Is your website an ADA lawsuit waiting to happen?
Accessibility complaints and demand letters reach small-business websites in Maryland and Washington, DC as readily as anywhere else. EDG.tech audits, remediates, and maintains websites to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA, the standard courts, regulators, and procurement officers reference, and we hold our own site to it and publish the results.
How it works
Audit.
Automated scans plus a manual keyboard and screen-reader pass against WCAG — you get a prioritized findings report in plain English.
Remediate.
We fix the barriers — contrast, structure, labels, keyboard traps, media alternatives — on your existing site or as part of a rebuild.
Maintain.
Ongoing checks keep new content compliant, with a published accessibility statement your lawyer will appreciate.
What WCAG 2.2 AA means for a small business website.
WCAG is the W3C's accessibility standard, and version 2.2 is the current one. Level AA is the conformance level named in most legal settlements, in federal procurement, and in the Department of Justice's 2024 rule for state and local government websites (which references WCAG 2.1 AA), which is why it is the target for businesses that sell to governments, hospitals, and universities as well as to the public. In practice AA means a site that can be used with a keyboard alone, read by a screen reader in a sensible order, understood without relying on color, paused if it moves, and operated without timed traps or small targets. Most of the failures we find are structural rather than cosmetic: images without text alternatives, form fields without labels, headings out of order, contrast that fails on a phone in daylight, and menus that cannot be reached without a mouse. Most are fixable on the site you have.
An audit runs automated scans against every page and then a manual pass with a keyboard and a screen reader on the pages that matter, because automated tools miss much of what a real user hits. The findings arrive as a plain-English report sorted by what to fix first and who can fix it, and remediation is quoted as a fixed price within two business days. Afterward, ongoing checks keep new content compliant, and you get an accessibility statement to publish, the same kind we publish for our own site.
ADA and WCAG questions.
Does the ADA apply to my small business website?
Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to places of public accommodation, and courts have applied it to the websites of businesses that serve the public. Private businesses have no single federal technical rule to follow, so WCAG 2.2 AA is the standard settlements and demand letters reference. We are not lawyers; we build to the standard your counsel will point to.
How much does an ADA website audit cost?
The free website review includes a first accessibility pass and tells you whether a full audit is needed. The full website audit is $1,500 for sites up to about 30 pages and includes the accessibility findings sorted by who can fix them. Remediation and a rebuild are quoted separately as a fixed price.
Can you fix accessibility on a site EDG.tech did not build?
Yes. Most ADA work is on sites built by someone else. The audit tells you what is fixable in place and what would be cheaper to rebuild, and the audit fee is credited to a rebuild within 30 days.
Do you serve Maryland and Washington, DC businesses in person?
Yes. Audits and remediation are done remotely, and kickoffs and reviews happen at our Gaithersburg or Frederick office or your site for businesses in Gaithersburg, Rockville, Bethesda, Germantown, Washington, DC, and Frederick.
Last reviewed: October 7, 2026
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