A focused B2B service that audits small- and mid-sized business websites against WCAG 2.1/2.2 standards (the de facto US legal threshold under ADA Title III), produces a clear remediation plan, and optionally implements the fixes, protecting clients from the surging wave of digital-accessibility lawsuits.
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Low$500 – $3,000Market Size
LargeADA digital-accessibility lawsuits in the US have surged from ~800 in 2017 to ~4,500+ in 2024, with NY/CA/FL law firms running near-industrial demand-letter operations. A single non-compliant SMB website faces $15K–$30K in settlement plus mandatory remediation.Competition
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ADA digital-accessibility lawsuits in the US have surged from ~800 in 2017 to ~4,500+ in 2024 (growing ~15% YoY), with NY/CA/FL law firms running near-industrial "demand letter" operations against SMB websites, a single non-compliant e-commerce or restaurant site faces $15K–$30K in settlement plus mandatory remediation. The European Accessibility Act took effect in June 2025, extending similar pressure to anyone selling into the EU. Meanwhile, "AI accessibility overlay" tools (UserWay, accessiBe) have been publicly discredited, courts have ruled overlays don't satisfy WCAG, and overlay vendors themselves are being sued. SMBs are stuck between rising legal exposure and tools that don't work, while the established accessibility firms (Deque, Allyant) charge enterprise rates. A solo specialist doing real manual audits at SMB pricing fills a clear, urgent gap.
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You're partly fighting the perception that "an overlay tool fixed it." Owners install accessiBe for $49/mo, see a button on their site, and assume they're compliant. Educating them on why overlays fail (and showing recent case law against overlay users) is half the sales process.
Remediation needs the client's developer, who may not exist (no-code sites) or may resist ("the site looks fine to me"). You'll deliver a clean audit, then watch the fixes never get implemented, making your monitoring subscription harder to sell because the underlying issues never got resolved.
ADA digital-accessibility law is in flux. The DOJ keeps signaling formal regulations but hasn't shipped them. If clearer rules drop and they're either softer (kills your urgency) or stricter (compresses client timelines), the market shifts. Defensive play: anchor your work to WCAG (the international standard) since every US interpretation tracks back to it.
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Go Pro · $1 for 7 daysPriced for Fortune 500, completely inaccessible to SMBs. Their toolset is built for enterprise scale and overkill for a single small-business site.
Too expensive and feature-heavy for an SMB with one website to maintain; SMBs don't need a 50-feature platform, they need one clean audit and a fix list.
Overlays don't satisfy WCAG, courts have ruled them insufficient, and overlay vendors themselves are now being sued. SMBs install them thinking they're protected, get sued anyway, then come to you for a real audit. The pitch writes itself.
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Go Pro · $1 for 7 daysSMBs with public-facing websites (e-commerce, restaurants, healthcare practices, education, service businesses) whose lawyers or insurers have flagged ADA exposure, or who got a demand letter and need to come into compliance fast.
Fixed-fee audits ($1,500–$5,000 per site depending on complexity) → remediation projects ($3K–$25K hourly or fixed-bid) → ongoing monitoring subscriptions ($150–$500/mo). The compounding play: audit becomes remediation becomes recurring monitoring per client.
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Go Pro · $1 for 7 daysBased on ~$2500/mo avg revenue per active engagement for this type of business. Estimates assume steady monthly effort.
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