Section 508 & WCAG audits for government websites.
US federal, state, and local government sites are bound by Section 508 (Refresh 2017) — and increasingly by ADA Title II as municipal sites face suits. AccessProof scans your portal against WCAG 2.2 AA, Section 508, and EN 301 549 in a single audit, with PDFs admissible in administrative proceedings.
Accessibility risks specific to Government.
Section 508 procurement gate
New tools and contractor deliverables must meet Section 508 — but procurement teams rarely have an audit pipeline. AccessProof audits the public-facing portion of any vendor's product in minutes and produces the procurement evidence agencies need.
Legacy CMS with structural a11y debt
State and local government sites running aging CMS platforms (older Drupal, OpenText, Sitecore, in-house) accumulate accessibility debt invisibly. A baseline audit usually surfaces 500-2,000 issues across the site — most clustered in a few templates that can be remediated as a batch.
PDF documents and forms
Government sites host massive PDF libraries — most uploaded over decades and never audited. AccessProof flags the inaccessible-PDF link patterns on web pages and reports counts; PDF remediation itself remains a separate workflow.
Multi-language compliance
Federal and many state sites publish in multiple languages. AccessProof scans each language version independently — `lang` attribute presence, screen-reader pronunciation, content-equivalence across versions are all reportable.
Citizen-facing forms (tax, permits, benefits)
Government forms — for tax filing, permit applications, benefits enrollment — are often the most-used and least-accessible part of the site. Each unlabeled input is a Section 508 violation the agency can be cited for.
No defensible audit trail in litigation
Municipal sites face ADA Title II actions; federal agencies face administrative review. Without timestamped, dated audit records, the agency cannot demonstrate "ongoing remediation efforts" — the standard that affects penalty severity.
What regulators expect from Government.
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, as updated in the 2017 Refresh, requires US federal agencies and contractors to make ICT (information and communication technology) accessible. The technical standard is WCAG 2.0 Level A and AA, harmonized with EN 301 549 (EU). AccessProof scans against WCAG 2.2 (a superset) and surfaces Section 508-mapped violations explicitly.
ADA Title II applies to US state and local government services, including websites. The DOJ's 2024 Title II rulemaking explicitly requires public-entity web content to conform to WCAG 2.1 Level AA, with compliance deadlines staggered by entity size (April 2026 for entities of 50,000+ population; April 2027 for smaller). Audit trails establishing ongoing remediation are central to compliance defense.
Built for the government workflow.
Section 508 + WCAG 2.2 + EN 301 549 in one audit
Every scan cross-maps findings to all three standards. Cite Section 508 in federal contexts, WCAG in court, EN 301 549 in EU procurement — same audit, same evidence.
No JS injected on .gov sites
Many agency policies prohibit third-party JS on production. AccessProof runs externally — no DOM injection, no security review needed for your site.
Multi-site for agency portfolios
Federal agencies and state governments operate dozens of subdomain sites and microsites. Business plan covers unlimited URLs from one dashboard.
Scheduled audits for compliance cadence
Run weekly or daily scans. Archive PDFs as the contemporaneous remediation record DOJ and ADA Title II reviews look for.
API for procurement workflows
Audit vendor deliverables programmatically as part of acquisition review. Block awards on accessibility failures before contract signature.
Free tier for evaluation
$0 plan supports 1 site, 1 monthly scan. Many procurement teams pilot AccessProof on the Free plan before requesting a budget allocation.
From $0 to unlimited sites.
1 site · monthly · HTML
5 sites · weekly · PDF + email
25 sites · daily · API + CI/CD
Unlimited · hourly · branding
Full plan comparison on /pricing.
Government-specific questions.
Is AccessProof FedRAMP authorized?
AccessProof is not currently FedRAMP authorized. Federal agencies subject to FedRAMP requirements typically use AccessProof on non-sensitive public-facing sites or use the Free plan for evaluation. We are tracking FedRAMP Low as a roadmap item — contact [email protected] to express procurement interest.
How does AccessProof handle .gov authentication-protected portals?
Public-facing pages (the typical scope of Section 508 audits for citizen-facing content) are audited directly. For authenticated portals, the typical workflow is to provide a test account with non-sensitive demonstration data; the audit runs through the API with the session token. PII-containing pages should be audited in a staging environment.
Does AccessProof produce a VPAT/ACR for procurement?
AccessProof produces the audit evidence (timestamped PDF, WCAG criterion mapping, per-element selectors) that goes into a VPAT/ACR (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template / Accessibility Conformance Report). Many agencies generate the formal VPAT document themselves using the ITI/INCITS template, pasting in the audit data. We do not currently sell VPAT formatting as a service.
What about Section 504 and other Rehabilitation Act provisions?
Section 504 (program accessibility) is broader than Section 508 (ICT accessibility). AccessProof addresses the digital portion of 504 compliance to the extent it overlaps with 508 / WCAG. Program-level Section 504 obligations — physical facility, document, service-delivery — require separate compliance programs beyond a web audit.
Audit your government site in 42 seconds.
No JS injected. No long demo call. A timestamped report you can defend.