Accessibility for Startups
Accessibility that keeps up with your roadmap.
Most startups never get an audit, and the ones that do get a report about a version of the product that changes next month. So we do something more durable. We assess what you have built before we start, then join your team for two weeks: five meetings, about three hours of your time a week. We show your designer and developer how to get it right and set up checks that help catch common issues as you ship. It starts at $1,500 for a team of one or two.
- Grant, Shadab and Sam, on your team, for two weeks
- Five meetings, about three hours a week
- 15% off a full audit afterwards
Why not just an audit?
An audit assesses a defined version and scope of your product. This program helps your team make better accessibility decisions as the product changes. A full audit costs $3,000 to $9,500, which is a lot to pay for a snapshot of a product whose UI might change significantly in a month.
What actually helps at this stage is knowing how to do it yourselves. Your designer will learn what to look for before handing off a screen. Your developer learns the most common issues created in the development stage. We set up the tools that suit what you have built, including the ones that check every pull request before it merges, and teach your team the manual testing no tool can replace.
That is what the two weeks are for. If you want a full audit later, once the product has settled, it is 15% off. The goal is to help your team prevent recurring issues and prepare for a future audit.
- A mini audit, done before we start. We go through the main things people do in your product and tell you, plainly, where it stands.
- Two working sessions. One with your designer, one with your developer, on the screens you are building right now. If that is the same person, it is the same two sessions.
- Tools that keep checking. We pick the ones that suit your stack and your design files, set them up with you, and wire them into your pull requests, so problems surface on every merge while you are still working.
- A short playbook. Written for your product, not a generic guide.
- Trained by Labrador. The mark your team earns at the end of the two weeks.
- Someone to ask. We are on call during the two weeks, between meetings too, and for thirty days after we finish: email or Slack, answered within a business day.
What is included in your scope.
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The mini audit
We choose what to test case by case, going after the parts that usually carry problems: forms, carousels, tables, and the flows people use most. It is there to point the two weeks at the right things. It is not a full WCAG conformance audit.
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Tooling setup
Which tools we set up depends on what you have built and how you work. Some are free and some carry their own subscription, which stays yours, and we tell you which is which before anything is installed. We also show your team the manual checks no tool can do.
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Support
Email and Slack during the two weeks and for thirty days after, answered within a business day. Use it for whatever you need: a question about a pattern, a review of a change your developer made, or a fix written by us. Anything large enough to be its own piece of work, we scope with you first.
Two weeks, meeting by meeting.
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Before we start The mini audit
We use your product the way people with disabilities use it: with a screen reader, with only a keyboard, zoomed right in. No meetings yet. By day one we know where it stands.
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Week 1 Findings and the design side
We start by presenting the mini audit we do of your product. That first meeting is an hour with the whole team: what we found, what you are working on now, and what to fix first. Later in the week, ninety minutes with your designer on the screens they are working on, and what to check before handing them off.
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Week 2 The development side
Two meetings with your developer: ninety minutes on the common issues, on their own components, then an hour walking through the pull request that installs the checks. And a 45-minute wrap-up with everyone: the playbook, what to do next, and how an audit works later if you want one. After that, thirty days of email or Slack questions, answered within a business day.
Who this is for.
- Fewer than ten full-time-equivalent people
- Incorporated or launched within the past three years
- No more than $1 million in outside capital raised
Past any of those and this is not the right fit. A full audit is the better buy, and we will say so rather than sell you this. The $1,500 covers one or two people and one product. Bigger teams, or more than one product, get a fixed price before we start, never after.
Trained by Labrador.
Trained by
Labrador
Finish the two weeks and your team gets the mark: a dated summary of what your designer and developer covered, and a badge for your site, your deck, or your careers page. It is something to show a customer who asks what you are doing about accessibility, and something to show the next engineer you hire.
It says your team was trained. It does not say your product passes, and we will not let it be used that way. When you need that claim, you need a full audit or a VPAT.
Who joins your team.
Grant leads it. Shadab joins for the development side, Sam for the design side, and some meetings you get all three.
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Grant Broome
Co-founder, CEO, Audit Orchestrator
Grant has spent more than twenty years in accessibility consulting, for the English Premier League, the BBC, the NHS, and Bentley among others. He leads our audit practice, so the mini audit and the playbook are his.
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Shadab Saifi
Co-founder, CTO, Senior Auditor
Shadab has done this for almost ten years, for governments, hospitals, banks, and software companies. He is a full stack developer himself and holds the three senior IAAP certifications, so your developer gets straight answers.
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Sam Donnelly
Co-founder, COO, Senior Auditor
Sam built the Labrador platform, the tool our audits run on. Globally certified in accessibility since 2021, he has directed accessibility for a digital agency with around forty clients and audited across many sectors. He started out as a designer, so your designer gets someone who speaks their language.
When you outgrow this.
When your product settles down and a customer or a procurement team asks for proof, that is when a full audit or a VPAT (the report procurement teams ask for) makes sense. If you have done the two weeks, the audit is 15% off, and the people doing it already know your product.
Talk to us first.
A 20-minute call to see if this fits: what you have built, who is on the team, and when you would want to start. You pick a European or US time. If you would rather see a number first, ask for a quote and we will send a fixed price within two business days.