Everything about ADA/WCAG compliance and how SiteProof works. Still stuck? Use the chat bubble, bottom-right.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been interpreted by US courts to cover websites as “places of public accommodation.” The practical standard courts and the DOJ point to is WCAG 2.1 Level AA — a technical checklist for making web content usable by people with disabilities. SiteProof checks your site against these criteria.
Yes. Over 4,000 ADA website lawsuits are filed in US federal court each year, plus many more demand letters that settle privately for typically $5,000–$20,000. Small and mid-sized businesses are common targets because they’re less likely to have audited their sites.
No automated tool makes you “compliant” on its own — automation reliably catches roughly a third of WCAG issues. Our free scan finds the structural problems (missing alt text, unlabeled forms, etc.). Full conformance also needs checks our paid monitoring adds (color contrast, JavaScript-rendered content, keyboard traps) plus some manual review. We’re upfront about this.
Overlay widgets (the “accessibility button” products) try to patch your site at runtime and have themselves been sued — courts and accessibility advocates widely criticize them. SiteProof doesn’t inject anything into your site. We audit and monitor, then tell you exactly what to fix in your own code, which is what actually reduces legal risk.
Monitoring re-scans your site on a schedule, checks the things the free scan can’t (color contrast, JS content, keyboard navigation), alerts you when a new violation appears, and emails a dated compliance report you can keep on file. Plans start at $29/month. See the pricing page for details.
The free scan stores nothing about the page contents — it analyzes and discards. For monitoring, we store only the URL and the list of issues found so we can show you changes over time. We never inject code into your site.
Each finding in your report includes the WCAG criterion, why it matters, a plain-English fix, and the offending code snippet. Most issues (alt text, form labels, page titles) are quick HTML edits. If you use Shopify, WordPress, or Wix, we have platform-specific guides — ask in chat and we’ll point you to the right one.
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