Product
Accessibility & Web Performance Roadmap
Achieve compliance, remove barriers for your users, and meet hit AU & NZ web standards.
Web accessibility is no longer a checkbox exercise or an optional design trend — it is a strict legal mandate across Oceania. If you are a government agency, council, utility provider, or enterprise operating in Australia or New Zealand, your platforms are legally required to meet rigid digital standards.
Features
Deliverables & Impact
Certified Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR)
Rigorous, evidence-based testing benchmarked directly against WCAG 2.2 AA and AS EN 301 549 specifications. This satisfies federal, state, and local government mandates for a recent, authoritative Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR), providing your risk management, legal, and procurement panels with immediate, vetted proof.
Interactive Accessibility Roadmap
Discovered defects are compiled into a prioritized, developer-focused engineering queue. This satisfies the strict government requirements for a formal Accessibility Roadmap, clearly outlining the impact of existing barriers, concrete timelines for technical remediation, and safe intermediary plans for alternative public access.
Multi-Tiered QA Verification & System Testing
Our diagnostics pipeline mirrors public sector procurement checklists by combining automated programmatic code scans with rigorous human validation. We parse source code at scale to catch systemic, multi-page defects while validating rendering integrity across a cross-browser matrix.
Assistive Technology & Inclusive Testing Matrix
To verify true functional performance, we analyze core user pathways using native assistive environments. Our testing protocols validate keyboard-only navigation pathways, focus indicators, and screen reader interactions (including NVDA, JAWS, and VoiceOver) to catch the critical barriers automation misses.
Core Web Vitals & Platform Health Audit
A deep-dive across your site’s frontend architecture, Core Web Vitals, and asset configuration to ensure equitable performance on all devices. We target heavy client-side scripts and unoptimised code to boost load speeds for regional and mobile-first citizens.
Executive & Technical Reporting
A dual-layer output providing a high-level strategic overview for executive directors, ministers, and council boards, backed by absolute, evidence-driven code locations and line-by-line defect mappings for your developers.
Digital Accessibility Statement Hub
An elegant, compliant footer module that connects your platform directly to a live, public-facing compliance summary. This feature allows your agency to transparently communicate current accessibility milestones, list known legacy constraints (such as PDFs or complex maps), and provide an explicit, direct digital feedback loop for citizens with disabilities.
Use Cases
Technical Scenarios &
Implementations
Preparing for an internal compliance review or regulatory audit
Your organization needs a transparent, independent, and completely accurate assessment of your current accessibility posture before submitting reporting to digital authorities.
Inheriting or launching a platform that must hit public-sector procurement rules
You are winning public sector contracts or shipping a major update and must strictly guarantee compliance with AS EN 301 549 or NZ Govt Standard 1.2 from day one.
Overhauling a legacy application showing its age
A messy frontend architecture is causing both assistive-technology failures and sluggish load times. We help you clean the codebase and systematically resolve both bottlenecks at once.
Process
Delivery Roadmap
Full platform evaluation
Comprehensive scoping and assessment conducted across your critical templates, primary user journeys, and core entry pages.
Automated and manual diagnostics
Deployment of specialised, industry-standard auditing tools paired with direct, human-driven verification—including screen readers and keyboard-only pathways—to isolate systemic performance and accessibility defects.
Defect prioritisation and reporting
Compilation of a structured ledger classifying every discovered issue by engineering severity, customer impact, and the underlying code footprint.
Actionable remediation guidance
Provision of precise, developer-focused code recommendations and clear engineering steps required to resolve each identified bottleneck efficiently.
Technical walkthrough and review
Delivery of a dedicated session with your engineering or product team to review the core findings, interpret technical logs, and clarify the necessary remediation steps.
Predictable & Transparent Plans
Free
A performance & accessibility taster
- Discovery • One 1-hour call
- Sample finding • One representative finding from a key page
Starter
A focused audit of a single site or product
- Coverage • One site or product, core templates and primary user journeys
- Method depth • Automated scans + targeted manual interaction testing
- Deliverable • Prioritised report with health scores, severity ratings, and remediation guidance
- Walkthrough • A session with your engineering team to review the findings
Business
A deeper audit with full WCAG 2.2 AA conformance evidence
- Coverage • Multiple sites or a deeper page set, multi-template, multi-journey
- Method depth • Full automated + deep manual interaction testing (screen reader, keyboard, responsive states)
- Deliverable • Full WCAG 2.2 AA conformance evidence + prioritised remediation queue
- Walkthrough • Engineering walkthrough + an executive briefing for stakeholders
FAQs
Common Questions
What exact standards does this roadmap evaluate against?
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We evaluate against the unified global benchmark Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA. This audit is explicitly structured to satisfy both Australia’s AS EN 301 549 procurement standard and the New Zealand Government Web Accessibility Standard 1.2 framework.
Why can’t we just use an automated scanning tool or an accessibility overlay?
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Automated tools only catch a minority of issues, and generic javascript overlays frequently make websites *worse* for screen-reader users, creating an even greater legal risk. True compliance requires robust semantic HTML, accessible patterns, and manual verification.
Does this audit include native iOS and Android mobile applications?
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Yes. Both the Australian AS EN 301 549 framework and the latest updates to the New Zealand Digital Accessibility mandates cover mobile applications, documents, and web portals. We can scope your roadmap to evaluate both web and native mobile apps.
How long does the audit process take, and what do you need from us?
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A standard roadmap takes 2 to 4 weeks depending on the scale and complexity of your digital platforms. All we need to begin is access to your staging environments, design systems, or public URLs — zero engineering overhead is required from your internal team during our assessment.
Proof
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