What does a WCAG 2.2 AA audit cost for a normal corporate website?

For an SME website with up to 30 pages the full WCAG 2.2 AA audit is €2,480 net as a fixed price. It includes the assessment of all level A and AA success criteria per view, checks of keyboard operation and screen reader output, the prioritized audit report with solution code and the conformance matrix that underpins the accessibility statement. Whether the BFSG may apply to you, we first assess free of charge in the initial consultation. If you then want to know where your website stands, start with the BFSG quick check for €490 net, which is credited against a later full audit.

Why does it say "from" in front of most prices?

Because the testing effort depends on scope, and we do not want to name a figure that has to be corrected upwards later. The "from" price applies to the described standard case — for the audit, for instance, a website up to 30 pages with typical forms. After the free review you receive a concrete figure that is binding for the agreed scope. If the scope changes during the project we discuss it beforehand instead of billing afterwards.

Do you switch to time-and-materials if the project takes longer than planned?

No. The agreed fixed price applies to the scope described in the offer, regardless of how many hours we actually need. Only if the scope itself changes — additional page types, a new process, another system — do we prepare a supplementary offer. This arrangement protects both sides: you from an open-ended invoice, us from an unlimited growing scope.

Is the accessibility statement included in the audit price?

The basis for it is included in the audit and complete packages: the conformance matrix across all tested success criteria, from which the conformance status to be declared follows. The fully worded statement per BFSG Section 14 including the feedback mechanism is produced at a fixed price of €390 net; the complete package includes it. The annual update costs €149 net and is commissioned individually each time; it is not a subscription.

Is the complete package worth it compared with separate audit and remediation?

That depends on whether you have your own development team. If your team can implement the findings itself, the stand-alone audit from €2,480 net is the cheaper route — the report contains a concrete solution approach with a code example for every finding. If no team is available or time is short, the complete package from €4,900 net saves the handover effort, because testing and fixing are in one hand and the re-test is already included.

Which ongoing costs should I expect after the project?

Two items are plannable. First, ongoing monitoring from €49 net per month for regular scans and regression alerts; updating the statement is not included and costs €149 net per update. Second, the re-audit, which we recommend roughly annually and after every major relaunch; in premium monitoring from €349 net per month it is included, otherwise it costs the same as a regular audit from €2,480 net. A trained editorial and development team noticeably reduces this follow-up effort.

Pricing for BFSG audits and remediation — fixed figures instead of day rates

Accessibility can be budgeted. The BFSG quick check costs €490, the full WCAG 2.2 AA audit at €2,480, the BITV assessment per EN 301 549 for public bodies at €2,980, audit and remediation as a complete package at €4,900 — all net plus VAT. This page explains what each package contains, which factors drive the effort and how a short review turns into a binding fixed-price offer.

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In short and in plain language

This page shows our prices for accessibility. Accessible means that all people can use a website.

There is a short quick check to start with. There is a full audit against the WCAG. These are rules for accessible websites. And there is a package with audit and fixes.

You can also book single services. Examples are the check for public bodies against the BITV, the accessibility statement, accessible PDFs and easy-to-read texts. We can also keep checking your site.

We work with fixed prices. You get the price in writing before the work starts. The page also says what makes the work larger or smaller.

The first talk is free. Write to us or give us a call.

Key figures

WCAG 2.2

benchmark at level AA in the fixed-price audit

EN 301 549

European standard as audit basis

Per view

assessment of all level A and AA criteria

Solution code

for every finding in the audit report

Full WCAG 2.2 AA audit

from €2,480 fixed price net

A fixed price before the project starts instead of open hourly billing
All level A and AA success criteria assessed per view, with a prioritized list of findings
Audit and remediation as a complete package from €4,900
Ongoing assurance through BFSG monitoring from €49 per month

Request a free consultation WCAG audit in detail

SME website up to 30 pages, including the conformance matrix that underpins the accessibility statement per BFSG Section 14. The entry point via the BFSG quick check costs €490 and is fully credited against a later full audit. We assess our own website against WCAG 2.2 AA ourselves; status and known limitations are set out in our accessibility statement.

Prices as of October 2026. Ongoing services are booked individually and can be canceled with one month's notice to the end of the month; there is no minimum term.

What does accessibility cost? It is a fair question, because since 28 June 2025 digital accessibility has been a legal obligation for many providers — and obligations need a budget. We therefore answer it with a fixed price you have in writing before the project starts, not with a day rate. This page opens up the calculation: which services sit in which package, which six factors move the effort up or down, and where the limits of a flat rate are. Which obligations apply to you at all is covered on the page about BFSG requirements; how an audit works methodically is described on the page about the WCAG 2.2 audit. An overview of the full service range is available under services.

Why We Work With Fixed Prices

For most companies an accessibility project is a one-off undertaking without any benchmark. Anyone who has never commissioned a WCAG audit cannot judge how many person-days are appropriate. That is precisely why time-and-materials billing is unfavourable here: it shifts the entire estimation risk onto the party that knows the least about the audit process. We reverse that. After a short, free review of your website we define the audit scope — which page types, which processes, which documents — and name a price that does not change as long as the scope does not change. You budget one figure, not a range.

The second reason is about substance. An audit billed by the hour has an economic incentive to take a long time. An audit at a fixed price has an incentive to be systematic and reproducible. Our audit therefore follows a fixed sequence: measurement, assessment of all success criteria per view, keyboard and screen reader output, prioritization by severity. That sequence can be planned — otherwise we could not name a fixed price. Rule checks alone do not detect all conformance failures (WebAIM Million 2026); the plannable but indispensable part is the assessment of each criterion, and exactly that part sits inside the fixed price.

What a fixed price does not mean: that every project costs the same. A shop with a configurator, customer accounts and three payment routes requires a different testing effort than a corporate website with twelve pages and one contact form. The packages below cover the standard case. Anything beyond that we calculate after a review — also as a fixed price, just with an individually determined figure.

The three fixed-price packages at a glance

All prices net plus VAT. Every package starts with a free initial consultation and a short review; after that you receive a binding fixed-price offer. Larger websites, shops and portals are calculated by page type and process.

BFSG quick check

The fast baseline: where does your website stand on accessibility, and where is the most urgent need for action?

€490 one-off net

Check against the WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria
Home page and one business-critical process in scope
Short report with the most critical findings
Adds test findings to the free initial BFSG assessment from the first consultation (not legal advice)
Fully credited against a later full audit

Request quick check

Recommended

WCAG 2.2 AA audit

The full review for SME websites up to 30 pages — with the conformance status documented per success criterion.

from €2,480 fixed price net

All level A and AA success criteria assessed per view
Keyboard without a mouse and screen reader output
Every finding with severity, criterion and solution code
Conformance matrix as the basis for BFSG Section 14
Prioritized audit report with a joint walkthrough

Request fixed-price audit

Audit and remediation

Testing and fixing from one source: we do not just hand over a findings list, we close the findings in the code.

from €4,900 complete package net

Full WCAG 2.2 AA audit included
Remediation directly in the existing source code instead of a relaunch
Remediation only, without an audit, from €2,480 (up to 15 pages)
Before/after documentation per remediated barrier
Re-test and accessibility statement included

Request complete package

All prices net plus VAT. Additional fixed prices: BITV assessment per EN 301 549 from €2,980 (up to 11 views, prices as of October 2026), accessibility statement €390, plain language €89, easy-to-read language €119 per standard page, accessible PDFs from €4.90 per page (minimum fee €149 per document), BFSG monitoring from €49 per month. Details on the respective service pages.

What Drives the Effort: Six Factors

It is not the number of products or blog posts that drives the effort, but the number of distinct page types and the complexity of the interactive processes. A website with 400 near-identical product pages is tested by pattern, not 400 times individually. A website with 20 pages but eight different templates, one multi-step form and an embedded booking widget causes considerably more testing work. In practice these six factors determine the price range.

Page types, not page counts

We test a representative sample: one representative per template. Ten templates mean more effort than a thousand detail pages from the same template. That is why we ask about the number of layouts in the first conversation, not the number of URLs.

Interactive processes

Form journeys, cart, checkout, login, appointment booking and configurators have to be walked end to end — with a keyboard, with a view to screen reader output and with faulty input. Every additional multi-step process is its own testing block in the offer.

State of the source code

Semantic HTML with a clean heading structure can be improved selectively. A front end that builds buttons from div elements and manages focus in JavaScript requires structural work. For remediation this factor is the biggest lever in either direction.

Third-party building blocks

Payment forms, review widgets, maps, chat windows and cookie banners often sit outside your own code. They still have to be tested and documented, and coordinating with the provider takes time. How responsibility is shared is covered in the article on third-party widgets.

Documents and media

PDF documents, videos and podcasts fall under the requirements too. They are not part of the website audit but are calculated separately: accessible PDFs from €4.90 per page, captions and transcripts by the length of the material.

Re-testing and verification

After remediation every finding is checked again, plus a sample for newly introduced barriers. This re-test is part of the complete package; after a stand-alone audit you book it separately. On an ongoing basis it is covered by BFSG monitoring.

How page types and processes become a fixed price

Fixed-price calculation · WCAG 2.2 AA

Scope sets the price — not the clock

Example review of a corporate website with a contact form and an application form

Scope after review

Page types (templates)9

Multi-step processes2

Third-party blocks3

PDF documentsseparate

Distribution of testing effort

Assessment per criterion46 %

Keyboard and screen reader output27 %

Report writing18 %

Measurement9 %

What the fixed price covers

All level A and AA success criteria, assessed per view

Keyboard and screen reader output on the critical path

Prioritized audit report with solution code per finding

Not included: PDF remediation, captions, editorial work

Fixed-price auditfrom €2,480 net

Offer after reviewbinding, in writing

Example calculation logic for an SME website — scope and effort values are illustrative, the actual fixed price is set after the review.

For budget planning, three typical effort profiles can be distinguished. The overview below shows how to recognize which profile you are in and which price range comes with it. These figures do not replace an offer, but they help you budget realistically in advance.

Characteristic	Corporate website	Online shop	Portal with login
Page types in scope	8 to 15	15 to 25	after review
Multi-step processes	Contact, search, newsletter	Filters, cart, checkout	Registration, login, self-service
Keyboard and screen reader output	all processes in scope	all processes in scope	all processes in scope, including after login
Price range audit	from €2,480 fixed price	from €2,480, larger shops after review	individual fixed-price offer
Price range complete package	from €4,900	after review	after review

Individual Services at a Fixed Price

Not every project starts with a full audit. Some companies have already tested and only need the accessibility statement; public bodies need evidence under BITV 2.0; others must deliver a stack of forms as accessible PDF documents at short notice, or provide a landing page in easy-to-read language. All of the following services can be booked individually and come with fixed prices.

How to read these prices

All amounts stated are net prices plus statutory VAT. "From" prices denote the entry point for the described standard case; the binding amount appears in the written offer you receive before the project starts. Travel costs only arise for explicitly agreed on-site appointments. The initial consultation and the review that precedes the offer are free of charge.

From the First Conversation to a Binding Offer

Step 1

Initial consultation — free, by phone or video

We assess against the criteria of the Act whether and to what extent the BFSG may apply to you (not legal advice), which deadlines matter and what your goal is: solid evidence, concrete remediation, or both. What follows is an assessment, not a sales process.

Need a figure for the budget, not a range?

Send us your website URL. You will receive an initial expert assessment of scope, duration and price range — free of charge and without obligation.

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Re-testing: What Costs Remain After the Audit

Accessibility is not a state that is reached once and then preserved. Every change to a website can introduce new barriers: a new content element without alt text, a theme update that removes the focus outline, a newly embedded widget without keyboard access. An honest price statement therefore has to include the part that arises after the project. It is considerably smaller than the initial effort, but it is not zero.

Concretely that means two things. The re-test after remediation is included in the complete package. Beyond that we recommend, first, ongoing monitoring from €49 net per month covering regular scans and alerts on regressions and providing the basis for the accessibility statement; updating the statement costs €149 net per update. Second, a full re-audit roughly every twelve months and additionally after every major relaunch, system change or new feature area. In premium monitoring from €349 net per month this annual full audit is already included; otherwise you book it as a regular WCAG 2.2 audit from €2,480 net.

Anyone who wants to reduce follow-up costs permanently invests in their own editorial and development teams. A team that knows what a useful alt text looks like and why a heading level should not be skipped produces considerably fewer new findings. That is exactly the purpose of our training: it moves accessibility from after-the-fact correction into the ongoing process — and thereby moves budget from repair into creation.

What the Price Does Not Include

Transparency also means naming the limits of a flat rate. The following items are deliberately not included in the fixed prices of the three main packages, because their effort cannot be sensibly generalized. They can be added at any time — each with its own fixed price or after a review.

Editorial work on your content — we point out which alt texts are missing or unusable, but we only write them on explicit instruction.
Remediation of PDF documents — documents are a separate service from €4.90 net per page, independent of the website audit.
Captions, transcripts and audio description — the effort depends on the length of the material and is calculated after review.
Design and relaunch work — we work in the existing code; a new design is a project of its own.
Licences and third-party costs — for example licences for staging or test environments on your side or fees charged by external providers.
Fixes inside third-party systems — we document barriers in embedded payment or booking forms; only the provider can change them.

Cost, Benefit and Exemptions: Three Articles

How the investment in an audit can be assessed in business terms is covered in the article on the cost and return of an accessibility audit. Whether you are affected at all as a micro-enterprise is explained in the article on the micro-enterprise exemption. And when a measure may be documented as a disproportionate burden is described in the article on Section 17 BFSG. Which service sits behind which price is set out on the services page; general questions are collected on our FAQ page.

Key Points at a Glance

Three fixed-price packages: BFSG quick check €490, WCAG 2.2 AA audit from €2,480, audit and remediation from €4,900 — each net plus VAT.
The quick check is fully credited against a later full audit
Effort is driven by page types, interactive processes, code quality, third-party blocks, documents and the re-test — not by the raw page count
Individual services at fixed prices: BITV assessment per EN 301 549 from €2,980, accessibility statement €390, accessible PDFs from €4.90 per page, easy-to-read language €119 per standard page, monitoring from €49 per month
Initial consultation and review are free of charge; the binding fixed-price offer arrives in writing before the project starts

Frequently Asked Questions About Pricing and Effort

How the website of a rehabilitation clinic could look

The draft shows structure and handling: departments to switch through, the path from medical report to arrival, a weekly plan and stated details on step-free access. The clinic in it is invented.

Draft

Rehabilitation clinic

Rehab clinic with application path and verifiable details

A draft for a rehabilitation clinic: three departments can be switched through, and the path from the medical report through the application to the funding body up to the arrival day is set out in four steps. A week in the house is shown as a daily plan, alongside rooms, visiting hours and support for relatives. The accessibility section states door widths, lift dimensions and call systems instead of a blanket assurance.

DepartmentsApplication pathWeekly planVerifiable measurements

Illustrative layout drafts. The businesses shown are fictitious; these are not client projects.

Pricing for BFSG audits and remediation — fixed figures instead of day rates

In short and in plain language

Key figures

Why We Work With Fixed Prices

The three fixed-price packages at a glance

BFSG quick check

WCAG 2.2 AA audit

Audit and remediation

What Drives the Effort: Six Factors

Page types, not page counts

Interactive processes

State of the source code

Third-party building blocks

Documents and media

Re-testing and verification

How page types and processes become a fixed price

Individual Services at a Fixed Price

From the First Conversation to a Binding Offer

Initial consultation — free, by phone or video

Review — we look at your site ourselves

Fixed-price offer — one figure, in writing, with a scope description

Delivery — audit, report, handover

Remediation and re-test — optional or in the complete package

Need a figure for the budget, not a range?

Re-testing: What Costs Remain After the Audit

What the Price Does Not Include

Cost, Benefit and Exemptions: Three Articles

Key Points at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions About Pricing and Effort

How the website of a rehabilitation clinic could look

Rehab clinic with application path and verifiable details

Pricing for BFSG audits and remediation — fixed figures instead of day rates

In short and in plain language

Key figures

Why We Work With Fixed Prices

The three fixed-price packages at a glance

BFSG quick check

WCAG 2.2 AA audit

Audit and remediation

What Drives the Effort: Six Factors

Page types, not page counts

Interactive processes

State of the source code

Third-party building blocks

Documents and media

Re-testing and verification

How page types and processes become a fixed price

Individual Services at a Fixed Price

BITV assessment per EN 301 549 — from €2,980 net

Accessibility statement per BFSG Section 14 — €390 net

Accessible PDFs per PDF/UA — from €4.90 per page

Easy-to-read and plain language — €119 and €89 per standard page

BFSG monitoring — from €49 per month

Screen reader output — included in the audit, separate by scope

Training and workshops — offer by format and group size

From the First Conversation to a Binding Offer

Initial consultation — free, by phone or video

Review — we look at your site ourselves

Fixed-price offer — one figure, in writing, with a scope description

Delivery — audit, report, handover

Remediation and re-test — optional or in the complete package

Need a figure for the budget, not a range?

Re-testing: What Costs Remain After the Audit

What the Price Does Not Include

Cost, Benefit and Exemptions: Three Articles

Key Points at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions About Pricing and Effort

What does a WCAG 2.2 AA audit cost for a normal corporate website?

Why does it say "from" in front of most prices?

Do you switch to time-and-materials if the project takes longer than planned?

Is the accessibility statement included in the audit price?

Is the complete package worth it compared with separate audit and remediation?

Which ongoing costs should I expect after the project?

How the website of a rehabilitation clinic could look

Rehab clinic with application path and verifiable details