Compliapoint vs Accessible.org
Accessible.org offers transparent per-page audit pricing and excellent educational content. But their default service is audit-only — remediation, validation, VPAT, and certification are all separate line items. Here's how the costs stack up when you need the complete package.
✓ Credit Where It's Due
Accessible.org, led by founder Kris Rivenburgh, is one of the more transparent companies in the accessibility space. They publish per-page pricing, offer a public cost calculator, provide excellent educational content, and perform fully manual audits — never relying on copied automated scan results. Their audits are legitimate. The question is whether an audit-only default model serves you as well as a complete audit-and-remediation engagement.
How the Costs Stack Up
Accessible.org's individual prices are reasonable. But when you add every service you actually need for full compliance, the à la carte model adds up — and the project spans multiple stages.
Full Feature Comparison
Two legitimate, manual-audit companies with different delivery models.
| Feature | Accessible.org | Compliapoint |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | ✓ Fully manual WCAG audit — no copied scan results | ✓ Full manual audit with source-code remediation |
| Uses Overlay / Widget | ✓ No | ✓ No |
| Default Service | ⚠ Audit-only. Remediation is a separate engagement | ✓ Audit + remediation bundled in every engagement |
| Pricing Transparency | ✓ Excellent — public per-page rates and cost calculator | ✓ Clear written proposals with scope-based pricing |
| Remediation Included | ✗ No longer offered — Accessible.org discontinued code remediation | ✓ Included in project scope |
| Validation After Fixes | ⚠ Separate — $195/hr technical support hours | ✓ Included — we do the fixing, so validation is built in |
| VPAT / ACR | ✓ $350+ as a separate add-on | ✓ Included or scoped per engagement |
| User Testing | ✓ $550/session with a blind/visually impaired professional | ⚠ Not a standard deliverable |
| Accessibility Test Record | ✓ Free after successful remediation and validation | ✓ Included — dated, signed, permanently yours |
| Consulting / Strategy | ✗ No longer offered — consulting discontinued | ✓ Scoping and proposal included; further consulting $160/hr |
| PDF Remediation | ✓ $4/page for PDFs, $7/page for Word and PowerPoint ($250 minimum) | ✓ Included when in scope |
| Delivery Timeline | ✓ 1–3 weeks for audit. Remediation timeline depends on client's team | ✓ 7–10 business days for complete delivery. Rush 1–3 days |
| Who Does the Fixing | ⚠ Your team fixes — Accessible.org validates | ✓ Compliapoint fixes — you receive the completed work |
The Core Difference: Who Does the Work?
This is the most important distinction between these two companies.
Accessible.org — You Fix, They Verify
Accessible.org's primary service is the audit. They deliver a detailed Excel spreadsheet listing every WCAG violation found on your site. Your development team then uses that report to make the fixes. When your team is done, you purchase technical support hours ($195/hr) for Accessible.org to validate that the fixes were implemented correctly.
This model works well if you have an in-house development team with accessibility experience, want to build internal capability, and have the time to manage a multi-stage project. The audit report itself is high quality, actionable, and well-organized.
The limitation: if you don't have a developer who understands WCAG, you'll need to hire one or purchase additional consulting hours. The total cost and timeline depend on your team's ability to execute the remediation correctly.
Compliapoint — We Audit, We Fix, We Deliver
Compliapoint's model is done-for-you. We perform the audit, execute the remediation directly in your source code, and deliver the completed work with compliance documentation. You don't need to interpret an audit report, assign tickets to developers, or purchase validation hours.
This model works well if you don't have in-house accessibility expertise, need compliance achieved quickly (7–10 days standard, 1–3 for rush), want a single fixed price for the entire scope, or received a demand letter and need everything handled immediately.
The limitation: if you want to build internal accessibility competency through the remediation process, an audit-first model like Accessible.org may teach your team more. Compliapoint does the work for you — your team doesn't go through the learning process of fixing each issue.
What Accessible.org Offers That Compliapoint Does Not
Public Cost Calculator
Accessible.org's cost calculator lets you estimate your project cost instantly by entering your page count and complexity. This is one of the most transparent pricing tools in the accessibility industry. Compliapoint provides written proposals based on an assessment — equally transparent, but not self-service in the same way.
User Testing with Disabled Professionals
For $550/session, Accessible.org offers testing with a blind or visually impaired accessibility professional. This provides experiential validation and a recorded session you can reference. Compliapoint does not offer user testing as a standard service.
1-on-1 Consulting with Kris Rivenburgh
At $395/hour, you can get direct strategic advice from the founder — including their "War Room" session package for ADA lawsuit defense strategy. This level of named-expert consulting is a unique offering. Compliapoint's consultation is built into the engagement process rather than offered as a standalone service.
Educational Content and ADA Compliance Book
Kris Rivenburgh has published a book on accessibility compliance available on Amazon and maintains one of the more educational blogs in the space. If you want to learn about accessibility as a discipline, their content is valuable regardless of which provider you choose for remediation.
Common Questions
If Accessible.org's audit quality is good, why not just use them?
If you have an in-house development team that can execute WCAG remediation from an audit report, Accessible.org is a strong choice. The audit quality is excellent. The question is whether you want to manage the remediation process internally or have it done for you. If you don't have a developer who understands heading hierarchy, ARIA attributes, focus management, and form label associations, you'll need to either hire one or pay for additional support hours — and the total project cost and timeline will expand accordingly.
Can I get an Accessible.org audit and hire Compliapoint for remediation?
You could, but it would be redundant. Compliapoint performs its own comprehensive WCAG 2.2 AA audit as part of every engagement. Our audit may identify issues that any prior audit missed. You'd be paying for two audits when one is sufficient. Start directly with Compliapoint if you want audit and remediation in one engagement.
Is Accessible.org cheaper overall?
For audit-only, yes — their pricing is very competitive at $1,250–$2,750. But most businesses need more than an audit. But an audit only tells you what is broken. Accessible.org has discontinued code-level remediation, so the fixing has to be bought from someone else. Add validation hours ($390–$975), VPAT ($350) and user testing ($550) and a typical site reaches $2,940–$3,525+ — still unfixed. Compliapoint's single project fee covers audit, remediation, documentation, and the test record — often at a comparable or lower total cost with faster delivery.
I received a demand letter. Which is faster?
Accessible.org's audit takes 1–3 weeks. After that, your team needs to implement the fixes. Then validation hours are purchased. The total timeline from first contact to documented compliance depends on your team's speed. Compliapoint delivers complete remediation with compliance documentation in 7–10 business days standard, or 1–3 days for rush. For active legal situations, the done-for-you model eliminates the variable of internal team execution speed.
What it costs to get the site actually fixed
| Service | Accessible.org | Compliapoint |
|---|---|---|
| WCAG audit | $100–$250/page ($1,250–$2,750 typical) | $1,500 for a site up to 15 screens |
| Source-code remediation | ✗ No longer offered | ✓ Included in the Complete Engagement |
| Expert hours | $195/hr | $160/hr — 18% less |
| VPAT / ACR (WCAG) | $350 | $350 — the same |
| PDF remediation | $4/page ($250 minimum) | $600 for up to 20 documents |
| To a fixed, documented site | Audit only — the fixing must be bought elsewhere | $4,995 one-time, audit through test record |
Accessible.org rates taken from their own published pricing and services pages, September 2026, including their statement that code-level remediation and consulting are no longer offered. Compliapoint rates are on our pricing page.
The Two Questions That Decide This
Most of the detail on this page comes down to two things: whether your actual code gets fixed, and what it costs you over time.
| Accessible.org | Compliapoint | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Does it change your source code? | No — and not because of an overlay. They discontinued code-level remediation entirely | Yes — fixes are written into your HTML, CSS and templates |
| If you stop paying | Nothing to stop paying. Audits are one-off | Nothing changes. The code is yours, the test record is yours |
| 2. What does it cost, and does it stop? | $100–$250 per page; $1,250–$2,750 for a typical project | $4,995–$19,995 once, published in full |
| Over five years | Audit only. The fixing is a separate purchase from a different vendor | The same figure. There is no year two |
Accessible.org is a legitimate manual-audit company, not an overlay vendor, and their audits are done by certified testers. The difference is scope, not integrity: they tell you what is broken, and since they retired remediation you then have to find someone else to fix it. We do both, and our expert hours are $160 against their $195. See our published pricing.
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