We spent 15 years learning where accessibility breaks. Then we fixed it.
Before HelpBob, we were a digital agency. For fifteen years we built and advised sites for just about everyone: European governments and the organizations around them, Fortune 500 companies and small e-commerce shops whose existence depended on the checkout page.
Back then accessibility was an afterthought — barely on anyone’s radar. But whenever it did make it into a project, it was always harder than it sounded. A requirement the size of a single sentence ("the site must be accessible") unfolded into hundreds of decisions: hard to implement, harder to verify, hardest of all to know who to trust.
The market filled up with shortcuts: overlay widgets that promised instant compliance and quietly made everything worse, and "audit-and-forget" consultancies that handed over a 90-page PDF and disappeared. The proper route — manual remediation by specialists — was slow, extremely expensive and out of date by the next release.
At some point we stopped wishing and built it. That’s HelpBob — made to make life easier on both sides of the screen: people with disabilities finally getting a web that works for them, and businesses that have to and want to meet accessibility laws on both sides of the Atlantic.
