About AccessBridge
The internet should be
for everyone.
Over 61 million Americans live with a disability. Many of them use screen readers, keyboard navigation, switch controls, and other assistive technologies to access the internet every day. When a business website isn't accessible, it isn't just inconvenient — it's exclusion. AccessBridge exists to end that, one website at a time.
Where this started
AccessBridge started with Kevin.
Kevin is a web developer. In 2020, while working at a medical data company, he went deep on ADA compliance and WCAG guidelines — researched the legal landscape, documented the real-world impact on disabled users, and put together a full proposal for how his employer could make their digital products genuinely accessible.
His company ignored it.
Not because accessibility wasn't important. Not because the work was beyond reach. They just didn't prioritise it. Kevin had done the research, understood the problem, and seen exactly what their disabled users were experiencing — and nothing changed.
That frustrated him. It stayed with him. And eventually, he brought that frustration home.
"Accessibility isn't a feature. It's a right. We can't fix everything — but we can make something meaningfully better for people who need it. That feels like the least we can do, and also like more than enough reason to try."
— Laura, co-founder
Why this is personal
When Kevin shared that story with me, it landed somewhere real. I have friends and family members who navigate disability and injury every day — people for whom the physical world, and increasingly the digital one, presents constant and often unnecessary barriers.
Accessibility isn't a charitable gesture or a compliance checkbox. It's a recognition that disabled people are full participants in public life — and that businesses have a responsibility to design for that participation. People with visual impairments, motor disabilities, cognitive differences, and hearing loss are your customers. They deserve to find your hours, read your menu, make a booking, and place an order on equal terms with everyone else.
The internet is not optional infrastructure anymore. It is modern life. An inaccessible website doesn't just cost you customers — it communicates, loudly, that some people don't belong.
61M+
Americans living with a disability — all potential customers
96%
Of the top 1 million websites have detectable WCAG failures
745%
Increase in Illinois ADA website lawsuits in H1 2025
What we built and why
We built AccessBridge because we believe most business owners who have inaccessible websites don't know it. They're not indifferent to their disabled customers — they're simply not seeing what those customers experience when they arrive at the site.
That's the gap we exist to close. AccessBridge scans your site against current WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 standards, produces a plain-English report that explains what's broken and why it matters for real people, and monitors your site continuously so new issues are caught before disabled users encounter them.
We don't sell overlays. We don't sell widgets that mask inaccessibility while screen reader users still can't navigate your site. The disability community has been clear that these tools cause harm — they create a false sense of compliance while the underlying problems remain. We do the real work: finding real violations and helping you fix them in the actual code.
We also think ADA enforcement is doing something legitimate. Sometimes it takes legal and financial consequences to move organisations that won't move on their own. We'd rather help you build genuinely accessible websites than see anyone — disabled users or business owners — caught in a situation that was entirely avoidable.
The team
A small team with a real product, built on principle.
No venture funding. No overlays. No promises we can't keep.
Laura
Co-founder
Laura leads product direction, customer experience, and go-to-market at AccessBridge. She came to this work through the people in her life who navigate disability every day, and through a deep conviction that digital accessibility is not an optional upgrade — it is a baseline responsibility. She is based in Lisbon, Portugal.
Kevin
Co-founder & Technical Lead
Kevin is a web developer whose years in medical data and compliance gave him a deep understanding of WCAG guidelines and ADA requirements long before AccessBridge existed. He built the scanning engine, the report architecture, and the monitoring system. His frustration at watching company after company deprioritise accessibility is what made this product inevitable.
What we stand for
Genuine accessibility, not the appearance of it
Overlays and widgets don't make websites accessible — they make them appear accessible to search engines and auditors while screen reader users still encounter the same barriers. We find real WCAG violations and help you resolve them in the code itself.
Disabled people are the point, not an afterthought
Every violation we report has a real impact on real people — blind users who can't read your menu, users with motor disabilities who can't complete your booking form, people with low vision who can't read your prices. We keep that front and centre in everything we build.
Plain language, always
Accessibility reports have traditionally been written for developers. Ours are written for business owners. You shouldn't need a technical background to understand what's broken on your website or why it matters to the people trying to use it.
Accessibility is ongoing, not a one-time fix
Websites change constantly. A fix today can break tomorrow when someone updates a page. We monitor continuously and alert you the moment something new breaks — because an accessible website isn't a project you complete, it's a standard you maintain.
Honest about what we can and can't do
We're not a law firm. We can't guarantee you won't be sued. What we do is identify real WCAG violations, help you fix them, and document your good-faith remediation effort — which matters significantly in any legal proceeding involving ADA compliance.
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