About Us
Who We Are
Access Armada helps small to midsize businesses, nonprofit organizations, and digital agencies achieve ADA compliance for websites, mobile apps, and everything digital. We offer comprehensive accessibility services so that you can provide an equitable accessible experience to everyone .
3 Quick Facts About Access Armada
Mission-Driven
This isn’t just a business. Making the web more accessible for everyone is the right thing to do and we think it should be easier, more widespread, and cost-effective.
Pragmatic
What works best for one site or business isn’t the only way. We know accessibility is a journey. And we celebrate your progress even as we keep our eyes on a goal of full accessibility.
Efficient
We know that budgets aren’t unlimited. We provide a plan tailored to your requirements that prioritizes a high accessibility return on investment.
Our Approach
Start with the highest impact fixes to immediately make things better and reduce your legal risk.
More accessible is better than less. Keep making progress!
Make sustainable change. Support your team in keeping you accessible!
Our Origin Story
We got our start in digital agencies; for more than a decade, we have helped small businesses, nonprofits, startups, big government, Fortune 500 companies, and everything in between to design and build awesome and effective web presences. One day, years ago, we got a call from a longtime client who ran marketing for a midsize furniture chain. She told us that a local law firm had been sending demand letters threatening to sue some of her competitors and she wanted our help to get ahead of it.
We suspect our story is not unique. ADA lawsuits are the way that most people (both agencies and clients) first learn about web accessibility. And our reaction was probably pretty typical.
Our client put her trust in us to ensure that her website was compliant and we did not feel prepared for that responsibility. Our designers and developers had never considered accessibility in building new sites and we weren’t quite sure where or how to start. And we were scared that we wouldn’t be able to do enough to help our client and that we might bear some liability in that situation.
We made it through and learned a lot along the way about how to audit and remediate for accessibility (not to mention how to build things the right way the first time). As the number of federal ADA lawsuits has soared over the past 6 years, more and more companies began reaching out for help auditing their sites.
Our goal is to help build a more accessible web, one site at a time.
We quickly learned a lot about the existing digital accessibility market. Most other firms performing accessibility services were completely specialized and their testing approach seemed targeted to Fortune 500 companies with mature digital practices and willingness to invest up to 6 figures.
Don't get us wrong! Accessibility is important for big business and we are happy to help! But where does that leave companies who care about providing an equitable experience for all of their users but need to find help within their already crowded digital budgets?
This is a big underserved sector of the web!
At any scale, accessibility isn't always easy. And there isn't one line of code that can solve for accessibility in one fell swoop. But we want to help you get there step-by-step.
Access Armada offers cost effective and high impact interventions that can help businesses and organizations of all sizes make measurable progress towards ADA compliance for websites. Our goal is to help build a more accessible web, one site at a time.