Digital Accessibility Design Review

Allyant’s accessibility design review is a comprehensive assessment of your design files, identifying and addressing accessibility barriers before you write code.

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Timing is Everything.

The best time to identify accessibility errors is in the design phase—before launching a digital product or website. This prevents errors from making their way through each stage of the development lifecycle, ultimately causing re-work at the end. But not all organizations understand accessible design, and not all design reviews are as interactive as Allyant’s.

Real-Time Review.

Our digital accessibility design review process is simple—send us your low- or high-fidelity prototypes, mock-ups, or wireframes, and our team of accessible design experts conducts an assessment. Once our review is complete, we don’t just deliver to you a marked-up file. We go through that review live, with your team of designers and developers, identifying and explaining each issue, where it’s found, why it’s problematic, and how to fix it. We share best-practices documentation and an accessibility design checklist.

This interactive working session supports real-time Q and A custom to your designs and your level of expertise. And our team can interact where yours is—whether Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision, or other tools.

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In-Depth Audit.

Our comprehensive digital accessibility design review delves into every aspect of your design, scrutinizing visual elements, layout, navigation, color contrast, typography, and more. And it doesn’t stop at aesthetics. We also examine technical aspects, guiding your development team toward building an accessible end product.

And we follow industry-standard accessibility guidelines, ensuring your website or product is usable for everyone, adhering to the Web Content Accessibility Guideline’s (WCAG) POUR principles: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.

Reduce Cost. Reduce Risk.

Addressing accessibility in your designs not only prevents costly re-work at the end of the creation process, eliminating accessibility errors before moving to code—before going-live—reduces your legal risk of an ADA demand letter or lawsuit.

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Simple, Seamless Accessibility Design Reviews with Allyant. 

Save time, money, and resources by addressing accessibility issues in the design phase of your new product build, next feature release, or your organizational rebrand. Our accessibility experts will work with your team to create and code the most accessible, legally compliant, experience possible.

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Frequently Asked Questions

An accessibility design review is a comprehensive examination of your website, app, or other digital product design files to check for accessibility issues before your website or product moves to the code stage. When design files are reviewed for accessibility, and accessibility issues are corrected, it prevents those issues from making their way further through the development process, creating re-work later in the cycle.

At Allyant, design reviews are much more than transactional file sharing. Our team conducts hands-on working sessions with your team—including designers and developers—pointing out accessibility issues that should be addressed, the barriers they would create for the user, guidance to fix issues, and alternative options if there is no accessible solution.

A design review or audit is not a requirement, but it is a best practice. If accessibility issues are caught and corrected in the design phase, those issues do not get passed to the development team causing costly re-work that may ultimately delay your website or product launch. Correcting accessibility issues earlier in the creative process will also help reduce your organization’s legal risk—ensuring that website or product does not launch with non-compliant accessibility errors.

For more about the value of shifting accessibility earlier in the creative process, read our blog post: How to Shift Left in Digital Accessibility: A Guide to Building an Designing Inclusively from the Start. 

Color contrast is the difference in color between an element in the foreground and an element in the background. For example, the difference in color between a font placed on top of an image or its background.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) stipulate specific color contrast ratios to ensure color is legible, and readable, for all users—especially those with visual impairments. If the contrast in your design does not meet certain ratios, the design will not pass WCAG accessibility standards.

Common accessibility issues include:

  • Improper semantic structure, such as incorrect heading hierarchies.
  • Insufficient color contrast between text and background.
  • Missing or non-descriptive alt text for images.
  • Unlabeled or mislabelled interactive elements like buttons and links.
  • Inaccessible forms lacking proper labels and instructions.

To learn more about design tips for accessibility, read our blog post: 5 Graphic Design Tips for Creating an Accessible Website.