Your Client's Website Is a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen

(And You Can Fix It in a Day) I've been building websites for clients for over 20 years. In that time I've seen a lot of things go wrong after launch — but nothing surprised me quite like watching three separate clients get pulled into ADA accessibility lawsuits over issues I could have fixed in an afternoon. We're talking about things like low-contrast text on footer links. Minor heading structure problems. A handful of images missing alt text. Genuinely small stuff — the kind of thing that slips through on a busy project, gets missed in QA, and then sits quietly on a live site for months or years. In each case, the client was swept up in what amounted to a class action targeting dozens of businesses at once. Frivolous? Probably. Stressful and expensive regardless? Absolutely. That experience stuck with me. Not because the issues were hard to fix, but because they were so easy to miss — and so easy to find, if anyone had thought to look. After the third time, I decided to build someth