WordPress website maintenance & support
in Washington, D.C.

Accessibility is usually treated as a project. A review happens, a list of fixes is done, a report is filed. Then publishing resumes, and the site drifts back.

Drift is the normal state rather than a failure of care. Most regressions arrive through content rather than code. An image published without a description. A heading level skipped because the smaller size looked better. A document attached in a format nobody can read aloud. A colour picked for a campaign that does not have enough contrast.

So the work belongs in the publishing routine, not in an annual review. The editor is the place to enforce it, because that is where the decision is made. A required description field on images is worth more than a policy document.

Automated checks catch a useful floor and should run on a schedule rather than on request. Missing alternative text, empty links, contrast failures, heading order. None of that needs a specialist once it is scheduled, and the report is short when it runs weekly rather than yearly.

What automation cannot judge is whether a description is useful. An image described as image or as photo passes a machine check and helps nobody. That needs a person, and it needs guidance short enough to be read once.

Third-party components are the recurring problem. A booking widget, a map, a chat window or a video player arrives with its own markup and its own defects, and it updates without asking. Each one needs an owner and a check after it changes.

Documents deserve their own line. Publishing a scanned page as a file puts content on the site that no assistive technology can reach, and it is the most common way an otherwise careful organisation becomes unreachable.

Testing with the keyboard alone, monthly, on the paths that matter, catches most of what is worth catching. It requires no software and no budget.

We keep the result as a short record rather than a certificate: what was checked, when, what was found, what was fixed. It shows the direction of travel, which is the honest thing to show, because a site that publishes every week is never finished.