For agencies, studios and freelancers
Your client asked about accessibility. You have until Friday to sound like an expert.
It is a bad position and a common one. Saying “we’ll look into it” costs you the room. Guessing costs you more later. Bringing in a specialist who then turns up in your client’s inbox six months later costs you the client.
We are one small California studio, not a platform. We do the accessibility work, you put your name on it, and we stay where you put us.
Three ways to hand it over
Pick by how much of the relationship you want to keep holding. You can use different ones for different clients, and you can change your mind partway through.
Most common
White-label audit
$400per site, three or more
We test the site by keyboard and screen reader and hand you the findings in a document with your logo on it and no mention of us. You present it, you scope the work, you keep the relationship.
- $450 for a one-off, $400 each at three or more
- Your branding, your file, your voice — we will match your report template
- Findings written for a client to read, not for a developer to decode
- A call with you first so you are not seeing it live in front of them
- Turnaround inside a week
Subcontract the fixes
Hourly or fixedquoted per site
You found the problems, or we did, and your team would rather not spend three days on focus order and ARIA. We do the work in your repo or send you a patch, whichever you prefer.
- We work to your stack and your conventions
- Pull request against your branch, or a written change list
- Re-tested after, so you can tell your client it was verified
- We never contact your client — everything comes through you
Just refer it
15%of first-year value
You do not want to be in the middle at all. Send them to us, we take it from there, and you get paid for the introduction.
- Paid on collection, not on signature
- We tell the client where the referral came from
- No exclusivity, no minimum, nothing to sign
Whatever your client is billed is your business and we do not want to know. These are our prices to you. Most agencies mark the audit up to somewhere between $1,200 and $2,000 and that seems about right for the work you are doing around it.
Who calls us
Almost never someone with an accessibility problem in the abstract. It is nearly always someone with a specific client and a specific week that has gone wrong.
- A studio whose client just got a demand letter
- A shop bidding public-sector work where a VPAT is in the RFP
- A designer who builds beautifully and has never used a screen reader
- An agency with fifty client sites and no idea which ones are exposed
- A developer who knows exactly what is wrong and has no time to fix it
Three things we will not do to you
The reason to write these down is that the last two are the ones that usually get a partnership into trouble, and the third one might cost us your business. We would rather it cost us the business than cost you the client.
We will not go around you
If your client comes to us directly after a white-label engagement, we tell you before we reply to them. An agency partnership where the subcontractor is quietly recruiting the client list is not a partnership, and everyone in this industry has been on the wrong end of one.
We will not sell them a widget
Not directly, not as an upsell, not as an interim measure while the real fixes are scoped. If your client already has an overlay we will say plainly what it does and does not do, and then we will keep working.
We will not let you promise compliance
This is the awkward one. If the deck you are about to send says the site will be compliant or certified, we will ask you to change it before our name or our findings go anywhere near it — including when our name is invisible. It is the same reason we do not say it about our own work.
Try it on one site
Send us a client URL and we will do the first page free, in your report format, so you can see what your client would be reading before you commit to anything.
Chimpipi builds websites. We are not lawyers and nothing here is legal advice — you and your client should form your own view with your own counsel.