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Terms of Service

Effective September 16, 2026

These terms govern your use of accesschecked.com and any services you purchase from AccessChecked ("we", "us"). AccessChecked is a brand of RJ Cohen Ventures LLC, a New York limited liability company. By using the site, submitting a form, or purchasing services, you agree to these terms. They include a mandatory individual arbitration provision and a class-action waiver (section 11).

1. The service

The Remediation Program consists of: an accessibility audit of your website against WCAG 2.1 Level AA; code-level remediation of the scope confirmed after the audit; a retest of that scope; and the filing and maintenance of a record in the Accessibility Registry. Scope is confirmed in writing after the audit and is limited to the pages, templates, and components listed. Third-party components we don't control are excluded and noted on the record.

2. Fees and payment

The program fee is $9,500: a $4,750 deposit at purchase and a $4,750 balance due when the record is updated to Verified. Sites outside the standard scope are quoted separately in writing. Fees compensate work performed and documentation maintained; they are not contingent on, and are not refundable based on, the outcome or resolution of any legal matter.

3. Refunds

The deposit is refundable in full if we have not started the audit. Once the audit has started, the deposit covers the audit and findings report and is not refundable. If verification is prevented by a blocker outside our control — access not provided, a platform limitation, a third-party component — we document it on the record and the balance is reduced to the value of work completed, at our reasonable determination.

4. Your responsibilities

You will provide timely access to the site (through a collaborator or staff account, never your personal password), answer content questions we raise, and not make changes to in-scope templates during remediation without telling us. Delays on your side extend timelines and may cause a "Remediation on record" entry to lapse; a lapsed record can be restored on retest.

5. No legal advice, no guarantee

We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice. Nothing we produce is a statement that your website complies with any law, that every page is free of barriers, or that any claim against you will succeed or fail. A record documents defined work as of stated dates and nothing more.

6. The registry record and badge

Records are filed in the Accessibility Registry under its rules, which you can read at accessibilityregistry.org. Records are public and permanent, including lapses and withdrawals. You receive a limited, revocable license to display the registry badge on the website named in the record, unaltered and linked to the record. The badge must not be described as a certification, approval, or government credential, and must be removed if the record is withdrawn.

7. Intellectual property

Code changes we make to your site are yours once the balance is paid. Our reports, methods, and this site's content remain ours; you may use reports internally and share them with your counsel.

8. Confidentiality

Detailed findings are shared only with you and anyone you authorize. The record itself is public by design.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising from the services or this site is limited to the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages, including legal fees, judgments, or settlements in any matter concerning your website.

10. Indemnity

You will indemnify us against claims and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the badge or record, or content on your site that you asked us to leave unchanged.

11. Disputes: arbitration and class-action waiver

Any dispute arising from these terms or the services will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules, seated in New York, New York, before a single arbitrator. You and we each waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in a class or representative action. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court instead. Subject to applicable law, this section survives termination.

12. Governing law

New York law governs these terms, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

13. Changes

We may update these terms; the effective date above shows the current version. The terms you accepted at purchase govern that purchase.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms: contact form.