Client & Context
A WCAG 2.2 AA audit is repeatable; trust at scale is not. Between December 2025 and April 2026, EnhanceAccess Private Limited engaged HalfAccessible six separate times to audit and remediate websites for their financial-sector clients, and rated every single engagement 5.0.
The portfolio spanned more than fifteen brands, including Auxano, Turtle Wealth, Erito Ventures, Indorient, LongArc, Trifecta Capital, Airavat Capital, Aionios Alpha, Mavenark, Alkemi Capital, Elev8, Xeed Ventures, Kitven, Kae Capital, Dhyana Capital, and Pixelsky Capital.
Choose Your Next Step
Running one financial website or a whole portfolio? Start with a conversation, test one site with the $500 Quick Audit, or book a technical hour. Full coverage is the $2,000 Complete Audit (see accessibility audit pricing), multi-site programmes are quoted after the free call, and agencies can white-label the work through our agency partner program.
Free 30-Minute Call
Best for: first conversations, portfolio scoping and quotes
Tell us how many sites, CMSes and PDF fact sheets are in scope and which rules you answer to (ADA, the EAA or SEBI). We explain where you stand, what to test first and send a quote. No technical prep needed.
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$500 Quick Audit
Best for: one financial site that needs a fast, expert baseline
Manual keyboard and screen reader checks on your key templates, with a prioritised report your developers can act on before you scale the work to the rest of the portfolio.
$100 Technical Consultation
Best for: teams that need expert technical answers now
A one-hour working session to walk through audit findings, talk fixes through with your developer, or review counters, charts, forms or PDFs on your site live.
The Challenge
Financial and venture capital websites share a familiar set of accessibility risks. Each WCAG 2.2 AA audit had to produce findings a different development team could act on without hand-holding, and the work had to stay consistent across fifteen different codebases and CMSes.
| Pattern | Why it is a barrier | WCAG 2.2 criterion |
|---|---|---|
| Data-heavy layouts | Fund tables and figures that only make sense visually, so screen reader users lose the relationships between labels and numbers | 1.3.1 Info and Relationships (opens in a new tab) |
| PDF fact sheets | Fact sheets and disclosures published as untagged PDFs, read out of order or not at all | 1.3.1 and the W3C PDF techniques (opens in a new tab) |
| Animated counters | Moving AUM and portfolio counters with no way to pause them | 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide (opens in a new tab) |
| Third-party form embeds | CRM contact and newsletter forms with unlabelled fields | 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions (opens in a new tab) |
Running a WCAG 2.2 AA Audit at Portfolio Scale
We standardised the methodology once and applied it on every site in the same order:
| Step | What we did |
|---|---|
| 1. Automated scan | Catch the obvious issues quickly across every template. Automated tools help with coverage, but W3C WAI notes that evaluation tools cannot check every accessibility aspect (opens in a new tab). |
| 2. Manual assistive technology testing | NVDA (opens in a new tab), JAWS, VoiceOver and keyboard-only navigation for everything automation misses: focus order, trap states, announcement quality and reflow. |
| 3. Findings mapped to WCAG 2.2 | Every finding tied to its WCAG 2.2 success criterion (opens in a new tab) with severity, location and a concrete fix, in one report format for every vendor. Section508.gov (opens in a new tab) guidance stays in view where US federal procurement matters. |
| 4. Remediation and re-test | For Airavat and Aionios Alpha we performed the remediation ourselves, fixing semantics, ARIA usage, contrast and keyboard support at code level, then re-testing against the original findings. |
The Results
- 15+ financial-sector websites audited against WCAG 2.2 AA
- Two platforms fully remediated at code level and re-verified
- One consistent reporting format adopted across every engagement
- Six consecutive contracts, every one rated 5.0 out of 5.0
Repeat engagements are the metric we care about most: an agency that returns six times in five months is not buying reports, it is buying reliability.
Why Financial Websites Face Higher Accessibility Risk
Financial services websites carry real digital accessibility exposure. In the US, ADA.gov web guidance (opens in a new tab) explains how ADA Title III applies to the websites of businesses open to the public. In the EU, the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) (opens in a new tab) covers consumer banking services (see the European Commission’s EAA overview (opens in a new tab)). In India, SEBI and the RBI have both told regulated entities to act. For venture and wealth firms, an inaccessible website also undercuts the diligence story they sell.
Finance Accessibility Rules And Deadlines
- 28 Jun 2025: date the European Accessibility Act started to apply, including to consumer banking services (Source: EUR-Lex, Directive (EU) 2019/882 (opens in a new tab))
- B2: maximum CEFR language level for consumer banking information under EAA Annex I (Source: EUR-Lex, Annex I (opens in a new tab))
- 31 Oct 2026: SEBI’s extended deadline for regulated entities to complete accessibility audits and remediation (Source: SEBI circular, Jul 31, 2026 (opens in a new tab))
- 14 Aug 2025: RBI told banks, NBFCs and payment system providers to comply with the Supreme Court’s accessibility order (Source: RBI/2025-26/74 (opens in a new tab))
The technical patterns repeat across the sector, which is why a WCAG 2.2 AA audit that already knows them moves faster than a generic one. Sector context, standards and FAQs live on our finance and banking accessibility specialty; Indian firms facing the SEBI deadline can also see our India website accessibility audit.
The Issues We Found Most Often Across 15+ Sites
| Issue | Where it showed up | WCAG 2.2 criterion |
|---|---|---|
| Low text contrast | Brand-coloured stats, links and chart labels | 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) (opens in a new tab) |
| Missing or duplicated accessible names | Navigation and social icons | 1.1.1 Non-text Content (opens in a new tab), 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value (opens in a new tab) |
| No pause for moving content | Carousels and counter animations | 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide (opens in a new tab) |
| Broken focus order | Mobile menus and modal newsletter prompts | 2.4.3 Focus Order (opens in a new tab) |
| Skipped heading levels | Page templates, making screen reader scanning slow | Best practice; 1.3.1 (opens in a new tab) when visual headings are not marked up |
Because every report used the same format and severity model, EnhanceAccess could move developer teams between projects without retraining them on how to read the findings, the quiet efficiency that turns one engagement into six. When fact sheets and disclosures are in scope, those files can move through our PDF document remediation track after the web audit.
Planning Your Own Audit Programme?
If you manage multiple properties and need a repeatable WCAG 2.2 AA audit partner, start with our accessibility audit services and review accessibility audit pricing. Every audit is led by founder Shadab Saifi, who holds the IAAP (opens in a new tab) CPACC, WAS and CPWA certifications and DHS Trusted Tester, with 10+ years in accessibility. See what you receive in our sample audit report.
Not sure which path fits? Book the free 30-minute call (opens in a new tab): a first conversation to understand where your sites stand, which rules apply and what a portfolio arrangement would cost. Choose the $100 one-hour technical consultation when your team needs hands-on help now, for example walking through findings with your developer or checking issues on your site live. Agencies delivering for financial clients, as EnhanceAccess did, should also review the agency partner program. The full catalogue is on our services.
Prefer proof from neighbouring programmes? See our ADA website remediation case study and white label accessibility audits case study. Those led with remediation and agency delivery; this programme led with portfolio-scale WCAG 2.2 AA audits for financial websites.