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 consulted on websites for just about everyone: European governments and the organizations that orbit them, Fortune 500 companies, and small e-commerce shops that lived or died by their checkout page.
Back then, accessibility was an afterthought — barely on anyone’s radar. But when it did land on a project, it was always harder than it sounded. A requirement that reads like a single sentence (“the site must be accessible”) would unfold into hundreds of decisions: hard to implement, harder to verify, and hardest of all to know whom to trust — every vendor claimed expertise, and few could prove it.
The market filled up with shortcuts: overlay widgets that promised instant compliance and quietly made things worse, and audit-and-forget consultancies that handed over a 90-page PDF and disappeared. The proper route — manual remediation by specialists — was slow, eye-wateringly expensive, and out of date the moment you shipped your next release. So we kept wishing for a tool that would find the problems, fix them at the source, prove what it did, and keep watching so nothing regressed.
Eventually we stopped wishing and built it. That’s HelpBob — made to make life easier on both sides of the screen: for visitors with disabilities, who finally get a web that works for them, and for the companies that need — and want — to meet accessibility laws on both sides of the Atlantic.
