Law Firms and Financial Advisors Can't Afford an Inaccessible Website
There's a unique irony when a law firm's website is inaccessible — you're in the business of rights, yet denying them to potential clients with disabilities. Financial advisors face the same exposure, with clients who are often older, more likely to have disabilities, and fully aware of their legal protections. This industry's clients are its most sophisticated potential plaintiffs.
Why This Industry Faces Unique Risk
Law firms and financial services companies deal heavily in documents — contracts, disclosures, prospectuses, terms of service, legal briefs. These documents are almost universally distributed as PDFs, and almost universally inaccessible to screen readers. A single client engagement can involve dozens of inaccessible documents.
Additionally, the demographics of legal and financial clients skew older. The disability rate for adults over 65 exceeds 25%. These are clients who have spent careers understanding rights and contracts. They know when they're being discriminated against, and they know how to take action.
Investment disclosures, retainer agreements, financial statements, legal contracts — virtually every document a law firm or financial advisor produces must be accessible. Most are scanned PDFs. A single blind client who cannot read your engagement documents has an immediate ADA claim.
Any law firm or financial services company with government contracts, grant funding, or public agency clients must meet Section 508 standards. Compliapoint scans for both WCAG and Section 508 compliance.
Common Violations in Legal & Financial Sites
Inaccessible PDF Documents
Contracts, disclosures, agreements, and reports as scanned image PDFs with no readable text layer.
Webinar & Video Content
Client education webinars, market update videos, and attorney interviews without captions.
Fine Print Contrast
Footnotes, disclaimers, and terms in gray text on white backgrounds — illegally low contrast.
Generic Document Links
Links that say 'Download Form', 'View Agreement', 'Click Here' with no descriptive context.
Client Portal Forms
Account opening, intake, and onboarding forms with no accessible field labels.
Missing Language Attributes
Multilingual firm sites without proper language declarations for each page or section.
Real-World Scenarios
The Retainer Agreement Problem
A potential client with low vision contacts your firm about representation. You email a retainer agreement PDF. It's a scanned image. Their screen reader reads nothing. They cannot review or sign the contract. You have just denied them access to legal services — which is itself an ADA violation.
The Investment Disclosure Gap
Your financial advisory firm sends quarterly statements and investment disclosures as PDF reports. A blind client cannot read any of them. Under ADA, clients must have equal access to financial information about their own accounts.
The Client Portal Barrier
Your firm's client portal uses complex dropdown menus to navigate to documents and case updates. None are keyboard accessible. A client with severe arthritis who cannot use a mouse cannot access their own case files.
What Compliapoint Fixes for You
- Remediates PDF documents — contracts, disclosures, statements, agreements — making them fully readable by screen readers
- Generates captions for all webinars, video updates, and recorded consultations
- Fixes all document download links with descriptive, contextual text
- Labels all client portal forms, intake forms, and account forms
- Corrects contrast on footnotes, disclaimers, and fine print
- Scans for both WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 compliance
- Generates VPAT documentation for government contract requirements
- Provides rollback — every fix is reversible if content changes
Every fix Compliapoint makes is written directly into your site's code. No JavaScript overlay. No band-aid. Real fixes that courts recognize as genuine compliance effort.
Unlike AccessiBe and UserWay (both Israeli companies), Compliapoint is U.S.-based. Built for ADA, Section 508, and U.S. legal standards. Your data never leaves American servers.
Professional Remediation Service
- Full WCAG 2.2 AA Accessibility Audit
- Source-level code remediation — not an overlay
- PDF & document remediation
- Video caption services
- VPAT / ACR generation available
- Accessibility Test Record issued upon completion
- No obligation until you approve the written proposal
We review your site and confirm scope before any work begins
Protect Your Firm's Reputation and Your Clients' Rights
An inaccessible law firm website is a contradiction in terms. Compliapoint fixes the technical barriers so your firm lives its values. professional service, transparent pricing.