ADA web-accessibility filings hit 3,117 in 2025, up 27% year-over-year. California Unruh stacks $4,000 per violation with 3× actual damages. CIPA pixel suits add $5,000 each. The trade press calls these "the new wave"; the demand letters call them "settle within 30 days." Most small businesses don't know they're exposed until the certified mail arrives.
Forge runs the audit, ships you a PDF with every finding tied to the exact statute it implicates, and — if you want — fixes what we find. The audit fee credits toward remediation if you engage within 60 days, so you're never paying twice for the same work.
Same scanner, same statute mapping, same disclaimer. Difference is crawl depth and how many pages you want covered.
Report in 24 hours
One page, all four lenses, full statute mapping. Right when you need certainty before launch or before the next round of marketing.
Report in 48 hours
Up to 5 pages. Right for sites with a few key conversion or compliance pages — checkout, contact, services, about, privacy.
Report in 72 hours
Up to 25 pages with sitemap-driven page selection. Right for growing e-commerce, agency clients, or sites preparing for funded growth.
The audit is automated; remediation is not. Forge does the human work: alt-text passes, banner implementation, code-level WCAG fixes, header configuration. Audit fee credits toward any of these tiers within 60 days.
2-week sprint
The lawsuit-track findings only. Alt text, viewport, label gaps, the worst color-contrast pairs, the consent-banner-or-no-banner decision. Targeted, scoped, fast.
4–6 week engagement
Everything in critical, plus the medium and regulatory-track findings. Schema fixes, structured data, sitemap, robots, headers. Site exits the demand-letter zone end-to-end.
Sprint + monthly
Full compliance sprint plus an ongoing Forge Care plan that monitors uptime, performance, SSL, security headers, and reruns the audit on a cadence. New regression — you hear from us before the customer.
No. Both are automated reads of your site against the statutes most active in 2025 web litigation. Neither is legal advice and neither establishes an attorney-client relationship. Forge can connect you to counsel for specific exposure questions; the audit gives you the facts to bring to that conversation.
An audit tells you what's wrong. A build (or a remediation engagement) fixes it. You can buy them independently — many customers run an audit, hand it to their existing developer, and never come back. Others use the audit as the scope-of-work for a remediation engagement with Forge.
If you engage Forge for a remediation package within 60 days of an audit purchase, the audit fee is credited dollar-for-dollar against the remediation invoice. Honored manually — mention your audit purchase in the quote conversation and we'll apply the credit before the engagement starts.
Yes — that's exactly what it's for. Run a scan, get the grade and the top issues by email, decide from there. No phone call, no marketing list.
No automated scan can guarantee that. Automated tools detect roughly 30–40% of accessibility issues by criteria coverage. An A grade means no lawsuit-track issues were detected by the scan; manual review by a qualified human tester (Forge, your counsel's accessibility consultant, or one you contract directly) is still required for full compliance assurance.
Each tier includes a number of rescan coupons valid for 90 days from the original audit. After your developer fixes findings, request a rescan to verify the grade improved. Rescans use the same tier you originally purchased.
Disclaimer. The Vitki Data legal-risk audit is automated, technical, and informational. It identifies patterns associated with consumer-facing legal risk under U.S. and EU statutes but is not legal advice and does not establish an attorney-client relationship. Automated tools detect roughly 30–40% of accessibility issues by criteria coverage; manual review by a qualified human tester is required for full compliance assurance. Results reflect a single point in time. Statutes referenced are accurate to the date of this report and may change. For questions about your specific legal exposure, consult counsel.