// AODA Accessibility Compliance
Is your Ontario website ready for the Dec 31, 2026 AODA deadline?
Get a free accessibility scan of your site — axe + Lighthouse, tested against WCAG 2.0 Level AA — plus a 1-page report showing exactly what your organization owes and a fixed-price path to fix it. No overlays, no $50k quotes, no legal jargon.
Bottom line up front
If you employ 20 or more people in Ontario, you have a government form to sign by December 31, 2026 — and if you employ 50 or more, your website was legally required to be accessible back in 2021. The free scan tells you where you actually stand in about a day.
What you owe — by employee count
No report required
You don't file a compliance report, but Ontario's customer-service accessibility standard still applies — and any user who can't use your site is a live Human Rights exposure.
Must file by Dec 31, 2026
Written accessibility policies, an accessible feedback process, accessible employment practices, and a compliance report filed in Ontario's portal — personally attested by one of your directors.
File + WCAG 2.0 AA website
Everything above, plus your website must conform to WCAG 2.0 Level AA — a requirement in force since January 1, 2021. If you're not conformant, that's existing exposure, not an upcoming deadline.
Employee count includes part-time and seasonal staff — a business with 12 full-time and 40 part-time workers is a 50+ organization.
What the free scan tells you
- Your automated failure count across your key pages (axe-core, WCAG 2.0/2.1 A & AA)
- Your Lighthouse accessibility, performance, SEO and best-practices scores
- The specific issues — contrast, alt text, labels, keyboard traps, headings — in plain English
- Exactly what your organization owes based on your employee count, and by when
- A fixed-price path to conformance, so there are no surprises
The deadline is doing the selling — we just make it specific
Ontario businesses with 20 or more employees must file an accessibility compliance report in the province's online portal by December 31, 2026. Businesses with 50 or more also have to run a website that conforms to WCAG 2.0 Level AA — a rule that has technically been in force since January 2021. Most organizations don't know the threshold counts part-time and seasonal staff, and most have never scanned their own site. Our free scan turns that abstract obligation into a specific, page-by-page list you can actually act on.
The honest middle — no $50k quotes, no fake widgets
Enterprise accessibility firms quote $15,000 to $50,000. At the other end, "accessibility overlay" widgets sell a $490/year fake fix — the kind the U.S. FTC fined accessiBe $1,000,000 for in 2025 for claiming it made sites compliant. Overlays don't fix the underlying code and are disliked by the screen-reader users they claim to help. We sit in the honest middle: real remediation done in your code, by a real developer, at a fair fixed price — and we'll never sell you a widget.
What we can and can't say
We measure your site against WCAG 2.0 Level AA and issue a conformance statement dated to the day we test it. There is no such thing as an "AODA certification," and no honest firm can "guarantee compliance" — automated tools catch only a third to a half of all issues, which is why a real audit includes manual screen-reader and keyboard testing. We implement a technical standard and prepare your documentation; we are an independent digital studio, not a law firm, and we don't give legal advice.
AODA compliance FAQs
Ontario businesses with 20 or more employees must file an accessibility compliance report in the province's online reporting portal by December 31, 2026. The report is a director/officer attestation — someone at the company personally certifies it is accurate. Reports filed any other way than the portal are not accepted.
Find out where you stand — free.
One scan, one page, one business day. No cost, no obligation, and no widget.
Get my free scanWEFIRSTWEB is an independent digital studio, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice. Accessibility conformance is measured against WCAG 2.0 Level AA as tested on a specific date; automated testing does not detect every issue and does not constitute certification or a guarantee of compliance.