We Ran Our Own Site Through a Full Accessibility Audit — Here's What We Found

"Is your website accessible?" is a question a lot of small businesses in the UAE have never been asked, and a lot of agencies never actually test for. So when we finished rebuilding our own site, we ran it through the same kind of audit we'd run for a client — and we're publishing exactly what it found, including our own mistakes.

What we tested

We used axe-core (the same open-source engine behind most professional accessibility tools) against WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 Level AA rules, across every one of our 13 page templates — homepage, every service page, pricing, about, work, contact, careers, insights, and legal pages.

What it actually found

Two real, concrete bugs — not vague warnings:

A contrast bug hiding in a color rule, not a color choice. A homepage section styled for a dark background had a general rule that made all its paragraph text a light, muted grey — which was correct for most of that section, except for a white pricing card sitting inside it, whose text inherited the same light-grey rule and became nearly unreadable against its own white background. The fix wasn't picking a better color; it was making that card's own text color explicit instead of letting it inherit from whatever section happened to contain it.

A heading order that skipped a level. On two pages, the first heading after the page title jumped straight to a card grid's sub-headings with nothing in between — invisible visually, but a real problem for anyone navigating by heading (a common screen-reader browsing pattern). The fix was adding the section heading that should have been there in the first place.

Both were fixed the same day they were found, and re-tested — the site now passes an automated scan of every template with zero flagged violations. Worth being precise about what that does and doesn't prove: automated tools like the one we used catch a meaningful slice of accessibility problems, not all of them — genuine confidence also needs manual keyboard testing and real screen-reader use, which is a separate, ongoing pass, not a one-time scan.

Why this matters beyond "avoiding a lawsuit"

Accessibility fixes overlap with SEO more than most business owners expect: correct heading hierarchy is a ranking signal Google explicitly documents caring about, and a screen-reader-navigable page is also, not coincidentally, a page a search crawler parses more easily. We check accessibility and SEO together for exactly this reason — treating them as two audits usually means missing where they're actually the same underlying problem.

What we'd check on your site

If you're not sure where your own website stands, the honest first step is the same one we took on our own: run it through an automated check and see what comes back, rather than guess. We're happy to do that for you and tell you plainly what we find — get in touch if you'd like a second opinion on your own site, accessible or not.