Web accessibility in Austin

Working with Dardo from Austin

Dardo is a three-person design studio in Bogotá, Colombia, led by its founder, Nicolás Cerón. We work with companies in Austin remotely: there is no Dardo office in Austin. Calls happen on video, in English or Spanish, and everything we agree goes into a written proposal.

Bogotá keeps UTC−5 all year, with no daylight saving time. Austin is 1 hour behind Bogotá in January and on the same clock as Bogotá in July, so a nine-to-five day in Austin shares 7–8 working hours with a nine-to-five day in Bogotá.

A project starts with a brief through the contact form, by email to hello@dardo.studio or on WhatsApp. Nicolás replies within one business day with the questions that set the scope. The proposal that follows lists the scope, deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, payment stages, a timeline and the people doing the work, by name.

Published starting prices: Accessibility audit from USD 690. Anything beyond that is quoted by scope, with no minimum budget. Pricing explains how a quote is built.

What the accessibility audit and remediation include

We shape the engagement around the actual brief. The proposal identifies which of these deliverables are included, who supplies the inputs and how each one is accepted.

• Automated scan of every sampled page, plus manual testing of key journeys
• Keyboard, screen reader, zoom and reflow, and contrast testing
• Report of issues mapped to WCAG success criteria, with screenshots, severity and the fix
• Remediation in code, content and the design system
• Retest of every fixed issue
• Accessibility statement with a route to report barriers
• Checks added to the release process so issues do not return

The web accessibility service page has the full scope, the process and the questions buyers ask.

Rules a website in Austin has to meet

These are the rules we plan around for sites that serve customers in Austin. They are a starting point, not legal advice.

• The ADA and websites: the Department of Justice says the Americans with Disabilities Act covers the websites of businesses open to the public, and points to WCAG as the reference.
• State and local governments: a 2024 DOJ rule requires WCAG 2.1 AA from state and local government websites, from April 2026 for larger governments and April 2027 for smaller ones.

We build to WCAG 2.2 AA and set up consent and forms for these rules from the first brief.

Work you can check

Projects from 2026, each with its published result:

• Janus Observatory (Science / Interactive storytelling, 2026). −47.9% 3D models: 8.2 MB instead of 15.8 MB.
• Hyper (AI / Customer intelligence, 2026). USD 10 per customer research report on hypers.dev.
• Gissi (Education / Music & arts, 2026). 34 → 416 Google clicks: 3 months before, 9 days after relaunch.
• superame.lol (Community / Digital products, 2026). 17 currencies in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
• Shiimain (Public data / Territorial intelligence, 2026). 4 days to build, 27 to 30 May 2026.

None of these clients is in Austin. They are the projects we can show, with their numbers.

Questions before you choose