied to your surface, with the tools as one input among several.

Will the report stand up under counsel review?

Yes. Findings cite WCAG 2.2 SC, page, element, and component file:line. The report is signed under principal-engineer attestation through Clarity House LLC. Counsel-defensible under ADA Title III framing, procurement-defensible.

Will you sign a VPAT 2.5 / ACR off this audit?

Yes — but the VPAT 2.5 / ACR signature is a separate engagement: B1 (VPAT 2.5 / ACR Production). A1 produces the audit evidence; B1 converts that evidence into the signed conformance artifact your procurement counterparty accepts. The two are commonly bundled under a single unified cap.

Do you do AAA?

A1 is scoped to WCAG 2.2 AA. AAA-bucket criterion engineering — the contrast, focus, and target-size criteria that ship at the token / component layer — is the D1 sub-product (AAA Token Pipeline). AAA is a per-criterion ladder, not a single conformance claim; we tell you which criteria are within reach for your surface during scoping.

Can BST do the remediation work too?

Yes, on a separate SOW. Many clients run A1 as a discovery engagement and fund remediation against the prioritized roadmap, then bring BST back for closeout re-audit. Where the remediation is mostly token-layer regressions, D1 is often the better-shaped follow-on engagement.

What if my surface is a patient portal?

Patient portals and other PHI-touching healthcare surfaces are scoped under G1 (Patient Portal Specialty Audit), which runs under PHI-aware doctrine with engineering controls supporting Business Associate obligations under an executed BAA. A1 is for non-PHI single properties. Healthcare AI features pair with the Healthcare AI Compliance Review.

Ready to find what an engineering audit actually surfaces?

One-and-a-half to three weeks. Findings cite component file:line. Signed under principal-engineer attestation. NDA before any access.

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A WCAG 2.2 AA audit of one property. Findings your engineering team can act on.

Counsel needs evidence. Your engineering team needs file:line. The market sells PDFs.

What you get

WCAG 2.2 AA findings report

Severity-rated remediation roadmap

Assistive-tech matrix evidence

Executive summary

Signed audit report

60-minute findings walkthrough

How it works

Kickoff & Access

Audit pass

Severity & roadmap

Walkthrough & delivery

Pricing

Frequently asked questions

Often combined with

VPAT 2.5 / ACR Production (B1)

Healthcare AI Compliance Review

Ready to find what an engineering audit actually surfaces?