Scanning …
Reaching your homepage…
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What we found — and how to fix it
Plain English, ordered by what matters most. Each maps to a specific WCAG 2.1 AA requirement your site must meet under the DOJ rule. Methodology
Unlock the full report — free
Get every issue with fixes, the page-by-page breakdown, your PDF document audit, a shareable link, and a printable copy for your council or web vendor.
Document audit (PDFs)
The Title II rule covers documents too — agenda packets, forms, budgets. We pulled a sample of PDFs linked from your pages and checked each for the machine-readable accessibility structure (tags, language, title) the standard requires.
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This scan is the starting line, not the finish.
Automated checks catch roughly a third of WCAG requirements. AccessHawk Monitoring re-scans your entire site weekly, tracks your progress toward your deadline, generates the accessibility statement the rule expects, audits your full document library, and gives your team plain-English fixes — with expert humans behind it. See pricing →
How it works
Built for city administrators, clerks, and communications directors — not just web developers.
We scan the pages residents use
Your homepage, your sitemap, and the high-traffic pages — agendas, services, forms, payments — up to 30 pages checked live against the WCAG 2.1 AA standard named in the DOJ rule, plus a sample of your PDFs.
You get a graded readiness score
One number your council or board can understand, with every issue explained in plain English: what it is, who it locks out, and exactly how to fix it. The scoring formula is public.
You know where you stand
Print it, share the link with your web vendor, or bring in AccessHawk Monitoring to track progress every week until your deadline — and after.
What the free scan checks
More than 25 automated checks mapped to WCAG 2.1 Level AA — the exact standard 28 CFR Part 35 requires — including the two things most free tools skip: color contrast and PDF documents.
- Low color contrast (text vs. background)
- PDF documents: tags, language, OCR
- Images missing alt text
- Form fields without labels
- Links with no accessible name
- Unnamed icon buttons
- Video without captions
- Page language not declared
- Missing or empty page titles
- Untitled embedded frames
- Pinch-to-zoom disabled
- Data tables without headers
- Broken heading structure
- Empty headings
- Auto-playing media
- Timed refresh / redirects
- Controls hidden from screen readers
- Scrolling / blinking content
- Vague “click here” links
- Redundant alt text
- Forced keyboard tab order
- Missing main landmark
- Missing skip-to-content link
- Duplicate element IDs