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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Jun 25, 2022 7:39AM

The general strategy is definitely a combination of an automated site
crawler scan (a scan that crawls the site and scans every page) ad a
manual accessiblity assessment of key pages and component
Pages:
The HomePage
Contact Us page
Search page (if there is one)
Landing pages for key categories
One page per categry or template (say articles, blogs)
Components:
Any components used consistently across the site
* Head/footer
* Any navigation menus or modal popups used consistently
* Check for videos and any online media player (make sure those are
accessible and support closed captions and ideally audio description)

The automated scan can be done monthly (it's quick and, depending on
what you choose, can be inexpensive)
Manual assessments of key pages should be done quarterly (or less,
depending on how often your site is updated).

Here are two options, depending on budget

Wav'es Accessibility I'm back service
https://wave.webaim.org/aim/
(site scan + manual assessment of 4 pages for $500).
You may have to supplement with assessment of more pages and components.

If you want the lowest cost DIY possible:

Axe crawler (opensource):
https://github.com/tjscollins/axe-crawler
(open source, runs Axe on every page), + you'd have to conduct manual
reviews yourself or hire someone to do it.

All the big vendors, Deque/Level Access/TPGI offer some form of these
services at various price point.
I've heard good things about Accessibility 360, but I've never used
them directly.



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> I'd recommend Accessible360. Here is their website:
> https://accessible360.com/.
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