Website accessibility, year-end offerFix your website's accessibility this year. A federal credit can return up to $5,000.
Crossroad audits your site against WCAG 2.2 AA, fixes what we find, and hands your accountant the paperwork for the IRS Disabled Access Credit. For eligible small businesses, that credit returns 50% of qualifying spend, up to $5,000 a year.
Costs must be paid or incurred within your tax year to count toward it. For calendar-year filers, that means before December 31.
How the credit works
| You invest in an audit and the fixesPaid within your tax year | this year |
|---|---|
| Credit on qualifying spendClaimed on IRS Form 8826 | 50% |
| Maximum credit, per year | $5,000 |
For eligible small businesses with tax to offset. We are not tax advisors; your accountant confirms eligibility and files the form.
Who qualifies for the credit
The IRS calls it an eligible small business. You need to meet one of two tests for the prior tax year, not both.
If you run a medical or therapy practice, a professional firm, or an early-stage biotech, there is a good chance you qualify on headcount even if revenue is past the first test.
- $1 million or less in gross receipts last tax year
or
- 30 or fewer full-time employees last tax year
- The work is paid for in the tax year you claim it
- The spend is reasonable and goes toward making your business usable by people with disabilities
What you get
One fixed-scope project. We do the audit, the fixes, and the paperwork, so nothing lands back on your desk half finished.
A real audit
Automated scanning across the site, plus manual keyboard and screen reader testing on your key templates and forms, measured against WCAG 2.2 AA.
The fixes, made for you
Color contrast, alt text, heading structure, form labels, focus order, link text, and component markup, repaired in the platform you already use.
Re-test report and statement
A dated before-and-after report and an accessibility statement to publish, so you can show what was done and when.
Paperwork your accountant can use
A statement of work and invoice that itemize the accessibility spend, plus a one-page Form 8826 worksheet. No extra accounting bill to work out how to claim it.
How it runs
Five steps, most of them ours. Your part is a kickoff call, access to the site, and a sign-off at the end.
Book early enough that the work is invoiced and paid before your tax year closes.
Scoping call
We look at your site together, confirm page count and platform, and agree the scope.
Audit
Automated and manual testing. You get a prioritized list: what blocks people, what is minor.
Remediation
We fix the issues in your CMS and templates. No redesign required.
Re-test and statement
We verify every fix and write your accessibility statement.
Hand-off to your accountant
Invoice, statement of work, and the Form 8826 worksheet, ready to file.
The risk side, briefly
The best reason to do this is that some of your visitors cannot use your site today. If you work in healthcare, therapy, or life sciences, more of your audience relies on assistive technology than you might expect.
There is also a legal reason. Website accessibility is one of the most litigated web issues in the United States. California's Unruh Civil Rights Act sets statutory damages for each violation, which makes demand letters cheap to send and costly to ignore, and a business does not need to be based in California to receive one.
Companies heading into a financing round or an IPO feel this most, because an open claim is a distraction nobody wants in diligence. Fixing the site first is the easier path.
The people who pitch are the people who do the work
Two principals, one team. No account layer between you and the people making decisions about your site.
Ben Green
Principal strategist
Search, AI visibility, analytics, and the technical build. Ben specializes in biotech and life sciences and runs every engagement himself.
Amber Love
Creative director
Brand and web design. Amber leads the visual system, the page design, and the details that make a site feel like yours and nobody else's.
Questions people ask first
What is the Disabled Access Credit?
It is a federal tax credit, claimed on IRS Form 8826, that returns 50% of what an eligible small business spends on qualifying accessibility work in a year, up to a maximum credit of $5,000. It is available each year you have qualifying costs.
Is my business eligible?
The IRS sets two tests based on your prior tax year: a gross receipts limit and a limit of 30 full-time employees. You only need to meet one of them. Many practices, professional firms, and early-stage biotechs qualify on headcount alone.
Does website work count toward the credit?
The credit covers amounts paid to remove barriers that keep people with disabilities from using your business, and website remediation is commonly claimed under it. The IRS has not published website-specific guidance, so your accountant makes the final call. We write the statement of work and invoice so that call is straightforward.
What if we do not owe tax this year?
The Disabled Access Credit is part of the general business credit. Unused general business credits can generally be carried back one year and forward for up to 20, so a pre-revenue company may still benefit later. Confirm how that applies to you with your accountant.
Which standard do you audit against?
WCAG 2.2 Level AA, the standard most US courts, regulators, and procurement teams refer to. We combine automated scanning with manual keyboard and screen reader testing, because automated tools on their own catch only a portion of real barriers.
Will this make us lawsuit-proof?
No one can honestly promise that. What you get is a site that meets a recognized standard, a dated audit and re-test report, and a published accessibility statement. Together those remove the easy targets and show good-faith effort, which is what matters if a demand letter ever arrives.
Can we just install an accessibility widget?
Overlay widgets do not fix the underlying code, and sites using them still receive demand letters. We repair the templates, content, and components themselves, in whatever platform your site already runs on.
Find out what it would take for your site
A 20-minute call. We look at your site, tell you roughly how much work it needs, and whether the credit is likely to apply. No pressure.