Can everyone use your website?

Often not, and we would rather tell you that than sell you an audit you do not need. The Act applies to a defined list of services: e-commerce, consumer banking, passenger transport, e-books and dedicated software, electronic communications and audiovisual media access. It does not cover every business with a website. On top of that, Regulation 5(4) of S.I. No. 636 of 2023 exempts microenterprises providing services, meaning fewer than 10 staff and an annual turnover or balance sheet of €2 million or less, and the CCPC's own guidance says the requirements do not apply to them. So a small practice or salon with a brochure site is usually outside it, while a hotel taking bookings online or a shop selling online, above that threshold, is inside it. Where it does apply, non-compliance is a criminal offence with fines of up to €60,000 on indictment. If you are not sure which side of the line you are on, ask us and we will tell you straight. Councils, education and training boards and other public bodies come under separate rules (S.I. 358/2020, the Web Accessibility Directive) whatever their size.

WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) is the international standard for web accessibility. Version 2.2 at level AA is the benchmark in the latest version of the European standard, EN 301 549, and it builds on version 2.1, which the version currently cited for the Act refers to. Meeting 2.2 AA covers 2.1 AA as well. It rests on four principles: your site must be Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust. In practice that means things like: images have alt text, the site works with a keyboard alone, text has enough contrast, and forms have proper labels.

Your free homepage check usually arrives within minutes, and always within one business day. Paid audits are delivered within 3 business days for Small Site (up to 5 pages), 5 for Standard (up to 15), and 7 for Large Site (up to 30) and Full Site (up to 250). We confirm the date when you order.

Our core service is finding and documenting the issues in enough detail that any competent web developer can implement the fixes. Every paid audit includes a Developer Fix Guide alongside the main report: a step-by-step remediation document your developer can work from directly. If you need help finding a developer to implement the fixes, we can point you in the right direction.

No. Nobody can certify a website as legally compliant, and we will not pretend to. What you get is evidence: a prioritised report, a Developer Fix Guide and a draft accessibility statement to publish. Once your fixes are in, one free re-scan (no time limit) shows what is resolved. If the re-scan finds no Critical or Major accessibility issues, you get our verification badge for your site, linked to a public page that is re-checked every day.