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Core Accessibility
Risk Audit
A rigorous, decision-grade audit that delivers technical clarity, risk interpretation, and executive-level insight.
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What the Core Audit Is
The Core Accessibility and Software Risk Audit is Verona's flagship engagement. It delivers a structured, expert-led evaluation of your digital product against WCAG 2.1 Level AA, interpreted through the lens of legal exposure, user impact, release readiness, and organizational risk.
The Core Audit combines comprehensive scan coverage across the defined scope with rigorous expert-led evaluation and validation. AI-assisted discovery surfaces potential risk signals, while hands-on evaluation identifies additional defects beyond scan visibility and determines which issues hold up under real user interaction.
Testing reflects keyboard navigation, assistive technology behavior, dynamic state changes, semantic structure, and error handling. Every finding enters the record only after expert review and confirmation. The result is a verified, decision-ready body of evidence that leadership, legal, and engineering can act on with confidence.
The value is verified clarity. The Core Audit translates scanner signals into a structured, expert-led evaluation, producing verified findings mapped to WCAG requirements and interpreted through a unified risk model. Findings are evaluated for severity, demonstrability, and reproducibility, then synthesized into a prioritized risk picture with clear remediation direction. The result is a credible baseline and a shared understanding that technical, legal, and executive stakeholders can use to make informed decisions with confidence.
Methodology
How the Audit Works
Each engagement follows the same disciplined five-step process, regardless of scope. Every Core Audit is designed to produce decision-ready conclusions, not a high-volume list of uninterpreted findings.
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Scope Alignment
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Built For
Who We Serve
The Core Audit is designed for organizations where accessibility exposure carries legal, procurement, or reputational consequence.
Organizations Facing Compliance Deadlines
Preparing for the DOJ Title II WCAG 2.1 AA deadline, procurement review, or contractual accessibility requirements.
When a deadline creates legal obligation, a scanner report is not a compliance strategy. The Core Audit delivers the verified, interpreted evidence leadership needs to demonstrate credible effort and make informed decisions under pressure.
Organizations That Have Been Sued or Received Demand Letters
Responding to active litigation, a demand letter, or a pattern of complaints with defensible, expert-led findings.
Legal response requires independently verified evidence, not raw scanner output. The Core Audit produces a prioritized risk register and remediation roadmap that legal counsel can reference with confidence.
Organizations Preparing for Procurement Scrutiny
Entering government or enterprise procurement cycles where accessibility posture is a qualifying criterion.
Procurement evaluators increasingly require evidence of accessibility compliance. The Core Audit provides the documented findings and risk interpretation required for credible procurement responses.
Leadership Teams Seeking Baseline Visibility
Needing a credible, independent read on where the organization stands before making strategic decisions.
Before investing in remediation, governance, or ongoing advisory, leadership needs a verified baseline. The Core Audit establishes that baseline with the rigor and interpretation required to support confident next steps.
Follow-On Options
What Comes After the Audit
Remediation Review
After the audit, remediation work begins. This may include defect fixes, corrective updates, and structural changes addressing audit findings. The Remediation Review independently verifies whether those efforts resolved the issues they were intended to address. Once fixes are validated, Verona performs a point-in-time compliance determination for the current build, providing a clear view of current accessibility standing and any remaining areas of exposure.
Validation and Compliance Documentation
For organizations that need formal documentation to support their accessibility posture under procurement, legal, or regulatory review. Includes VPAT preparation, Accessibility Conformance Reports, and Legal Good Faith Portfolio assembly.
Advisory Retainer
For organizations that need continuity beyond a point-in-time engagement, the Advisory Retainer extends risk interpretation, process guidance, and strategic advisory into an ongoing relationship calibrated to release velocity and compliance exposure.
Decision Ownership
The client retains all downstream release, remediation, and risk acceptance decisions.
Principal-Led. Decision-Grade. Built for Scrutiny.
When the risk picture is unclear, this is where clarity begins.
Start with the Core Audit.
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