Brian Beals, LLC

Section 508 Digital Accessibility · Conformance Assessment & VPAT
Punta Gorda, FL · nationwide
brian@brianbeals.com
brianbeals.com/accessibility
(941) 979-6282
SBA-Certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business · SDVOSB Set-Aside Eligible
What applies. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires that information and communication technology developed, procured, maintained or used by federal agencies be accessible. There is no government-wide compliance date: it is in force now and it governs award eligibility. A solicitation asks for a VPAT, and the answer is due with the bid.

Company Snapshot

SDVOSBSBA Certified
Term08/2026 – 08/2029
SAM.govActive
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CAGE22XM3
Founded2026 · Florida
LocationPunta Gorda, FL
SDVOSB certified by SBA under 13 CFR 128, verified against SAM.gov and VA records.

Standard Applied

WCAG2.0 AA, built to 2.1
Rule36 CFR 1194 App. A
AlsoTitle II · Section 504

Scope Covered

WebPages & templates
DocumentsPDF & Office
FormsOnline & fillable
MobileApps & responsive
MediaCaptions & transcripts
Third partyVendor VPAT review

NAICS & PSC

541512Computer Systems Design
541511Custom Programming
541519Other Computer Related
541611Admin & Mgmt Consulting
DA01App Development Support
R499Professional, Other

A veteran-owned consultancy that establishes where an organization stands against Section 508 and produces the document a contracting officer asks for. The deliverable is an Accessibility Conformance Report in VPAT 2.5 format: every WCAG success criterion marked and evidenced, dated and signed. For agencies evaluating their own ICT, and for vendors who have been asked for a VPAT with a bid due. Delivered by one principal with an enterprise data and automation background.

Services

Section 508 Conformance Assessment

Automated scanning plus manual sample testing, including keyboard and screen reader checks, against WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Review of the published accessibility statement, coordinator designation, and grievance procedure against what the rule requires. Deliverable is an Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) in VPAT 2.5 format, the same document you already require from your software vendors, plus a prioritized roadmap with effort bands and a one-page summary suitable for a board or budget request. Two to four weeks.

Document Inventory & Triage

Catalog every PDF and document across the agency's web properties, then classify each one: retire, replace with an accessible HTML page, remediate, or leave. Remaining items are prioritized by page traffic, program criticality, and exposure. Deliverable is a scoped work order a remediation vendor can execute against, so per-page remediation spend goes to documents that are actually in use.

Program & Policy Setup

Accessibility statement naming the standard and conformance level, Section 508 program manager designation, grievance procedure, self-evaluation documentation, procurement language requiring a VPAT or ACR before purchase, and content governance so newly published material stops regressing.

Ongoing Monitoring

Recurring scans, quality review on newly published content, and annual reassessment against the standard.

Differentiators

  • No product to sell. No overlay, no platform license, no per-page remediation quota. The recommendation follows the finding.
  • Evaluation only, never the remediation. A conformance claim written by whoever built or repaired the site is self-assessment. Staying out of the repair work is what lets the report mean something, and it gives you a specification your remediation vendor bids against rather than a per-page quote you have no way to check.
  • A tagged PDF is not a conforming PDF. Most checkers ask only whether tags exist. A document can have them and still be unreadable: no headings, tables with no header cells, images with no alt text. That is what an auto-tag pass leaves behind, and often what an agency receives after paying to have it fixed.
  • The report says what it did not check. Reading order, meaningful alt text, and focus order are not machine-detectable, and asserting conformance on automated evidence alone is how a report becomes the exhibit. An unanswered criterion reports as Not Evaluated, never as Supports.
  • Triage before spend. Most agencies are about to pay per-page rates on documents that are obsolete, duplicated, or should never have been PDFs. Sorting that first is the cheapest money in the program.
  • Built for volume. An enterprise data and automation background applied to cataloging and prioritizing document libraries that run to five figures.
  • SDVOSB set-aside eligible. Certified by SBA and active in SAM.gov, so the award path is open rather than a subcontract conversation. Available to subcontract the assessment layer under a remediation prime.
  • Set-aside vehicle. Certified Veteran Business Enterprise for state, county, municipal, and university preference.

Demonstrated Capability

Method. Findings are measured, not estimated. Where a check cannot be made honestly, for example text over a photograph where the background color is unknowable from the page, it is reported as indeterminate rather than asserted. A finding a client can disprove costs more than a finding never made.

Past performance. Newly formed, with no accessibility contract past performance to date. The reference implementation above is the firm’s own site, evaluated and remediated end to end under the same method proposed here, with the resulting report available on request. Manual assistive-technology validation at depth and high-volume document remediation are delivered with a specialist partner. Available to subcontract the assessment, inventory, and program layer under a remediation prime.