One engagement. Designed to answer the questions that matter most.
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 2.2 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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Need accessibility baked into your software development processes for current and future releases?We establish governance programs and provide cross-functional training for teams and leadership. That way, your products are built with accessibility in mind from the ground up.Want to know more? Ask us.
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Who We Serve
The Core Audit is designed for businesses where accessibility exposure carries legal, procurement, or reputational consequence.
Businesses Facing Compliance or Release Deadlines
Preparing for the DOJ Title II WCAG 2.1 AA deadline, a major software release, or a contractual accessibility requirement.
Verona evaluates your software against the actual WCAG and ADA standards the law is measured by. You receive findings sequenced by severity and legal vulnerability, and the technical path to fix each one. You also receive expert documentation of the existing issues, the fixes put in place, and your accessibility compliance posture once the work is verified and complete.
Businesses That Have Been Sued or Received Demand Letters
Responding to active litigation, a demand letter, or a pattern of complaints with documented, expert-led findings.
Legal response requires independently verified evidence, not raw scanner output. You receive a prioritized risk register that names each issue, its legal impact, and how to resolve it, plus documentation prepared by an accessibility expert that your counsel can use in official and legal proceedings. Our process and documentation are structured for legal scrutiny.
Deal, Procurement & Diligence Teams
Clearing accessibility as a blocker in procurement, contracts, or an M&A transaction.
Accessibility debt stalls deals and becomes acquired liability after close. Verona delivers the audit a deal requires: the issues located and verified, their legal and financial impact made clear, and VPAT-ready documentation your team can use to satisfy procurement, support buy-side or sell-side diligence, and keep accessibility from holding up the contract.
Founders & Owner-Operators of Online Businesses
You carry the decision, the brand, and the risk yourself.
Owner-operated businesses are increasingly being targeted in accessibility lawsuits, especially when the website drives meaningful revenue, leads, bookings, or customer trust. The Core Audit shows what is wrong, what needs to be fixed first, why it matters, and how it should be fixed. Verona guides the fixes through to resolution, then validates the work and provides strong documentation you can use for litigation or contract review.
No internal development team or accessibility specialists? We can help. Reach out and we can walk you through exactly how.
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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