LodestarDigital
ADA website compliance for small business

Is your websiteADA compliant?

Put your address in below. In about ten seconds you will see what a blind or keyboard-only customer runs into on your site, in plain English, and how much of it a demand letter would point at. Free, no signup.

Checks one page at a time. Nothing is saved unless you ask us to follow up.

The Lodestar accessibility toolbar open on a website, showing controls for text size, contrast, colour, reading tools and page structure.
The toolbar every site we work on gets, free. It is live on this page, in the corner.
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19things we check on your page
10sto get your results, free
$0for the accessibility toolbar
AAthe standard courts actually use
Before you trust any score

A free check finds about a third of it.

Anyone selling you a one-click compliance score is selling you something. Here is what a tool can tell you, and what only a person can.

What the free check catches

Photos with no description, form fields with no label, buttons a screen reader reads as nothing, phones that cannot zoom in, menus with no name. These are the exact complaints that get listed in demand letters, and a machine can spot every one of them.

What only a person catches

Can someone actually place an order using only a keyboard? Does your menu read aloud in an order that makes sense? Is the text readable for someone with low vision? Answering those means sitting down with your site and trying, which is what an audit is.

About that accessibility widget

The plugin does not fix your site.

If you have been quoted $49 or $500 a month for an accessibility widget, this is what you would be paying for, and what stays broken underneath it.

Published list prices, September 2026

Traffic bands are the vendors' own
What you get accessiBe UserWay Lodestar
Visitor toolbar From $59 a month, priced on traffic Free tier, or from $49 a month Free, no traffic limit
Automatic code fixes in the browser Included, runs every 24 hours Included on paid plans Not offered, on purpose
Fixes in your actual source code Top tiers and custom work Sold separately This is the service
Manual expert audit Yearly on the $479 a month tier $4,900 to $24,500 Included in the audit price
Ongoing monitoring Included $990 to $10,990 a year Included on retainer
Legal support program Case manager and attorney hours Attorney-led program We are not lawyers and do not pretend to be
Worth knowing before you buy one

In 2025 the Federal Trade Commission ordered accessiBe to pay $1 million over claims that its widget could make any website compliant, and barred the company from repeating them. Plaintiffs' firms have also used the presence of an overlay as evidence that an owner knew about their obligations and paid for a script instead of fixing the site.

An overlay is not worthless. It is a preference tool for visitors, which is why ours is free. It is not a defense.

How this gets fixed

What fixing it actually involves.

No subscription, no badge. Someone goes through the site, changes the code, and writes down what changed.

Audit

Every template tested by hand with a keyboard and a screen reader, plus automated checks across every page. You get a written list of what fails, where, and what it takes to fix, ordered by how much it matters.

Fixes in the code

We make the changes in the site itself: alt text, form labels, focus states, heading structure, contrast, keyboard traps, frame titles. If we built the site, this is already done.

Statement and reporting

A dated accessibility statement on your domain, with a real way for a visitor to report a problem and a record of what you fixed and when. This is the documentation that matters if anyone asks.

Re-test and watch

Sites drift. New pages, a new menu embed, a photo with no alt text. We re-scan on a schedule, flag what slipped, and fix it before it becomes a pattern.

Try it yourself

This is the toolbar, working.

Press a control on the left and watch the sample page change. Your customers get these same controls on every page of your site, and they stay set for their next visit.

Toolbar controls

Six of the sixteen controls. The real toolbar adds read aloud, a dyslexia font, a dictionary, page structure, colour filters and seven languages.

Sample page

Birch & Bay Bakery

Open daily from 6:30am. Everything is baked here before sunrise, and the case changes with whatever came in that morning.

Order ahead on the daily menu, or call us and we will have it ready at the side window.

42 Harbor Ave, open 6:30am to 7pm

The toolbar helps people who can see your site but need it bigger, calmer or read aloud. It does not fix the code underneath, and we will never tell you it makes you compliant. That is what the audit is for.

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Pricing

Flat prices, quoted from your templates.

Priced on how big your site is, not how much traffic it gets. A busy site and a quiet one take the same work to fix.

Scan and statement

$450

One-off

  • Full-site automated scan, every page
  • Written summary of what fails and why
  • Accessibility statement published on your domain
  • Toolbar installed and configured

Audit and fix

$2,400

One-off, typical small business site

  • Manual testing of every template with a keyboard and a screen reader
  • Prioritized findings with the code change for each one
  • We make the fixes on sites we can deploy to
  • Re-test and a dated record of the work
  • Statement, reporting channel and toolbar included

Kept current

$250/month

After an audit

  • Monthly re-scan of the whole site
  • New pages and embeds checked before they go live
  • Fixes for anything that slipped
  • Quarterly report you can hand to anyone who asks

Sites with more than about fifteen templates, large document libraries, or a booking or ordering system we did not build are quoted after a look. Nonprofits and disability-serving organizations, ask us.

Straight answers

Questions people actually ask.

Will this make me ADA compliant?

Nobody can promise that, including the companies that do. Compliance is a moving target judged against WCAG, and it depends on your whole site, not one script. What you can have is a site that genuinely works for disabled visitors and a dated record showing the work. That is the strongest position available, and it is what we build.

I already have UserWay or accessiBe. Should I drop it?

Run the scan first. If the scan shows the same problems the overlay claims to fix, you are paying for a promise. Keep the subscription until the code is fixed if it makes you feel better, then cancel it and use ours for free.

Will this help blind visitors, really?

Fixing the code will. A toolbar will not, and we will not tell you otherwise. Blind visitors use their own screen reader, which they know well. What they need is a site whose buttons have names, whose images have alt text and whose forms have labels.

I got a demand letter about my website. What do I do?

We can fix the website quickly and document it, which is usually part of any resolution. We are not attorneys and cannot advise you on the claim itself. Talk to a lawyer first, then send us the list of issues in the letter and we will price the work.

How much does it cost and how long does it take?

A typical small business site runs about two weeks from kickoff to written findings, plus a week or two for the fixes, and lands in the range on the pricing above. Bigger sites get quoted after we look. You will have the number before any work starts.

Can I really get sued over a website?

Yes, and thousands of businesses are every year, most of them small ones. The usual pattern is a demand letter asking for a payment to go away, sent by a firm that files a lot of them. A site that works, plus a dated record of the work, is what takes you off that list.

Do you only work with your own clients?

No. Most accessibility work we do is on sites built by someone else. We will work alongside your current developer or handle it end to end.

Next step

Get the fixes priced.

Send the site and we will reply with what we found and what it costs. No call required.