How much does an AODA accessibility audit cost?

If you run a website for an Ontario organization, the AODA likely requires it to meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA. The first question everyone asks is: what does an audit cost?

The honest answer: it depends on scope

An audit price is driven by a few things:

• How many unique templates you have — a marketing site with 6 page types is very different from a 40-template platform.
• How deep the testing goes — an automated scan catches roughly a third of real barriers. Manual keyboard and screen-reader testing catches the rest, and costs more because a human does it.
• Whether remediation is included — a report is cheaper than a report plus the fixes.

What a real audit includes

A credible WCAG 2.0/2.1 AA audit should give you:

1. Automated and manual testing across your key templates
2. Keyboard-only and screen-reader walkthroughs
3. A prioritized findings list — severity, location, and effort
4. A conformance summary you can hand to legal or procurement

The trap to avoid

If a quote is suspiciously cheap, it's probably an automated scan with a PDF wrapper. Those miss the issues that actually get organizations complaints — focus traps, unlabeled controls, content that breaks with a screen reader.

Want a real number?

Tell me how many templates you have and what platform you're on, and I'll give you a straight quote. See Accessibility Audits & AODA Compliance for how I work.