Data-backed writing on ADA website lawsuits, accessibility overlays, and what automated scanning can and can’t catch. Every claim links to a public primary source.
Published price lists put a manual accessibility audit of a small site at roughly $1,000 to $7,000, with most between $1,250 and $2,750. The numbers with sources, what moves a quote, and how to tell an audit from an automated scan.
Store owners get cold emails claiming their site has accessibility failures, and some of those claims are false. Three checks that take about ten minutes, each one published because it caught a false claim in our own outgoing email before we sent it.
Between February and May 2026, the months with substantially complete records, US federal district courts averaged just under 440 non-employment ADA filings a month. The mid-year numbers from our public-records tracker, with a link to the query behind every count.
UsableNet counted 1,427 ADA digital accessibility lawsuits in 2025 against companies that had already been sued, 45% of federal cases. A settlement with one plaintiff does not end the exposure. The data and the case law, with sources.
EcomBack counted 983 website accessibility lawsuits in 2025 against sites with a widget present, up from 722 in 2024. 424 involved accessiBe, the company the FTC ordered to pay $1 million the same year. The numbers, with sources.