Accessibility /
Usability audits

Accessibility plays a crucial role in ensuring that disabled users can access and interact with websites and applications without any barriers. To achieve this goal, accessibility audits are a valuable tool that evaluates the compliance of your digital product or service with established accessibility standards.

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Accessibility and usability audits help organisations ensure they conform to accessibility laws and regulations - the UK Equality Act 2010 and the European Accessibility Act 2020. By identifying accessibility gaps early on, organisations can proactively address them and minimise the risk of legal consequences.

But, most importantly, by conducting these audits you can improve user experiences for all individuals on any device. By identifying and addressing digital barriers, organisations can provide seamless navigation, interaction, and content consumption - opening their ‘digital doors’ to everyone.

So, how ManticDesign do it?

We at ManticDesign want accessibility to be easy to implement. The solutions we recommend are assessed in terms of priority and effort of implementation. We have designed our accessibility audit to give you known solutions to any problems found, and a context within which to apply them.
A representative selection of pages from your site is identified and checked for compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG v2.1 and 2.2, as laid down by the W3C). The testing does not rely on automated checking only – each page is evaluated ‘by hand’, as the W3C recommends.
We then produce a report that sets out:

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• A summary of the key issues, with tables showing the progress made to each of the three levels of accessibility: A, AA and AAA

• A prioritised list of issues to be addressed that indicate the severity of the issue and an estimate of the resource required to address this

• A detailed description of the accessibility issue, why it isn’t compliant with the WCAG v2.0 and 2.1 checkpoints with recommendations of how the issue should be addressed and examples of revised coding where appropriate
   

We also recommend a follow-up meeting, where we would present the outcomes and discuss how best the changes can be implemented in light of the constraints faced by the client.
A compliant accessibility statement that can be published on the audited website is included in the cost of an accessibility audit.