Disclaimer & Testing Methodology

1. Not legal advice

ADA Genie LLC ("ADA Genie," "we," "us"), the company that operates the ADA Genie website and Service, is a software company, not a law firm, and does not provide legal advice. Nothing on this website, or in our reports, emails, or other materials, constitutes legal advice or creates an attorney-client relationship. Information about the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), Section 504, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ("WCAG"), compliance deadlines, the Department of Justice ("DOJ"), the Office for Civil Rights ("OCR"), or any other law or agency is general information that reflects our good-faith understanding and may be incomplete, outdated, or inapplicable to your situation. Laws change. For advice about your circumstances, consult a licensed attorney and a qualified accessibility professional.

2. How ADA Genie tests (and what it can't do)

ADA Genie loads your public web pages in a real, automated browser and evaluates them using axe-core, the open-source accessibility engine developed by Deque Systems, the same engine that powers Google Lighthouse and Chrome DevTools. We test against the success criteria of WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.2, Levels A and AA. Our automated checks include, among others, color contrast, ARIA usage, accessible names and roles, document structure, link and control naming, and image text alternatives.

ADA Genie goes beyond a single, one-time automated score. Among other things, we:

• run a broad set of automated rules across every page we can reach, every day, not a single page once;
• add AI-assisted checks for things rules alone can't judge well, such as whether image alt text is actually meaningful or whether link text makes sense out of context;
• capture a screenshot of each flagged element; and
• separate confirmed WCAG failures from advisory "best-practice" suggestions and from items that need manual human review, so results are not over- or under-stated.

Automated testing has real limits. No automated tool, including ADA Genie, Lighthouse, axe, or any other, can detect every accessibility barrier or confirm full conformance. Automated checks are generally understood to catch only a portion of WCAG issues. ADA Genie does not fully evaluate keyboard-only operation, the real experience of screen-reader or other assistive-technology users, cognitive accessibility, the quality or accuracy of human-authored content, captions and media alternatives, documents and third-party embeds in all cases, or pages that are not publicly reachable or that we are not authorized or able to crawl. Our reports are point-in-time and reflect only what was tested when the scan ran. ADA Genie is a starting point and an ongoing monitoring aid. It is not a substitute for a manual audit by a qualified accessibility expert, which we recommend for formal conformance or legal sign-off.

The descriptions of our methodology on this page, including any comparison to other tools, are provided for general information only and are not warranties, guarantees, or promises of any particular result.

3. No guarantee of compliance or outcomes

We do not warrant or guarantee that your website, content, or organization is or will become compliant with the ADA, WCAG, Section 504, any state or local law, or any other standard, or that using ADA Genie will prevent, reduce, or resolve any complaint, demand letter, investigation, audit, lawsuit, penalty, or other legal or financial consequence. Accessibility "scores," counts, severities, fix suggestions, and pass/fail indications are estimates produced by automated tooling and may contain errors, false positives, or false negatives. Some of our checks are AI-assisted: AI-generated findings may be inaccurate, incomplete, or incorrect and should be independently reviewed before implementation.

4. Your responsibilities

Under ADA Title II, the public entity that owns a website (for example, a school district, city, county, or other state or local government body) is ultimately and non-delegably responsible for the accessibility of its web content. That legal responsibility cannot be transferred to a vendor or to ADA Genie. You, not ADA Genie, remain responsible for reviewing our reports and deciding what to remediate, actually remediating issues, obtaining any independent or legal review you need, ensuring you are authorized to request scans of the website(s) you submit, and providing accurate information.

5. Platform and third-party ("vendor") issues

Many accessibility issues on government and school websites originate in the content-management system or template provided by a third-party platform vendor (for example, Finalsite, Apptegy, CivicPlus, Edlio, Blackboard, or WordPress and its plugins/themes). Where we can, ADA Genie tries to indicate which issues appear to be platform- or template-generated versus content-level. This is an aid, not a legal determination of fault. Identifying that an issue is vendor-generated does not shift your legal responsibility for your site, and whether your vendor is contractually or legally obligated to fix it depends on your agreement with that vendor and applicable law: matters solely between you and your vendor. ADA Genie is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or responsible for any third-party platform; platform names are used only to describe compatibility.

6. Your agreement, warranties, and privacy

Your use of the ADA Genie website and Service is governed by our Terms of Service, which include an "as is" disclaimer of warranties, a limitation of liability, and an indemnification provision, and by our Privacy Policy. Please read both.

7. Third-party links

Our website and reports may reference or link to third-party websites, tools, or resources (including government and standards-body pages). We provide these for convenience and do not control or endorse them and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, or availability.

8. Changes

We may update this page from time to time. Changes are effective when posted here with an updated "Last updated" date.

9. Contact

Questions? Email reports@getadagenie.com.