Government website accessibility software
GuardGrid is government website accessibility software for ADA Title II and Section 508. It crawls every public page, form, and PDF your entity publishes, tests them against WCAG, alerts you when something regresses, and produces the dated evidence your legal team and your residents can both rely on.
For public entities serving populations of 50,000 or more.
For smaller public entities and special district governments.
Forms, permit systems, agendas and minutes, boards and districts, and content behind logins.
Nothing is injected into your site and no script runs on your pages.
ADA Title II compliance dates
Set by the DOJ Title II rule as amended by the interim final rule of April 2026.
The extension moved the enforcement date. It did not create a grace period: the nondiscrimination obligation already exists, complaints continue to be filed during the interim, and a year disappears quickly when a county site carries thousands of pages and untagged PDFs. Treat the date as the point by which the record has to be complete, not the point at which the work starts.
One WCAG scan, mapped to the obligations a public entity answers to
Accessibility law does not define its own technical tests. It points at WCAG, which is what GuardGrid measures, so one scan speaks to Title II and Section 508 at once.
The technical core. Every scan tests each page against the WCAG success criteria at Levels A, AA, and AAA.
State and local government, including public colleges. The DOJ rule names WCAG 2.1 AA, with April 26, 2027 and April 26, 2028 dates.
Federal procurement. Findings map to Section 508 criteria, and a VPAT 2.5 exports straight from your scan data.
Private institutions and businesses serving the public. No fixed federal date, and claims cite the same WCAG criteria.
WCAG is also the technical basis for EN 301 549 and the European Accessibility Act, AODA in Ontario, and UK public sector rules. We test WCAG, not any jurisdiction's separate legal requirements.
GuardGrid measures technical conformance against the WCAG success criteria and maps findings to the frameworks above. That is a measurement, not a legal certification, and no automated tool can evaluate every success criterion. A full conformance claim also needs human review.
What a public entity actually has to cover
Most entities underestimate this list, usually by an order of magnitude.
The main .gov site
Services, department pages, news, and the emergency information residents need when something goes wrong at 2am.
Forms and permit systems
The pages where a resident actually transacts. These carry the highest complaint risk because failure means someone cannot access a service.
Agendas, minutes, and notices
Public-meeting documents are legally required to be available, and they are almost always untagged PDFs.
Boards, commissions, and districts
The sites nobody remembers until an audit finds them. A crawl finds them because it follows the links.
Content behind a login
Staff intranets and resident portals are in scope too. Authenticated scanning covers them rather than stopping at the public shell.
Third-party embeds
Payment, scheduling, and job-application systems. Where you cannot change them, document the exception with a justification an auditor will accept.
One scan, more than accessibility
Accessibility is the obligation with a date attached, so it leads. The same crawl also returns four more governance dimensions, which means you are not paying separate vendors to crawl the same site four times.
SEO and content quality
On-page checks, structured-data validation, and spelling, so residents can actually find the service page they need.
Link health
Every internal and external link checked with status codes and redirect chains, which is where a site redesign usually does its quiet damage.
Privacy and cookies
Cookie inventory by page and third-party tracker enumeration, with GDPR and CCPA reporting.
Security and TLS
Per-page security headers, TLS certificate health, and mixed-content detection across the property.
Brand monitoring is available as a paid add-on. See the full capability list.
Evidence that satisfies a records request
Public-sector accessibility work is judged on documentation. When a complaint arrives, the question is not whether your site was perfect on the day it was filed. It is whether you can show a continuous, dated, good-faith program: what you knew, when you knew it, what you prioritized, and what you fixed.
GuardGrid keeps that record automatically because it is generated from the scans themselves. Every finding names the exact failing element and the WCAG success criterion it breaks, Page Explorer Visual Review shows it marked in place on a screenshot of the page, and Tasks track it from open to fixed with a re-scan to verify. Notifications alert you when a score drops or a new critical violation appears, so a regression shipped on a Friday afternoon does not become a complaint six months later.
- VPAT 2.5 mapped to Section 508 criteria, generated from real scan data
- Compliance Evidence PDFs with severity breakdowns and protective legal framing
- A publishable, dated accessibility statement for your site footer
- Score history per property, documenting a continuous good-faith program
- Per-page results naming the exact failing element and WCAG criterion
- Exceptions management with an audit-trail justification for embeds you do not control
WCAG 2.1 AA · 642 pages
Updated 4m ago
- Critical 3
- Serious 11
- Moderate 28
- Minor 42
Why we do not sell you a widget
Public entities are offered accessibility overlays constantly, usually with a promise of instant conformance for a small monthly fee. An overlay is a script that changes pages in the visitor's browser. It does not change the HTML your server sends, which is what an OCR investigator, a plaintiff's expert, or your own auditor tests. Installing one does not create a record, and it does not prevent a complaint.
GuardGrid adds nothing to your pages. There is no tag to install, nothing new for your security team to review in a Content Security Policy, and no third-party code between residents and public information. We crawl from outside and report what is really there.
The platform is built in-house by Revion Solutions, Incorporated, which has been operating web platforms and managed infrastructure for institutions since 1999. We are not reselling someone else's product with a logo on it.
Frequently asked questions
What is the ADA Title II web compliance deadline?
Under the DOJ Title II rule as amended by the interim final rule of April 2026, public entities serving populations of 50,000 or more must comply by April 26, 2027, and smaller public entities and special districts by April 26, 2028. The technical standard is WCAG 2.1 AA. The extension moved the enforcement date, not the underlying obligation.
How is Section 508 different from ADA Title II?
Section 508 applies to federal agencies and to information and communication technology they develop, procure, maintain, or use, and it is what federal procurement asks about through a VPAT. ADA Title II applies to state and local government. The technical criteria overlap heavily, since both point at WCAG, so a scan that maps findings to both saves you doing the work twice.
Do we need a VPAT if we are a city or a county?
You may not be required to produce one for yourself, but you will increasingly be asked for one by partners, and you should be requesting one from every vendor whose software touches your residents. GuardGrid generates a VPAT 2.5 from your real scan data, which is also the fastest way to see what a vendor VPAT should look like.
What about third-party systems we do not control?
Payment portals, permit systems, agenda management, and job boards are common gaps. GuardGrid scans them as properties where they run on your domains, and Exceptions management lets you document embeds genuinely outside your control with an audit-trail justification rather than leaving them as silent failures.
Does GuardGrid fix the violations automatically?
No. It pinpoints the exact failing element, maps it to the WCAG success criterion it breaks, and shows the issue in place on a screenshot of the page. It does not rewrite your code or write changes back to your CMS. Hands-on remediation is available as a done-for-you service through Revion Solutions.
Is GuardGrid an overlay?
No. Nothing is injected into your site and no script runs on your pages. GuardGrid crawls your site externally the way a search engine or an auditor would and tests the HTML your server actually sends.
Get your baseline on the record.
Run a free scan on your main domain and see the letter grade, the failing elements, and the evidence trail behind them.