A Buyer Wants Your VPAT. Are You Actually Ready for One?
A customer asked for a VPAT / Accessibility Conformance Report, the EU's European Accessibility Act deadline hit, or an accessibility clause is blocking a deal. Before you sign anything you can't stand behind, get a senior engineer's honest read on what a defensible WCAG 2.2 AA VPAT would take. Free — and no “certification” theater.
$1M
FTC fine against the largest accessibility-overlay vendor for false WCAG compliance claims. FTC, 2025
~22.6%
of H1-2025 US web-accessibility lawsuits targeted sites that had already installed an overlay widget. UsableNet, 2025
Get your free VPAT gap read
Tell us what's forcing this. A senior engineer replies within 2 business days.
The 6 Things a VPAT Lives or Dies On
A VPAT/ACR is only as good as the product behind it. These are the areas a buyer's security or legal team scrutinises — and the ones that quietly fail. We check each and rate it honestly.
WCAG 2.1 / 2.2 AA coverage
The success criteria a VPAT/ACR actually reports against — and which ones your product currently fails.
Keyboard operability
Whether every flow works without a mouse — the single most common reason a VPAT falls apart under scrutiny.
Screen-reader support
How your core journeys behave in VoiceOver / NVDA / TalkBack — names, roles, and states that assistive tech relies on.
Contrast & non-text
Text and UI contrast against the AA minimums (4.5:1 and 3:1) — cheap to fail, cheap to fix, always checked.
Your existing VPAT/ACR
If you already have one, whether it's audit-backed and defensible — or a blank template that's a liability if a buyer's team reads it.
Which law forces you
Section 508 procurement, the EU's EAA / EN 301 549, or a demand letter — so the fix targets what your buyer or regulator actually requires.
Are you close to a VPAT? Find out right now
Six quick questions across the areas a conformance report covers. You'll get an instant red / amber / green read — then, if you want, a senior engineer confirms it against your real product for free.
Prior audit
Has your product ever been tested against WCAG 2.1 / 2.2 AA by someone who knows it?
Instant & private — nothing is stored.
What You Get Back
A written gap read
Plain-English: where your product stands against WCAG 2.2 AA and what a defensible VPAT/ACR would require.
Red / amber / green by area
Each area scored so you can see at a glance what's blocking a conformance report.
Your blockers, ranked
The specific issues that would sink the VPAT first — explained so a non-engineer can act on them.
An honest path to the VPAT
Whether you need verification, targeted remediation, or a fuller fix — with a rough fixed price if you want to act.
The gap read is your free diagnosis — what's blocking a defensible VPAT and how serious each blocker is. If you decide to act, the next step is fixed-price remediation of the real code plus an audit-backed VPAT/ACR you own — never a certificate, never an overlay. No obligation.
Our honest promise
If you're closer than you think, we'll tell you — sometimes the honest answer is “you need verification and a VPAT, not remediation.” We don't sell certificates, we don't sell overlays, and we don't invent work. We'd rather give you a straight answer than a report you can't defend.
VPAT Gap Check — Frequently Asked Questions
Find out what stands between you and the VPAT
It takes two minutes to request, it costs nothing, and you'll get an honest answer from a senior engineer. Prefer to talk it through first? Book a free 30-min call instead.