ADA compliance is now a deadline, not a lawsuit lottery.
The Department of Justice wrote WCAG 2.1 AA into federal rule for every state and local government, HHS did the same for healthcare, and Title III suits against businesses never slowed down. We audit against the real standard, fix the code, and hand you the documentation.
Three rules, one standard
Title II for public entities, Section 504 for healthcare providers taking Medicare or Medicaid, and Title III for businesses open to the public. The courts and the rules all point to the same yardstick: WCAG 2.1 Level AA.
Audits that hold up
Automated scans catch roughly a third of real barriers. We run the scan, then test templates, forms, and flows with a keyboard and a screen reader, and rank every finding by legal exposure and user impact.
Fixed in the code, not covered by a widget
Overlay widgets do not achieve conformance and show up in complaints as evidence, not as a defense. We fix markup, contrast, focus order, forms, and ARIA where the standard measures them.
PDFs, forms, and the paper trail
Priority documents tagged, intake forms rebuilt, an accessibility statement published, and a conformance report you can hand to a regulator, a plaintiff's attorney, or your board.
The clocks, in plain English.
State and local governments: the DOJ's Title II web rule requires WCAG 2.1 AA and originally gave larger entities until April 2026 and smaller ones until April 2027. In April 2026 the DOJ pushed both dates back a year, and the National Federation of the Blind sued to reverse the extension. Colorado did not wait. HB21-1110 has required WCAG 2.1 AA of every Colorado public entity since July 1, 2025, with a $3,500 penalty per violation payable to the person who brings the claim.
Healthcare: the HHS Section 504 rule holds any provider taking Medicare or Medicaid to the same standard, with deadlines in 2027 and 2028 after a similar one-year extension. Private businesses: there is no deadline, because there never was one. Title III suits over inaccessible websites run in the thousands every year, and the typical settlement costs more than the remediation would have.
What it costs.
Every engagement is fixed price and scoped to the size of the web estate. A single-site business audit and remediation typically runs $1,000 to $5,000. A town, school district, or multi-site practice with forms and a PDF library runs larger, and we quote the whole program up front rather than by the hour. It starts with Blueprints at $99: a written read on which rule applies to you, where you stand today, and a fixed plan to get conformant.
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Common questions.
Which ADA rule applies to my organization?
If you are a city, county, school district, transit agency, special district, or public college, Title II applies, and in Colorado HB21-1110 applies on top of it. If you provide healthcare and take Medicare or Medicaid, the HHS Section 504 rule applies. If you are a business open to the public, Title III applies through the courts rather than a rule. Blueprints tells you which, in writing. Your attorney stays the authority.
The federal deadline moved. Can we wait?
We would not. The extension is being challenged in court, private suits continue during the extension, and Colorado's law is already past its deadline with no extension at all. Remediation also takes months for a large estate, so starting a year before the date is on time, not early.
Will an automated scan or an overlay widget get us compliant?
No. Scans find roughly a third of WCAG failures and cannot judge focus order, form logic, or whether alt text is meaningful. Overlays add a script on top of broken code and have been named in complaints rather than preventing them. Conformance requires fixing the underlying site, which is the work we do.
Which rule is your clock?
Blueprints tells you which accessibility rule applies, where your site stands, and what fixing it costs, for $99.