Four prices, published, with what each includes
What an accessibility audit costs, and what you are actually buying.
Quotes in this field range from a few hundred to fifty thousand, which tells you nothing until somebody explains what changes between them. This page publishes our prices, says exactly what is inside them, describes what a larger engagement buys that ours does not, and gives you the arithmetic for the part nobody quotes: the development work afterwards.
Renewal 20% lower. Seven days free, no card.
The four prices
These are published because hiding them wastes everyone's time. There is no discovery call between you and the number.
| Plan | Price a year | Covers | Signed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| European Union | 690 € | One domain, statement written to Annex V | Europe Services SE, Prague |
| Canada | 890 CAD | One domain, Ontario web conformance record | Goldman Services INC, Ontario |
| EU Plus | 1,290 € | Three domains, six languages | Europe Services SE, Prague |
| Global | 1,990 € | EU, United Kingdom and Canada, one renewal date | All three entities |
Every plan includes the same work: automated and manual testing, the findings report, the signed document, the public verification code, the hosted feedback channel, monthly re-testing and five years of records. The difference between them is territory and number of sites, not depth of testing.
Why other quotes are higher, honestly
If you have a quote in front of you for twenty times this, it is worth reading what it includes before concluding anyone is wrong.
A specialist consultancy quoting twenty thousand is usually not overcharging for the same thing. They are quoting a different engagement, and it is worth knowing what the extra money buys.
User testing
Sessions with participants with disabilities, recruited, facilitated and analysed. Genuinely valuable, and expensive because it involves people's time.
Remediation
Their developers doing the fixes rather than yours. That is where most of a large budget goes.
Training and workshops
Getting your team to the point where new work is built accessibly. It changes the trajectory, and it takes days of senior time.
Every page, every app
Exhaustive coverage of a very large estate, including native apps and document libraries.
If you need those, buy them, and treat this page as a comparison of a narrower product. What we sell is the testing, the documentation and the signature, priced so that it is a decision somebody can make without a procurement process.
The cost nobody quotes: fixing what is found
Every audit proposal you receive will be silent about this, so here are real numbers from real remediations.
The audit price is the predictable part. The development work depends entirely on the findings, and the honest way to talk about it is in hours rather than in fear.
| Typical finding | Developer time | Frequency on a first audit |
|---|---|---|
| Visible focus style missing | 1 hour | Very common |
| Icon buttons without names | 1 to 3 hours | Very common |
| Form errors not announced | Half a day | Common |
| Modal focus management | Half a day per component | Common |
| Custom dropdown rebuilt properly | 1 to 2 days | Occasional |
| Data table headers and sorting | 1 day | Occasional in applications |
| Content fixes: alt text, links, headings | No developer needed | Always |
For most small and medium sites the blocking items add up to a few days of work, spread across two releases. Sites built from a component library do better still, because one fix propagates everywhere, as described on the SaaS page.
What doing nothing costs
This is the number that is never on a quote, and it is not primarily a legal one. A checkout that cannot be completed with a keyboard loses customers silently, every day, and the analytics record it as an abandoned basket indistinguishable from indecision. Nobody writes to tell you.
Then there are the visible costs when they arrive: a tender scored down or disqualified for a missing conformance report, a procurement process stalled while somebody writes one under pressure, a complaint that has to be answered without any evidence of testing, and in several countries an administrative penalty at the end of that road.
Against that, a fixed annual price and five business days is a cheap way to convert an unknown into a managed position.
Getting an exact figure
- Run the free scan. It costs nothing and tells you whether the situation is tidy or structural.
- Count your sites. One domain, or three, or a group of brands.
- Name your markets. The European Union, the United Kingdom, Ontario, or a combination.
- Check the table above. In almost every case the answer is one of the four published prices.
- Ask if your case is unusual. Very large estates, multiple applications behind logins, or unusual scopes: write and we say honestly whether the plan fits.
No discovery call is required to learn the price, and there is no scoping fee. The scope questions in the order form take about ten minutes, and testing starts the same day.
Where the money goes
Fixed prices deserve an explanation of what sits behind them, so here is the breakdown in plain terms.
It is a fair question to ask of any fixed-price service. Roughly speaking: the automated pass is cheap and fast, and clears the mechanical defects. The manual testing is the bulk of it, because it is a person working through your flows with a keyboard and a screen reader, and that time cannot be compressed without lying about the result. Writing the findings in language a developer and a marketer can both act on takes longer than people expect. The statement itself is quick, because by then the facts exist. The monthly re-tests are largely automated with a human check when something changes.
What keeps the price where it is, is that the method is the same every time. We are not designing a bespoke engagement for each client; we are running one process, refined, on many sites. That is also why the delivery date is five business days rather than a negotiation.
Budgeting for it inside a small company
Approval is rarely the obstacle. Finding the development time is.
The annual price is easy to approve and the development time is not, because it competes with everything else in the backlog. Three approaches work in practice.
Fold it into an existing sprint. The blocking items are few and small. A team shipping fortnightly can absorb them without a separate project, provided somebody puts them in the sprint rather than in a document.
Attach it to work already planned. If a redesign, a replatform or a checkout change is coming, the marginal cost of doing it accessibly is close to zero while the templates are open. The expensive version is doing it twice.
Split content from code. Half the findings on a typical site need no developer at all: alt text, link wording, headings, tables trapped in images. Handing that half to whoever publishes pages removes it from the engineering queue entirely and usually closes a third of the report in a week.
The second year costs less
This is true in a way that is worth stating plainly. The first audit finds everything accumulated since the site was built, which is why the first list is the longest one you will ever receive. The structural fixes then live in shared code and shared templates, so they do not come back. The monthly re-test catches regressions while they are small, which means the second audit finds a handful of items rather than a backlog.
Renewal itself is 20% lower than the first year, and the work behind it shrinks as well. Organisations that keep the plan running for two or three years generally reach a point where the monthly result is a single line saying nothing changed, which is exactly what you are paying for: not a document, but the absence of a surprise.
What you are buying, item by item
Fixed prices invite a fair question: what exactly lands in your hands for the money. Six things do, and each of them exists because somebody asked for it during a real audit.
The testing. An automated pass over the site, then a person working through your real flows with a keyboard and a screen reader, at 400 percent zoom and at narrow widths, including the areas behind a login when you give us access.
The findings report. Every barrier written in plain language: the page, the component, what a person cannot do, the change to make, the priority. Split so content people and developers each get their half.
The signed document. The statement or record required in your jurisdiction, written from the findings and signed by the company established there, with a date on it.
The verification code. Printed on the document and checkable by anyone on our public register, so a buyer or an authority can confirm it without contacting you.
The feedback channel. Hosted by us, forwarded to you, so the route the law requires actually exists and actually reaches somebody.
The maintenance. Monthly re-testing with comparison against the previous run, reissue of the document when something material changes, and five years of retained records.
Pricing questions
What does an accessibility audit cost?
Our plans are annual and include the audit: 690 € for the EU, 890 CAD for Canada, 1,290 € for three domains and six languages, 1,990 € for the EU, UK and Canada together.
Why is it priced annually rather than per audit?
Because a site changes. A one-off report describes a website that stops existing the week after it is delivered.
What is included in the price?
Automated and manual testing, the findings report, the signed statement, the public verification code, a hosted feedback channel, monthly re-testing and five years of records.
What is not included?
Development work, native mobile apps, document remediation, captioning and user research sessions.
Why do agencies quote several thousand?
They often scope a larger engagement: workshops, remediation, retesting, sometimes user testing. Different product, different price.
Is there a per-page price?
No. The price is per site, with the scope agreed before testing starts.
What if my site is very large?
Templates repeat, so a representative sample plus every unique flow covers it. If the scope is genuinely unusual we say so before you order.
Do you charge for re-tests?
No. The monthly re-test is in the plan.
What does remediation cost?
That depends on your findings and who does the work. Most first audits produce a handful of blocking items that take a developer days rather than weeks.
Is there a cheaper option?
The free scan costs nothing and tells you whether you have a structural problem. After that, testing costs what it costs.
How does this compare to an overlay subscription?
Similar annual cost, entirely different product: one tests and documents, the other adds a script.
Do you offer multi-site pricing?
Three domains and six languages are covered by the 1,290 € plan; beyond that, ask.
Is VAT included?
VAT is applied according to your country and status, and shown before payment.
Is there a free trial?
Seven days, no card, with cover valid from day one.
Can I pay and start later?
Yes, up to 24 months ahead, with the start date chosen at checkout.
What happens at renewal?
Renewal is 20% lower than the first year.
Is there a refund policy?
The refund terms are published in the legal section of the site.
How do I get an exact figure?
Tell us the domain, the markets you sell in and how many sites you have. The answer is one of the four plan prices in almost every case.