About FlexAccesses
Accessibility has an honesty problem. We're here to fix it.
For years the industry sold accessibility as a widget, a one-click fix, a badge for your footer. Regulators, courts and disabled users all pushed back. We built FlexAccesses to do it straight — real testing, honest scope, and documentation that actually holds up.
Why we exist
The gap between "compliant" and accessible
Somewhere along the way, "accessible" got quietly redefined to mean "has a widget." Overlay tools promised instant compliance, businesses installed them and felt safe — and disabled users still couldn't complete a checkout, read a form, or navigate with a keyboard.
That gap didn't go unnoticed. The FTC fined a leading overlay vendor $1 million for deceptively claiming its tool could make any site WCAG compliant (FTC case 2223156 (opens in a new tab)). The National Federation of the Blind condemned that vendor's marketing and business practices in a convention resolution (NFB Resolution 2021-17 (opens in a new tab)). And businesses running an overlay were sued anyway: 119 defendants in May 2025 alone already had a third-party accessibility widget installed (UsableNet 2025 Midyear Report (opens in a new tab)). A widget in the corner of a broken page protects no one.
We started FlexAccesses because the honest version of this work is also the effective one. Automated testing reliably detects 30–50% of WCAG 2.2 AA success criteria — so we use it for that part. The rest needs people, so we're clear about that too. And because enforcement increasingly asks for proof, we produce the documentation that actually holds up. No theatre, no false safety.
What we stand for
Four things we don't compromise on
Honesty over hype
If a scan can't judge something, we say so. If a claim can't be backed up, we don't make it. Plain scope beats a confident promise you can't keep.
People, not badges
The point isn't a certificate for your footer — it's that a real person using a screen reader can actually get through your site.
Automation and people
Machines are fast and cover 30–50% of the success criteria. Humans catch the meaning, the flows and the edge cases. You need both — and we won't pretend otherwise.
Proof that holds up
Audit reports, remediation logs and monitoring records — the paper trail enforcement asks for and overlay tools never produce.
Where we draw the line
What we won't do
- Sell an overlay as "compliance". A widget doesn't fix your code.
- Promise "one-click" WCAG. Real conformance takes real work.
- Fear-sell with lawsuits. We inform; we don't scare you into buying.
- Inflate a score to look good. Honest numbers, even when they're lower.
How we work
The honest workflow, start to finish
We combine an automated scanner for the issues machines can catch, a self-guided checklist for the manual criteria, expert audits for the criteria automation cannot judge, and an honest accessibility statement to document where you stand. An optional widget adds user-facing adjustments on top — never as a stand-in for the fixes. Our documentation lays out exactly how the pieces fit.
At a glance
What FlexAccesses is
- Focus
- Web accessibility
- Standards
- WCAG · ADA · EAA · 508
- Approach
- Automation + human audits
- Our stance
- No overlay-as-compliance claims
Accessibility, done straight
See where your site really stands with a free scan, or reach out and talk to a human — no hard sell.