Find the accessibility barriers on your website, and how to fix them.
BarrierScan scans every page of your site, prioritizes what it finds by the issue patterns most often cited in digital accessibility lawsuits, and gives your developers fix guidance they can act on the same day.
- Low-contrast textSerious
- Content outside landmarksModerate
- Heading levels skip aroundModerate
- Critical
- Serious
- Moderate
- Minor
Accessibility lawsuits are not slowing down.
Over 5,000 digital accessibility lawsuits were filed in US courts in 2025, and demand letters outnumber lawsuits several times over. About seven in ten target online stores. Most cite the same handful of issues: missing image descriptions, unlabeled form fields, buttons and links with no accessible name, poor color contrast, and pages that cannot be used with a keyboard.
These are findable problems. Most sites have simply never looked.
Why we will never sell you an overlay.
Overlay widgets promise one-line-of-code compliance. The Federal Trade Commission fined the largest overlay vendor one million dollars for false compliance claims, and overlay-equipped sites continue to be sued; some lawsuits now cite the overlay itself. An overlay hides problems from you while leaving them in place for your visitors.
BarrierScan does the opposite: we show you exactly what is wrong, where it is, and how to fix it in your own code, so the problems actually go away.
How it works
- Scan. We crawl your site page by page in a real browser and test each page against the industry-standard WCAG ruleset.
- Prioritize. Findings are ranked by litigation frequency, severity, and whether they sit on the pages that matter most: home, product, cart, checkout, contact.
- Fix and verify. Every finding comes with plain-English explanation and a concrete code example. On monitoring plans we rescan on schedule, confirm what is fixed, and flag anything new before it accumulates.
Pricing
Baseline Audit
$490
one time
Full-site scan (up to 200 pages), prioritized findings report with code-level fix guidance, 30-minute written Q&A by email.
Buy the Baseline AuditMonitor
$249
per month
Monthly full-site rescans, fixed/new/regressed tracking between scans, updated report and email summary, fix support by email.
Start MonitorPro
$590
per month
Weekly rescans, everything in Monitor, plus per-finding fix code written against your actual markup, priority email support, and agency-ready white-label reports.
Start ProBaseline Audit fee is credited toward your first month on any monitoring plan.
What automated testing can and cannot do.
Automated scanning reliably detects many of the most common and most litigated accessibility barriers, but not all of them, and any vendor quoting one tidy coverage number is rounding in their own favor. Deque, the maker of the rules engine we use, measured 57 percent of issues by volume across roughly 300,000 findings from real audits. The UK Government Digital Service planted 143 barriers on a deliberately broken page and found the best single automated tool caught about 41 percent, and 29 percent were caught by no tool at all. That is the honest range: somewhere between a third and a bit over half, depending on how you count.
Three things work in your favor here. First, the barrier types that appear over and over in lawsuits and demand letters, such as missing image descriptions, unlabeled form fields, links and buttons with no accessible name, poor color contrast, and missing document language, sit squarely inside what automated testing detects reliably, which is exactly why our reports prioritize them. Second, we scan every page of your site in a real browser rather than sampling your homepage, so problems get found where they actually live: product pages, carts, checkout flows. Third, we tell you plainly what automation cannot judge. Screen reader behavior, keyboard flow, and cognitive load require human testing, and we will say when you need it rather than pretend software covers it.
BarrierScan reports are not a certification of legal compliance, and no honest vendor can sell you one.
FAQ
Will this make my site immune to lawsuits?
No, and be wary of anyone who says otherwise. What it does is systematically remove the barriers that draw complaints in the first place, with evidence you are working on the rest.
We already have an overlay widget. Are we covered?
The data says no: overlay-equipped sites are sued regularly, and some complaints now cite the overlay itself. We recommend fixing the underlying issues and removing the widget.
Do you do manual audits or VPATs?
Not in-house. When you need full manual testing or procurement documentation, we will say so and refer you to a qualified specialist firm rather than stretch our scope.
What do you need from us to start?
A URL. For the free homepage scan, nothing else. For full-site work, nothing else either, unless you want us to scan behind a login, which we arrange by email.