How to generate a quote for ADA compliance

1. Overview

• This document serves as a guide for replying to Basecamp requests such as https://basecamp.com/1765618/projects/14413408/todos/443443748#comment:870095052 
• This document is specifically made for auditing purposes only. If you need to access the developer’s guide, please see https://tripedia.thedesignpeople.net/qa/accessibility-guidelines-for-developers/ .

2. Get a list of URLs to be scanned

1. Open Screaming Frog.
2. Switch to List mode Screenshot .
3. Click Download XML Sitemap Screenshot .
4. Input the sitemap. The sitemap URL varies per website. Below are some examples:
   • www.website.com/sitemap_index.xml 
   • www.website.com/sitemap.xml 
5. Click OK.
6. Click Start.
7. When Screaming Frog is done scanning the sitemap, click HTML Screenshot .
8. Copy the URLs found by Screaming Frog.

3. Scan the URLs using pa11y

1. pa11y is an application that scans the website for violations using HTML Code Sniffer’s guidelines. Its main advantage is that it allows us to scan URLs in bulk.
2. Download the scanner .
3. Follow the instructions under the One-time setup  section.
4. Follow the instructions under the Running the tester  section. Paste the URLs you got from Screaming Frog to urls.txt.
5. When pa11y is done scanning, you should see the results in output/output.csv.

4. Prepare the report

1. Make a copy of https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xpO/edit?usp=sharing .
2. Manually identify the number of global issues. You can do this by opening a very basic inner page (e.g. about page) then counting the errors returned by HTML Code Sniffer. Put the total number in these cells (https://prnt.sc/17svgdi ).
3. Import output/output.csv into a new sheet (https://www.loom.com/share/d7adc9977144cd6a546cf8a48945df ).
4. Copy and paste the data from the new sheet into the original one (https://www.loom.com/share/c34894863d35f14ad5bfd60cdbt1z15 ).
5. Calculate the total (https://prnt.sc/17swxyz ).
6. If there are iFramefinder or IDX Broker pages, exclude them from the total (https://prnt.sc/17sx736 ) .

5. See the final report

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X5S1a6IfBu/ZeAwGfv+kr1i7pvat0WEFyA-qAfc14JTWvcfef6Kpg  is a sample report.
• A site-wide report takes between 15 minutes to 1 hour to prepare depending on the number of URLs.