Benchmark Accessibility

Web accessibility & Drupal engineering

Your accessibility problem, handled by someone who's actually done it.

Section 508 and WCAG conformance isn't a checkbox — it's legal exposure and a promise to every user. I audit it, fix it, and keep it compliant, so your team can ship without becoming accessibility experts overnight.

Email me a URL for a free audit See services & pricing

No sales call required. You'll get a recorded 10-minute walkthrough back.

Why this matters now

Accessibility is enforced, and the cost of ignoring it keeps rising.

Federal and state contracts require Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA conformance. Private organizations face a steady climb in ADA web accessibility demand letters and lawsuits. Automated overlay widgets don't satisfy either — courts and auditors have said so plainly. What holds up is real, manual remediation done by someone who understands both the standard and the code underneath it.

Who you'd be working with

Fifteen-plus years of Drupal, with accessibility at the core.

I'm a senior Drupal architect and accessibility specialist who has delivered Section 508–conformant platforms for federal and state clients. I don't just flag problems in a report — I fix them in the codebase, because I've been the developer on the other side of those tickets for over a decade.

15+ yrs

Drupal 7–11

2×

Acquia certified

Author

The Drupal Advantage

508 / AA

manual remediation

Selected accessibility & Drupal work for
Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Army National Guard · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Consumer Product Safety Commission · Tennessee Dept. of Education

What I offer

Fixed-scope engagements. No open-ended hourly surprises.

Teaser Audit

Free

A recorded 10-minute walkthrough of the five most serious accessibility issues on one of your live sites. No obligation — just proof I know what I'm looking at.

Most requested

WCAG 2.1 AA Audit

$1,500–2,500 / 3–5 days

Full manual and automated audit against WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508, a prioritized findings report your developers can act on, and a VPAT/ACR-style conformance summary you can hand to legal or your own client.

Remediation Sprint

$3,000–6,000 / 1–2 wks

I fix the issues — semantic markup, keyboard navigation, ARIA, focus management, contrast, forms, and dynamic components — directly in your Drupal or Angular codebase, then re-test to confirm conformance.

Compliance Retainer

$1,000–2,000 / month

Your on-call accessibility team: ongoing monitoring, re-audits on each release, and a fast answer whenever a compliance question comes up — without the cost of a full-time hire.

How it works

Simple, fast, and built to fit around your existing team.

  1. Free teaser audit

    Send me a URL. I record the top five issues and where they'll bite you.

  2. Scoped proposal

    Flat price, clear deliverables, a start date this week. You approve, I begin.

  3. Audit & remediation

    I deliver a report you can act on — or fix it myself and re-test to confirm.

  4. Stay compliant

    An optional retainer keeps you conformant as the site and the standards evolve.

Practicing what I sell

Accessibility statement

This site is built to conform to WCAG 2.1 Level AA. It uses semantic HTML landmarks, a visible keyboard focus indicator, a skip link, logical heading structure, text that meets AA contrast in both light and dark modes, and it respects your reduced-motion preference. Try it: navigate this whole page with the Tab key and watch the focus outline.

If you encounter any barrier using this site, email dean.bowles@gmail.com and I'll fix it promptly. Holding my own site to the standard I sell is the point.

Start here

Send me one URL. I'll send back a free 10-minute audit.

No commitment, no sales call required. You'll see exactly what I'd find and how I'd fix it — then decide if a full engagement makes sense.

Email me a URL for a free audit

Dean Bowles · Benchmark Accessibility
Email: dean.bowles@gmail.com