Accessibility evidence for the most-sued sector online.
Financial services are among the most frequent targets of ADA web accessibility lawsuits, and EU consumer banking is explicitly in scope of the European Accessibility Act from June 2025. AccessProof audits your marketing site, online banking, and fintech app on a schedule — court-ready PDFs, a CI gate, and per-criterion WCAG mapping.
Accessibility risks specific to Finance & Fintech.
High lawsuit and demand-letter exposure
Banks, credit unions, and insurers are repeatedly named in ADA Title III website cases. A single inaccessible rate table, calculator, or login flow can trigger a demand letter. The defensible answer is a dated, continuous remediation record — exactly what AccessProof produces.
EAA 2025 covers consumer banking in the EU
The European Accessibility Act makes consumer-facing banking services and e-commerce accessible-by-law from June 2025, referencing EN 301 549 / WCAG. Fintechs selling into the EU need EN 301 549 conformance evidence, not just a US-centric audit.
Complex transactional flows
Account opening (KYC), loan applications, payment forms, and multi-step onboarding are dense with custom inputs, date pickers, OTP fields, and error states — the highest-risk accessibility surface in any product. Keyboard traps and unlabeled fields here block real customers.
Inaccessible statements and disclosures
PDF statements, fee schedules, and legal disclosures are routinely untagged and unreadable by screen readers. WCAG applies to document content, not just HTML, and regulators treat disclosures seriously.
Calculators, charts, and data tables
Mortgage calculators, rate comparisons, and portfolio dashboards rely on color-only signaling and unlabeled charts. Color-contrast and non-text-content failures are nearly universal on financial data visualizations.
Procurement and vendor due diligence
Enterprise and public-sector financial clients increasingly require a VPAT/ACR before signing. Fintech vendors without accessibility evidence stall in security and procurement review. AccessProof's timestamped audits are the foundation a VPAT is built on.
What regulators expect from Finance & Fintech.
In the US, financial institutions' websites are treated as places of public accommodation under ADA Title III in most circuits, and financial services are consistently one of the top sectors for website accessibility litigation. State laws (California Unruh Act, New York Human Rights Law) add overlapping exposure. WCAG 2.2 AA is the de-facto settlement standard.
In the EU, the European Accessibility Act (enforceable June 2025) explicitly covers consumer banking services, e-money, and e-commerce, requiring conformance referenced to EN 301 549 / WCAG 2.x AA. AccessProof scans map to the WCAG criteria underlying both ADA Title III practice and EN 301 549.
Built for the finance & fintech workflow.
Continuous, dated audit trail
Scheduled scans archived as timestamped PDFs give you the contemporaneous remediation record that materially changes the economics of an ADA demand letter. A single annual audit is weak; a continuous record is strong.
ADA + EAA + Section 508 in one scan
Our axe-core 4.9.1 scans cover the WCAG 2.0/2.1/2.2 criteria referenced by ADA practice, EN 301 549 (EAA), and Section 508 — one workflow for US and EU exposure.
Audit logged-in banking flows
Configure a service-account session so the scanner audits authenticated dashboards and transactional flows — where customers actually spend time — not just the logged-out marketing site.
CI/CD gate for regulated releases
Block a deploy when the accessibility score drops below threshold. Catch a regression in the loan-application form before it reaches customers and regulators.
VPAT-ready procurement evidence
Each scan produces per-criterion WCAG citations that paste directly into the ITI VPAT template — the deliverable enterprise and public-sector financial buyers ask for.
No JS injected, security-review friendly
AccessProof never adds runtime code to your app. Zero performance impact and nothing new for your security team to assess — critical in a regulated environment.
From $0 to unlimited sites.
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Finance & Fintech-specific questions.
Why are financial services sued so often for web accessibility?
Financial sites are high-traffic, transactional, and essential — which makes inaccessibility both impactful and easy to demonstrate. Plaintiffs' firms target sectors where barriers are common and consequential. Banking, insurance, and fintech consistently rank among the most-litigated. A continuous, dated WCAG remediation record is the most effective defensive posture.
Does AccessProof help with EAA 2025 for our EU customers?
Yes. The EAA references EN 301 549, which is built on WCAG 2.x AA. AccessProof's axe-core scans map to those criteria and produce timestamped evidence. It does not replace a legal conformance assessment, but it is the technical audit foundation EN 301 549 conformance requires.
Can it audit our online banking behind login?
Yes — for authenticated routes you can configure AccessProof to use a dedicated service-account session token, typically against a test tenant. The scanner audits the same DOM your customers see in online banking, including transactional flows.
What about our PDF statements and disclosures?
AccessProof focuses on web (HTML) accessibility scanning. PDF accessibility is a related but distinct discipline (tagging, reading order, form fields). Our blog covers PDF accessibility, and our reports flag where document downloads exist so you can route them to a PDF remediation workflow.
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