Section 508 Compliance Services
Section 508 compliance services from an SDVOSB firm: audits, code remediation, manual screen-reader testing, and VPAT conformance documentation.
Sweent delivers Section 508 compliance for organizations whose technology has to be accessible — and provable. We audit, remediate the actual code, and document conformance the way a contracting officer or a court expects to see it.
What a 508 Engagement Covers
Section 508 governs whether federal electronic and information technology can be used by people with disabilities. The standard references WCAG 2.0 Level AA, and most agencies now expect 2.1 AA in practice. Meeting it isn't a one-time scan — it's a cycle of testing, fixing, and documenting that proves a real person using assistive technology can complete the same tasks as anyone else.
A complete engagement usually includes the audit, hands-on remediation, manual verification, and a VPAT or conformance report you can hand to a stakeholder.
What You Get
- A full audit against the Revised 508 Standards and WCAG 2.1 AA
- Manual testing with JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver, plus keyboard-only checks
- Code-level remediation of the issues found, performed by engineers
- Accessible document and interface review where it's in scope
- A VPAT or conformance report backed by the actual testing
- Optional automated checks wired into your build pipeline
Who This Serves
Federal agencies and the contractors who sell to them. State and local governments that adopt 508 by policy. And commercial vendors who need a VPAT to win public-sector business. If accessibility is a requirement in your contract, this is the work that satisfies it.
How the Work Runs
- We scope the systems in play — sites, apps, documents — and the standard you're held to.
- We run automated and manual testing to find the real barriers.
- Our engineers remediate the code and content, worst-first.
- We re-test, then issue conformance documentation you can defend.
Audit and Remediation From One Team
Most accessibility vendors stop at the report. That leaves you hunting for developers who can interpret it. We've seen agencies lose months in that handoff. Because Sweent is a software engineering firm, the people who identify a broken ARIA pattern are the people who rewrite it — no translation lost between the audit and the fix.
Credentials Behind the Work
Sweent is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and HUBZone-certified firm holding GSA Schedule 47QRAA25D0024. Accessibility is a core practice for us, spanning Section 508, ADA, and WCAG 2.0 through 2.2. For teams that need it, the logical next step is a scoping audit that establishes exactly where your systems stand against 508.
Frequently Asked Questions
Section 508 requires that electronic and information technology used by federal agencies be accessible to people with disabilities. The Revised 508 Standards point to WCAG 2.0 Level AA as the technical baseline, so in practice a 508 engagement means testing and remediating against WCAG and documenting the result.
A VPAT, or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, is the document that reports how a product conforms to 508 and WCAG. If you sell software or services to the federal government, a contracting officer will almost certainly ask for one. We produce VPATs backed by real testing, not optimistic guesses.
Both. We remediate websites, web applications, documents, and software interfaces. Because our team are engineers, we can go into the codebase and fix the underlying issue rather than recommending a workaround.
Automated tools like WAVE, Pa11y, and Lighthouse handle the first pass, but they only catch a fraction of real barriers. The conformance opinion comes from manual testing with JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver, plus keyboard-only navigation. That's how 508 is actually evaluated.
Yes. One-time remediation degrades the moment new content ships. We can build automated accessibility checks into your development pipeline and run scheduled manual audits so conformance holds over time.