A Named, Certified Evaluator
Procurement asks who evaluated your product and what credentials they hold. Your report names him, with a federal certification number you can check.
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The Audit That Closes Enterprise and Government Deals
Manual Section 508 and WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.2 AA audits by a DHS-certified Trusted Tester. Flat fees from $1,600, and your signed VPAT/ACR on a date committed at signing, from day 10. You do not need a clean product to file one.
Judge the work before you call: read the sample VPAT/ACR and the sample remediation plan, both published in full.
What Procurement Is Asking For
When a software company sells to a government agency, a hospital system, or a Fortune 500, the buyer’s procurement team almost always asks:
“When was your last accessibility audit? Where is your VPAT?”
A VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) is the standard framework for documenting how a product meets accessibility guidelines. The completed document is called an Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR). Without one, deals stall in procurement, often indefinitely. Most software companies don’t have one and don’t have the in-house expertise to produce one.
Harbor handles the entire process, from first assessment to a finished compliance document. If a deal is sitting on the other side of this document, the fee is a small fraction of it.
Day 10Committed at Signing
Flat FeeOne Invoice, No Surprises
From $1,600Published, Per Template Count
Flat fees from $1,600, fixed in writing before you commit. See the pricing.
Sound Familiar?
- A government RFP requires accessibility documentation you don't have
- An enterprise buyer asked "where's your VPAT?" and you didn't have an answer
- A letter or complaint about accessibility has arrived
- Your existing VPAT is outdated or was generated by an automated scan
- You're expanding into government, healthcare, or higher-education markets
- You sell into the EU and the European Accessibility Act now applies to you
Start with the page that matches your situation: Section 508, VPAT & ACR, ADA compliance, or European Accessibility Act.
What Makes Harbor Different
A Delivery Date, Committed
The document does not wait on your engineers. Day 10 on a Focused engagement, day 14 on Standard, fixed at signing and backed by automatic late-delivery credits.
One Flat Fee, Fixed in Writing
One invoice. The price agreed at scoping is the price you pay at delivery, with nothing billed separately.
Every Template Tested by Hand
A scanner can decide about six of the 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA criteria on its own. Every template here is tested by hand, with a keyboard and a screen reader.
Finished VPAT Included
Formatted for publication and included in the fee. It is the deliverable you are buying.
Fixes, Not Just Findings
Every finding carries the before-and-after code, grouped by root cause so one broken component is one ticket instead of nineteen. Read the actual plan before you hire us.
What’s Included
DHS Trusted Tester certified auditing, the federal government's own Section 508 test methodology
Every failure reproduced by hand before it is written down, never lifted from an unverified scan
Initial audit plus follow-up reviews of affected pages (2 on Focused, 3 on Standard and Professional, 5 on Enterprise)
Visual fix guides with annotated screenshots, and before-and-after code for every finding
A publishable accessibility statement on the W3C WAI model
Up to 90 days of post-engagement email support
Answers Buyers Look Up Before They Ask for a Quote
The questions a procurement team, a security reviewer or a public-sector buyer asks first, answered in plain language.
- How to Fill Out a VPAT 2.5: The Template, Section by Section
- VPAT vs ACR: What’s the Difference?
- How Buyers Review Your ACR (and Why They Send It Back)
- Is There a Section 508 Certification?
- How to Write an Accessibility Statement (With an Example)
- ADA Title II for Vendors: What Cities, Counties and Colleges Will Ask You For
Quick Answers
- How much does an accessibility audit with a signed VPAT/ACR cost at Harbor?
- A flat fee set by how many unique screens or page templates your product has: $1,600 for up to 5, $3,000 for up to 10, and $4,800 for up to 20. Larger products are $4,800 plus $180 per template beyond 20. Every fee includes the manual audit, the signed ACR in the INT edition (WCAG 2.2 AA, Section 508 and EN 301 549), fix guides and follow-up reviews with a re-issued ACR.
- How fast do I get the signed VPAT/ACR?
- On a date committed at signing: day 10 for up to 5 templates, day 14 for up to 10 and day 21 for up to 20, with automatic credits if it is late.
- Who does the testing?
- A DHS Trusted Tester tests every template by hand with a keyboard and a screen reader, against all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA criteria, and is named on the ACR.
- How do I start?
- Send your product and your deadline. You get the template count and the fee in writing within one business day, and nothing is owed until you sign. A 15-minute call is available if you want one.
Why Accessibility Matters
Procurement is what usually forces the question. The numbers below are the other reason.
- 1 in 4
- adults in the U.S. live with a disability (CDC, 2023)
- 96.3%
- of home pages have detectable WCAG failures (WebAIM Million, 2024)
- $13T
- estimated annual disposable income of people with disabilities globally (Return on Disability, 2020)
Before You Compare Quotes
Four numbers worth knowing if this is your first accessibility audit. None of them are about us.
About 6 of 55
Criteria a Tool Can Decide on Its Own
WCAG 2.2 has 55 Level A and AA success criteria. A scanner can decide about six by itself and help with roughly a third more. The rest turn on judgement it cannot make, such as whether alt text is correct rather than merely present. Automated testing is where an audit starts, not where it ends.
$100 to $350
Per Page, How Most Bill
Per-page pricing is the common model, so your page count drives your fee. A store with 300 products on one layout is 300 pages under that model. Ask any provider whether they count pages or templates before you compare two quotes.
$500 to $12,500
The Published Range
That is the span of publicly listed prices across the providers on our comparison page, and the conformance document is often billed separately on top. Quotes vary this widely because scope definitions do.
28%
Of Vendors Have One Ready
We checked 107 recognizable software companies for a conformance report a buyer could actually read. Fewer than a third could produce one without a form or a sales call. The full finding is published.
New to this? The guide to what an accessibility audit costs explains what you are actually paying for, why two quotes for the same site can differ tenfold, and the questions worth asking any provider, including us.
Competitor figures read from each provider’s own published pages on 2026-08-04, and re-checked quarterly. Our own fees are published on the pricing page, and the template count that sets your tier is confirmed in writing before you commit.
Talk to an Auditor, Not a Sales Team
You will be talking to Andrew Szigety, Harbor’s founder and a DHS Trusted Tester for Web. Fifteen minutes, no pitch, and you can end it owing nothing. We work out what counts as a template, what your deadline needs, and where your product is awkward. A written estimate follows, and the fee is fixed in writing before you commit to anything.
*10 days on a Focused engagement (up to 5 templates), 14 on Standard (up to 10), 21 on Professional. Remediation support continues after the ACR ships and runs on your team’s schedule.