Accessibility
Your website may be leaving people out.
Indelible builds WCAG 2.2 AA accessible websites by default, not bolted on. And we bring existing sites into compliance.
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Real people are trying to reach your content, your services, your mission.
Screen readers. Keyboard navigation. Visitors with low vision who need high contrast, or who zoom their browser to read. These are the people accessibility is for.
For nonprofits and mission-driven organizations, the pressure is real. Funders ask about accessibility, and grant applications include it. If your organization receives federal funding, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the ADA set clear expectations, and courts have applied those expectations to websites.
Most sites handle it the wrong way. They bolt on an overlay widget, check a box, and move on. An overlay does not produce a compliant site. It produces a site with an overlay on it.
Accessibility built in, not bolted on.
On every Fully Managed Eleventy site we build, WCAG 2.2 AA compliance is structural. It lives in the markup, the color contrast, and the keyboard navigation. It lives in the form labels, the heading hierarchy, and the alt text. It is not a plugin or an overlay.
AA is the bar US courts and federal law reference. A site that meets it can be run by a screen reader, operated by keyboard, and read at high zoom by low-vision visitors. Forms explain their errors in plain words. Images carry descriptions, and nothing depends on color alone.
So you do not pay twice. You spend once, on a site that ships right. For an existing site, we audit against WCAG 2.2 AA, show you what fails and why, and fix it, with a clear scope and no unnecessary rebuild.
What we deliver on a Fully Managed build.
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Accessible markup from the first line of code.
Semantic HTML, landmark structure, a real heading hierarchy, and ARIA only where it helps. Clean code, not patches.
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Color contrast validated at build time.
Every text and background pair is checked against the WCAG standard before a page goes live, not after.
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Keyboard-first navigation.
Every interactive element works without a mouse. Tab order follows the layout, and focus indicators stay visible.
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Forms that meet the standard.
Labels tied to inputs, errors that say what went wrong, required fields marked in the design and the code.
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Alt text on every image.
Informative images get descriptions. Decorative ones are marked so screen readers skip them. Our tooling catches the gaps before launch.
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Continued compliance monitoring.
The Indelible Steward system audits the site regularly, so a regression surfaces before a visitor finds it.
What we deliver on an existing site (remediation).
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A full WCAG 2.2 AA audit.
Automated scanning plus manual review against the standard. Every failure is logged with its location, the criterion it breaks, and its severity.
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A plain-language report.
Not a 40-page technical dump. A clear accounting of what fails, why it matters, and what we recommend.
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Prioritized remediation.
We fix what matters most first and document the changes. On WordPress we work with what you have; moving to Eleventy, compliance comes with it.
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A completed audit form for funders.
If a grant or funder needs documentation of your site's accessibility status, you will have it.
Our own tooling.
We built our own tools because close enough was not good enough. Indelible runs its own audit tool, Inquisitor, against the WCAG standard on every site, built to catch what we kept finding by hand after the automated passes.
Why us
Why nonprofits choose us for this work.
The site you are reading is one of our own Fully Managed builds. Every claim on this page about accessibility describes how this site was made, the same markup, the same contrast checks, the same keyboard paths. We do not sell what we do not run ourselves, and mission-driven organizations across Southern Vermont trust us for exactly that.
Straightforward on cost.
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On a Fully Managed build: included.
WCAG 2.2 AA is built into every Eleventy site, not a separate line item. Fully Managed sites start at $4,000 for up to ten pages, larger sites custom-quoted, with accessibility in the base of each one.
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On an existing site: quoted per scope.
The cost depends on your site's size, its current state, and your platform. We do not guess. We audit first, give you a clear scope, and you decide.
To get started, request a free accessibility audit. It is the same audit we use to scope any remediation. No call required, and you decide what to do with the results.
Questions worth asking.
Does my nonprofit have to be ADA compliant?
It depends, and you should confirm with legal counsel for your situation. If your organization receives federal funding, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act applies, and courts have extended ADA requirements to websites. Funders increasingly make it a grant condition too, so most nonprofits should treat it as a requirement, not a nice-to-have.
What is the difference between WCAG compliance and an overlay widget?
An overlay widget is a script you add to a site that tries to fix accessibility problems on the fly for users who turn it on. It does not produce a compliant site. It produces a site with a widget on it.
Courts have found overlay-dependent sites non-compliant, and the automated tools used in legal complaints read the underlying code, not the overlay output. We do not use overlays. We fix the site.
Our site was built a few years ago. Is it likely to have problems?
Almost certainly yes, at least some. WCAG 2.2, the standard courts and funders reference today, was only published in late 2023, so almost every existing site was built to an older bar or none at all. Even careful sites miss form labeling, contrast, or keyboard access on interactive parts. We will tell you exactly what is there.
Will this require a full site rebuild?
Not always. For many sites, remediation is scoped work on the existing build. For some, if the platform or theme makes compliance hard to reach or maintain, we may recommend a different path. We tell you what we find before we recommend anything.
Does a compliant site stay compliant?
Not automatically. Every time you add a page, update a plugin, or change a theme component, a regression can slip in. On our Fully Managed Eleventy builds, ongoing compliance is part of how we maintain the site. On remediated WordPress sites, we recommend periodic audits, built into a care retainer or scheduled as needed.
Start with what you know you need.
Not sure where your site stands? The free audit is the first step. We check accessibility alongside performance and search visibility and send you a plain-language report, no call required. Already know you need the work? Let's talk scope and timeline.