Monthly accessibility audits. Real code-level fixes. No overlay widgets.
ADA Scans is SD’s productized accessibility monitoring program. Every month we crawl your site with Pa11y (headless Chromium, WCAG 2 AA), deliver a PDF audit, and spend 2.5 hours fixing the top theme-wide issues in your WordPress code. Your compliance posture improves month over month. The audit trail proves it.
A scanner + a retainer + a paper trail.
Most accessibility services fall into two camps. Overlay widgets that inflate scores without fixing anything underneath (accessiBe, UserWay) cost $59–150/mo and produce defensible-on-paper compliance theater. Mid-market agencies run $1,000+/mo for one-time audits with no recurring remediation. Neither shape fits a small to mid-sized organization that wants real WCAG compliance without an enterprise budget.
ADA Scans sits between them. A monthly automated full-site scan runs against your live WordPress site using Pa11y — the open-source headless-Chromium accessibility tester. The scan produces a PDF audit emailed within minutes of completion. The retainer covers 2.5 hours of code-level remediation per month, applied to the highest-impact theme-wide issues (one CSS or template fix usually corrects hundreds of pages at once). The next month’s scan verifies the fix held. Every quarter, a trend report shows month-over-month progress.
The work is real WordPress work — theme files, template partials, ARIA additions, contrast fixes, semantic markup. No JavaScript injection. No overlay. Nothing a screen reader detects as compensation. The audit trail you build month over month is defensible in any compliance review.
Not an overlay. Not WAVE. Real browser, real coverage.
Pa11y runs a real Chromium browser. Sites behind Cloudflare bot management, WordPress Engine Global Edge Security, or other real-browser checks don’t block it. WAVE’s API user-agent gets blocked at the edge on many WordPress hosts — we switched the SD default from WAVE to Pa11y in May 2026 after exactly that.
Pa11y wraps the axe-core ruleset (industry standard) plus its own additions. Color contrast, semantic structure, ARIA correctness, keyboard navigation, label/control associations, form validation. No “scoring shortcut” that overlays use to inflate a number while missing real defects.
Pa11y is open source and runs in SD’s own EC2 Docker container. There’s no per-page credit cost to throttle scope. We can scan a marketing site, a member portal, and a 330-store locator on the same monthly cron — and we do, for Mountain Mike’s. Pricing covers the work, not the volume.
Every tier covers the full loop.
- · Monthly automated full-site scan, fired on the 1st at 9am PT
- · PDF audit report auto-emailed within minutes of scan completion (headline stats, prioritized fix list, clean-pages roster, methodology footer)
- · Code-level remediation hours per tier (theme-wide fixes prioritized over page-specific)
- · Verification re-scan after fixes deploy
- · Quarterly trend report (errors / contrast / alerts month over month, pages improved vs. regressed)
- · Direct access to SD for ad-hoc accessibility questions
// not included: new page builds, third-party plugin remediation, manual screen-reader walkthroughs, legal compliance certification, VPAT documentation. Overflow remediation bills against an existing block-of-hours or quoted separately.
Three tiers. No upsell games.
| Standard | $250/mo | Single-domain WordPress · < 50 unique templates · 2.5h remediation |
| Plus | $395/mo | Multi-template or multi-subdomain · e-commerce / member areas · 4h remediation |
| Enterprise | Custom | 500+ pages · multi-locale · VPAT documentation · manual screen-reader pass |
Currently scanning for one named client.
Mountain Mike’s Pizza is the founding ADA Scans client. The monthly cron fires the 1st of every month at 9am PT, scans the full marketing site plus a sampled location-page (one of 330 stores; the others share a template), and emails the PDF audit within minutes. The 2nd Monday of every month is a 4-hour remediation block on Aaron’s calendar against MMP’s site.
The full case study is at /work/mountain-mikes/ — ADA monitoring is one of four workstreams in their year-7 engagement.