Every customer able to check out. Every fix on record.

You can, for a problem you already know about. If you know an image has no alt text, any AI assistant can write the fix. Jralo does the four things a single prompt cannot.

1. It finds the problems, and the laws that matter to you. A chat assistant cannot open your website; it only fixes what you paste in and describe, and it does not know where your business is or where your customers are unless you tell it. Jralo opens your site in a real browser and tests it against the WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules that automated testing can check, the standard these laws point to. In the same check it reads your terms, privacy and contact pages, works out the country your business is based in and the countries you sell to, and tells you which accessibility laws are likely relevant, such as the ADA in the United States or the European Accessibility Act for customers in the EU, with a link to our guide to each. So you know what is broken, and why it matters where you trade, before a customer or a lawyer tells you.

2. It keeps them fixed. One prompt fixes today. The next theme update, new app, product page or banner can break it again, and nobody notices. On paid plans Jralo checks your site every day and tells you when something new appears.

3. Its fixes are tested, not pasted. Code from a chat goes straight into your live site untested. Website Mechanic works on your real code and nothing changes on your live site until you review it: on GitHub it re-runs the checks before opening a pull request for you to review, and on WordPress and WooCommerce you get a fixed copy of your theme to preview before you switch to it. The Shopify app, coming soon, will let you check the fixed theme in a browser before you publish it.

4. It gives you proof. If a demand letter arrives, "I asked ChatGPT" is not evidence. Jralo keeps a dated, tamper-evident record of every check and fix, stamped every day by an independent timestamp authority, and the Demand Letter Evidence Pack turns it into a PDF and CSV for your lawyer.

Automated testing finds many, not all, accessibility problems, so also try your checkout and key pages with only a keyboard and with a screen reader.

Serious enough to answer properly, but not a reason to panic. A demand letter is a formal claim, usually from a law firm, that your website has barriers for disabled people. It normally asks you to fix them and to pay to settle before a lawsuit is filed.

What is at stake depends on the law used. Under the federal ADA (Title III), a person who sues can win a court order to make the site accessible and their lawyer's fees, but not money damages. Some state laws add money: California's Unruh Civil Rights Act allows statutory damages of at least USD 4,000 for each violation.

Lawsuits do follow. In 2025, 3,117 website accessibility lawsuits were filed in US federal courts, 27% more than in 2024, and that count leaves out state courts and claims settled before anyone sued.

What to do: do not ignore it, and do not reply on your own. Talk to a lawyer, keep the letter, fix the barriers it cites and keep dated evidence of what you fixed and when. Fixing your site does not automatically end a claim, but courts have dismissed some cases because the business had already made its site accessible. Jralo does not give legal advice.^8910111

No one can give an honest number for your website. Demand letters are private and nobody counts them, so any percentage you see is a guess.

Lawsuits are counted. In 2025 plaintiffs filed 3,117 website accessibility lawsuits in US federal courts, and UsableNet counted 4,928 web accessibility lawsuits in total once state courts are included. Many more claims arrive as letters that never reach a court.

Your risk is higher if you sell online to customers in the United States, and higher still for online stores: retail and e-commerce are among the industries sued most. Being small is no shield. In the first half of 2025 only 36% of the companies sued had annual revenue above USD 25 million, so most were smaller businesses. Barriers that are easy to spot, such as images without alt text, unlabelled buttons or a checkout that cannot be used with a keyboard, are also the easiest to put in a letter.

Outside the United States, the pressure usually comes from regulators and complaints rather than law firms. The European Accessibility Act, for example, is enforced by each EU country; see the country guides on this site.

Whatever the odds, the answer is the same: find and fix the barriers, keep checking, and keep a dated record of it.¹¹²

Enter your web address in the free WCAG 2.2 check on jralo.com. It tests your homepage and up to five linked pages against WCAG 2.2 A and AA with axe-core, and also checks for broken links, page errors, broken images, insecure files and slow pages. It also tells you which countries' accessibility laws are likely relevant to your site, from where your business is based and where your customers are. No sign-up is needed. Automated testing finds many, not all, accessibility problems, so pair it with a keyboard and screen reader check.

No tool can tell you that. There is no official ADA certification for websites, and the US Department of Justice does not certify products as compliant. What you can do is test against WCAG, fix what you find and keep a dated record of it. Jralo does all three.⁷

Very likely, if you sell to consumers in the EU. Since 28 June 2025 the Act covers e-commerce services wherever the seller is based. Microenterprises (fewer than 10 staff and EUR 2 million or less in turnover or balance sheet) are exempt for services. Each EU country enforces it under its own law; see the country guides on this site.

No tool can certify EAA compliance, but you can test against the standard it points to. For websites the usual technical reference is EN 301 549, which maps to WCAG 2.1 AA. Jralo's free check tests your homepage and up to five pages against WCAG 2.2 A and AA with axe-core (WCAG 2.2 keeps every WCAG 2.1 rule except the obsolete 4.1.1 Parsing), and tells you whether the EAA is likely relevant from where your customers are. Paid plans re-check every day and keep a dated, timestamped record of every check and fix. Automated testing finds many, not all, problems, so add a keyboard and screen reader pass.

No. A widget does not change the underlying code, and regulators have acted against compliance claims: the US Federal Trade Commission ordered one overlay vendor to pay USD 1 million in 2025 over claims that its tool made sites compliant. Fixing the code is what works.

Yes. If your code is on GitHub, Website Mechanic changes it to fix what the latest check found, re-runs the checks and opens a pull request for you to review; it never pushes to your main branch or merges anything. On WordPress and WooCommerce, the free Jralo plugin sends your theme to Website Mechanic and gives you a fixed copy to preview before you switch to it. The Shopify app, coming soon, does the same for Shopify themes. One fix cycle costs USD 49, and your first fix is free.

An optional public page at jralo.com/monitored/your-site, with a live badge and a listing in the Jralo directory. It shows that Jralo checks the site every day and that each check is on a tamper-evident, independently timestamped record. It never shows issues or scores, and it does not say a site meets any law.

Keep a dated record that someone else can verify. On paid plans Jralo checks your site every day and writes every check and fix to an append-only, hash-chained evidence log. Each day the latest entry is stamped by an outside RFC 3161 timestamp authority. You can export the log as PDF and CSV, and publish an optional public record and badge.

No. Jralo adds nothing to your pages to change them for visitors. It finds problems in your real pages so they can be fixed in your theme, content or code, and Website Mechanic can make those fixes as a pull request you review.

Choose a tool that changes your site instead of adding a widget. Overlay products such as accessiBe and UserWay add a script that alters pages in the visitor's browser, while the code underneath stays the same. Jralo works the other way round: it tests your pages against WCAG 2.2 A and AA with axe-core, and Website Mechanic fixes the problems in your theme or code as a GitHub pull request you review. Free testers such as WAVE and Lighthouse report problems but do not fix them; Jralo also re-checks every day on paid plans and keeps a dated, timestamped record of every check and fix.

Yes, automatically. Every check also looks for broken links on your own site, JavaScript errors, images and files that fail to load, insecure (http) files and pages slower than 5 seconds. Paid plans run it every day. It does not fill in forms, log in or place test orders.

Yes. Jralo checks any website or store by its web address: Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, Magento, WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Drupal or a custom build. There is a free plugin for WooCommerce and WordPress, and a Shopify app is on the way.

The checks work for any public website. The guides on this site cover 32 markets, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union and its main member states, Israel, India, Australia, Japan and Brazil. They all use WCAG as the technical reference, so one record works everywhere; how each law is enforced differs. Every check also tells you which of these laws are likely relevant to your site, from where your business is based and where your customers are.

Only the repositories you pick when you connect. Website Mechanic reads that code to make a fix, then opens a pull request for you to review. Code is not kept after the job and is never used to train AI. You can remove Jralo's access from your GitHub settings at any time.

Yes, on paid plans. Send axe-core, Playwright (with @axe-core/playwright) or Lighthouse results to your site's evidence log with a site token, and the same call tells your pipeline whether to fail on critical or serious problems. The setup guide is at jralo.com/docs/ci.

Talk to a lawyer before you reply. The Demand Letter Evidence Pack (USD 249, with 6 months of the Site plan) re-checks the pages the letter cites the same day and maps each cited problem to your record, as a PDF and CSV for your lawyer. Jralo never contacts anyone on your behalf and does not give legal advice.

Never. We do not give lists of sites or issues to anyone, including law firms. Sites appear in the public directory only if their owner chooses to publish a record.