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Work out the decision before you buy the thing
Five tools for the decisions that come before choosing a product: what you need to control, what a deferral actually costs, and where the barriers already are. None of them recommend a platform.
Everything computes in your browser. No answers are sent anywhere, nothing is gated behind an email, and every result is yours to keep.
Accessibility Risk Check
A practical self-assessment against WCAG 2.2, in plain language, covering the barriers that turn up most often and the criteria behind each one.
You leave withA prioritised action list, with links to the official standards.
What should you own, and what should you rent?
A website platform is six layers sold as one product. This works out which of them your situation requires you to control, and which you can happily hand to someone else.
You leave withRequirements to take into a vendor conversation — not a product recommendation.
What matters most — and what it costs to defer
Rank what matters for the next twelve months. You can’t have all twelve, and the ranking is not the point — the price of whatever lands at the bottom is.
You leave withThe cost of each deferral, and the events that reorder the list without warning.
What I actually use, and why
The tools I reach for, arranged by the same six layers as the stack diagnostic — including two layers where the honest answer is that there is nothing to buy.
You leave withA short list with reasoning, and who each pick actually suits.
Guides you can put on a table
An anti-enshittification field guide for deciding what to own, and a plain-English anatomy of the nine systems behind a website.
You leave withSomething to hand a client, a board, or a vendor.
These are engineering and design assessments, not legal advice. Where they touch regulation they identify risk for your counsel to assess — they do not certify compliance.
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