Accessibility Audit Companies, Compared
Five named competitors, their own published terms, read on August 4, 2026. Every claim links to the page it came from so you can check it yourself, and the sections below explain what each difference buys you.
Why This Page Names Names
Most comparison tables invent their competition. They put up a column called “Typical Agency” or “Budget Provider”, assign it whatever weaknesses flatter the vendor who built the table, and win every row. It is not research, it is set dressing, and any reader who has seen a few of them discounts the whole thing on sight.
So this one names five real providers, quotes what they publish, links to the page each claim came from, and stamps the date it was read. If we have got something wrong or a term has moved, you can see that in one click, and we would rather hear about it than leave it standing.
There is no price column. We took it out when we moved to scoping engagements on a call, rather than leave our own row saying “ask us” beside five competitors’ published figures. Showing everyone else’s number while withholding ours would have turned a comparison into an advertisement. If you want ours, it takes fifteen minutes and it is fixed in writing before you commit to anything.
Harbor’s testing is done by hand by a DHS-certified Trusted Tester, and every report is signed by a named evaluator. The table covers providers who publish enough to be compared; the large enterprise vendors are absent because they publish almost nothing at all.
What Each Provider Publishes
Read from each provider’s own pricing page on August 4, 2026. Next review November 2026.
| Provider | How Page Count Affects It | VPAT/ACR In the Fee | EU / EN 301 549 In the Fee | Individual Evaluator Named | Delivery Date Committed | Re-Test Included |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harbor Accessibility Co. | Yes. No page limitPriced by template only. A store with 300 products on one product template is one template. The fee does not move as your catalogue grows. | Yes. IncludedSigned VPAT/ACR, INT edition, in the fee. | Yes. Included, no upgrade feeEvery engagement ships the international edition, covering WCAG 2.2 AA, Section 508 and EN 301 549 in one document. If EU coverage becomes necessary later, the fee does not change. | Yes. Named, with a certificate numberEvery ACR is signed by a named DHS Trusted Tester. Harbor is led by Andrew Szigety, DHS Trusted Tester TT-2606-09221, and his certificate is published on this site. | Yes. Committed at signingDay 10 on Focused, day 14 on Standard. Automatic credits of 10-30% if we miss it, and you may cancel past 10 business days late. | Yes. 2 to 5 rounds includedEach round re-issues an updated ACR. Not billed separately. |
| Accessible.orgaccessible.org/pricing | Not stated. Priced per page"$100 to $250 per primary page." Cost rises with the page count, and the audit covers a representative sample rather than every template. | No. Sold separately, from $350"Many clients add our VPAT service (WCAG edition) for $350." The audit itself does not include the document. | No. Extra: $650 EN 301 549 edition"EN 301 549 ACR: $650 + audit cost" sits above "WCAG Edition ACR: $350 + audit cost", with the combined "INT Edition ACR: $950 + audit cost". Their own page states that "Conformance with WCAG alone does not equal conformance with EN 301 549", so the cheaper edition does not reach the EU standard. | Not stated. Certified team, no individual namedStates that "All Accessible.org auditors are certified DHS Trusted Testers". That is a real credentialing claim; what is absent is a name and a certificate number attached to your specific report. | Not stated. Not publishedTheir page does not address it. It may well be available on request; we score only what is published. | Not stated. Not stated as includedA post-remediation validation process is described; the page does not state it is included in the price. |
| Skynet Technologiesskynettechnologies.com | No. Pages AND templates cappedEvery tier caps both: 5 pages / 2 templates, 10 / 4, 30 / 12, 50 / 20, 100 / 40. A big catalogue on few layouts still pushes you up several tiers. | Yes. Included in the VPAT tiersBuying from their VPAT/ACR tier table gets the document in that price. Buying an audit alone does not; that is a separate service. | Yes. EU and INT editions, one price gridThe VPAT page lists EAA / EN 301 549 and International editions among four documentation types under a single package grid running $500 to $12,500 by page and template count, with no edition surcharge stated. The VPAT is priced separately from the manual audit. | No. Not named | No. Delivery estimate only"Usually delivered in 5 business days" at the entry tier, scaling with size. No remedy stated if missed. | No. Charged separately"We also provide an optional re-audit service to validate the fixes." |
| DigitalA11Ydigitala11y.com/pricing | No. Priced per page"$100 to $350 per page." A 200 page store is priced as 200 pages, however few layouts sit behind them. | No. Sold separatelyOffered, but quoted as its own line item at $1,000 to $3,000 on top of the audit. | No. Separate tier, from $2,000Conformance reports are priced by standard: "WCAG 2.2 AA VPAT: Starting at $1,000 / Section 508 VPAT: Starting at $1,500 / EN 301 549 VPAT: Starting at $2,000 / International VPAT: Starting at $2,500." The EU document is a step up, not the base fee. | No. Not named | Not stated. Not publishedTheir page does not address it. It may well be available on request; we score only what is published. | No. 50% of the audit feeValidation after remediation is a separately priced item at half the original audit fee. |
| TestProstestpros.com | Not stated. Not publishedThe page gives a range with no scope breakdown, so how page count moves the number is not stated. | Yes. Included | Yes. EU and INT editions in scopeTheir EN 301 549 page states that testing aligns with the European Accessibility Act and that VPATs and Accessibility Conformance Reports are provided, without pricing the EU edition as a separate product. Note their overall price is published as a range with no scope breakdown. | No. Not named | No. Estimate onlyTwo to four weeks, extendable. | Not stated. Not publishedNot addressed on their page. Ask them; we score only what is published. |
| Web Audit Solutionswebauditsolutions.com/vpat-services | No. Tiered by page countAudit tiers run by page type, and the VPAT is priced by page count: under 10 pages, under 20, then over 20. More pages moves both. | No. Sold separately"After your website meets accessibility standards, we will issue you an Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR)." A real service, priced on its own page rather than bundled with the audit. | No. Only in the top INT tier"VPAT 2.5 INT: Incorporates all standards (including VPAT 2.5 EU, EN 301 549 Edition)", charged as a distinct and more expensive product than the domestic editions on the same price table. | No. Not named | No. Delivery estimate only5 to 20 business days by tier, stated on their audit pricing page rather than the VPAT page. | Yes. One round, on Full audits"Follow Up Re-Test of any errors, at no additional charge" - on their Full audit tiers. Their VPAT service is priced separately, so these two cells describe the audit rather than the document. |
How to read this table. It scores what each provider publishes, not what they are capable of. “Not published” means their page does not address it, and several of these things are commonly agreed in a contract or on a sales call, so treat those cells as questions to ask rather than as failings. One reason a price column would mislead even if we had kept it: the fees in this market are not like-for-like, since some are per page, some per tier, and some exclude the conformance document entirely. Claims were read on August 4, 2026, are re-checked quarterly, and come only from each provider’s own pages, never from a review site or a pricing aggregator.
What You Are Protected By
The table above is what we sell. This is what stands behind it when an engagement does not run to plan, and all of it lives in the signed service agreement rather than in a promise on a web page.
If the ACR Is Late, the Credit Is Automatic
Your delivery date is fixed when you sign: day 10 on a Focused engagement, day 14 on Standard, day 21 on Professional. Miss it and a credit comes off the engagement fee on its own, with nothing to claim and nothing to negotiate.
Cancel Past 10 Business Days Late
Credits are the smaller remedy. If delivery runs more than 10 business days past the committed date, you also have the right to cancel the engagement entirely, owe nothing, and keep all work product produced to that point. The audit notes, the evidence and the draft report are yours to take to another evaluator.
60% of the Fee Waits for Your Report
40% of the fee is paid at signing. The rest is billed only once the signed VPAT/ACR reaches you: 40% on delivery and 20% at remediation sign-off.
If Your Tester Becomes Unavailable
Your audit data is version-controlled and backed up throughout the engagement, current as the work happens rather than assembled at the end. If the tester on your engagement becomes unavailable, a backup tester Harbor has already arranged can continue the work. The backup tester holds the DHS Trusted Tester certification. Your committed date, the credits above and the right to cancel still apply.
Errors and Omissions Insurance
Engagements are backed by Harbor’s Errors and Omissions policy, subject to its terms and limits, and we will send you the coverage details if you ask. To be exact about what it is: professional liability cover for the practice, not a warranty of the findings, and it does not indemnify you against a third-party claim.
What these cover, precisely. They stand behind the delivery of the document and the accuracy of the testing inside it. Conformance itself belongs to your product and is decided by what your team ships, so it is something we report on rather than something any auditor can promise you, and we make no legal determination about ADA or Section 508 compliance. Read the terms for how that is written down.
Days spent waiting on client-side prerequisites, such as access, staging credentials or approvals, do not count toward lateness. Engagement terms are set in a separate signed service agreement, and the credit schedule is stated in full in the FAQ on the pricing page.
What the Difference Buys
Published prices on this table start at $500 for an audit and $1,000 for a VPAT. What separates the providers shows up when someone reads the document closely. A procurement reviewer reading a conformance report asks two questions almost immediately: who performed this evaluation, and what qualifies them. Accessible.org answers the second one honestly at the company level, stating that all of their auditors are certified Trusted Testers. What none of the providers in this table answer is the first: not one of them names an individual on your report, or attaches a certificate number to it.
Your report is signed by a named DHS Trusted Tester. Harbor is led by Andrew Szigety, certificate number TT‑2606‑09221, issued under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Trusted Tester program. His certificate is published on this site, so your reviewer can read it before you are in the room. DHS does not publish a registry, so a certificate is the record: a named person, an issuing authority, and a document, instead of an unattributable claim.
The other three differences are the ones that cost money when they are missing. The conformance document is in the fee rather than a separate line item. The delivery date is committed when you sign, backed by automatic credits if we miss it, instead of an estimate that slides while your deal waits. And re-tests after your team fixes things are included, with a re-issued ACR each time, rather than billed at half the original fee.
Those four things are what the fee pays for: a named, certified evaluator, the document inside the fee, a date you can plan around, and re-tests until the report matches the product you fixed.
Who Is Missing From the Table, and Why
The large enterprise vendors are not here because they publish nothing. Their work is genuinely good and their reports carry real weight. They also sell annual platform-and-services contracts rather than single reports, and none of them will show you a price without a sales process. We are not going to put a number on them here, because every figure we could find came from third-party estimates rather than the vendors themselves, and this page only uses figures we can link to. We left them out rather than invent a column.
Overlay widgets are not here because they are a different product. A JavaScript widget that claims to fix accessibility automatically does not produce a conformance report, and procurement teams do not accept one as evidence. What an overlay does and does not change, and what the FTC ordered over the compliance claim, is set out in Do Accessibility Overlays Make a Website ADA Compliant?
Marketplace listings are not here because the scope is unknowable. You can buy something described as a VPAT for under $100 on a freelance marketplace. What arrives is usually a template filled in from an automated scan. If your reviewer is going to read it closely, that is a risk you are taking with your own deal.
Do Not Take Our Word for Any of This
The best test of any provider is the work itself, so both deliverables from a real engagement are published here in full, ungated. Read them before you talk to anyone, and compare them against whatever else you are considering.
The remediation plan is the one worth scrutinising. Plenty of audits end at the finding: a long PDF sorted by success criterion that is really a scanner export with a cover page. Ours groups findings by root cause, so fourteen images with bad alt text is one item with fourteen instances rather than fourteen tickets, and every finding carries the before-and-after code.
What the Certification Actually Means
Harbor audits are performed under the DHS Trusted Tester certification, the U.S. federal government’s own Section 508 test methodology, used on its own technology. It is a real certification, and each certificate has a number. Andrew Szigety’s is TT‑2606‑09221, and it is published on this site.
It matters because of what a reviewer can do with it. A collective claim that “our auditors are certified” names nobody, so there is nothing to follow up on. A certificate number attached to a named individual can be raised with the issuing body: DHS answers questions about the programme at accessibility@hq.dhs.gov.
Nothing in your report comes from a scanner alone: every failure is reproduced by hand before it is written down, and anything we could not judge with confidence says so rather than quietly passing. Every engagement is covered by Errors & Omissions insurance, subject to the policy’s terms and limits. That is professional liability cover, not a warranty of the findings, and it does not indemnify you against a third-party claim.
What Automated Tools Cannot Detect
Automated scanners check code patterns, missing alt attributes, insufficient colour contrast, empty form labels. The rest takes human judgment. These only surface through manual testing with assistive technology:
- Keyboard traps, where a user can tab into a modal or date picker but cannot tab out without a mouse
- Incorrect reading order, where the visual layout says one thing and the screen reader announces another
- Misleading alt text, which scanners pass because the attribute exists, even though it describes the wrong thing
- Missing focus management, where focus is never moved after a form submits and keyboard users are stranded
- Inaccessible custom controls, which work with a mouse but expose no roles, no keyboard support and no state changes
Here is the number that matters. Of the 55 WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA success criteria, an automated tool can return a reliable pass or fail on about six. For roughly a third of them it can help, flagging candidates a person then has to judge. For the rest it has nothing useful to say at all. A scan narrows the search; it does not finish it, and it cannot sign anything.
Get a Fixed Price and a Date
How Engagements WorkIf this is your first time buying an audit and the table above raises more questions than it answers, the guide to what an accessibility audit costs covers what you are paying for and how to read any quote, not only ours.
Competitor figures were read from each provider’s own published pages on August 4, 2026 and are re-checked quarterly; next review November 2026. They are reproduced here for comparison and may have changed since. Follow the links in the table to check any of them against the source. If you believe something here is inaccurate, tell us and we will correct it.