What getting a practice website ready for Section 504 costs, and how long it takes

It depends mostly on whether the problems are in a few pages or in the templates and forms, in which case a rebuild usually costs less than patching. Our fixed prices start at $2,900, and a practice facing the 11 May 2027 date should have chosen who does the work by February.

Written by the nextwebsite.co team, and last checked on November 9, 2026.

What decides the cost

Getting a practice website ready for the Section 504 rule means meeting WCAG 2.1 AA across the site, booking and forms¹. What it costs depends on four things:

Fix or rebuild. A recent, well-built site with a handful of problems can be fixed. A site whose problems are in the theme, the page builder or the forms usually costs less to rebuild than to patch page by page.
How many pages and locations. Each location page, service page and form has to be tested and fixed.
Vendors. Booking, bill pay and portals that come from vendors can't be fixed by your web team; they're fixed by the vendor, or replaced.
Forms. Turning PDF intake forms into accessible web forms is often the biggest single piece of work, and the one patients notice most.

What the market charges

Among agencies that publish their prices, a custom small-business site costs $4,000 to $18,000². Keeping an old site on a care plan typically costs $199 to $499 a month³. Be wary of anyone who offers compliance for a monthly widget fee: in 2025 the FTC ordered one overlay vendor to pay $1 million for claiming its tool could make any website comply with WCAG⁴.

Our prices

Our prices are fixed after a free check: from $2,900 for up to ten pages, and from $6,500 for practices with booking, forms and several locations. Every site we build is tested to WCAG 2.2 AA, which includes 2.1 AA, by machine and by a person using a keyboard and a screen reader, and you keep a dated record of the tests. Hosting is included, and your staff can edit the site afterwards. See pricing for what's included.

How long it takes

For most sites our build takes ten days from the check to launch. What takes longer is everything around it: deciding, getting vendors to answer, agreeing content, and testing. For a provider with 15 or more employees facing the 11 May 2027 date¹, a realistic plan is:

By January: check the site, list the vendors and ask them for their accessibility reports.
By February: choose who does the work and agree a launch date with a month to spare.
March and April: build, test and fix; replace any vendor that can't meet the standard.
May: publish the accessibility statement and file the test record.

Budgeting

If your practice sets its budget in the autumn or winter, put the work in the coming year's budget now, even if the date moves again; it has moved once already⁵. The patients who struggle with the site are there either way. Start with our free check, which shows what needs doing.

This guide is general information, not legal advice.

Checklist

Get a check of the current site, booking and forms.
Decide whether to fix or rebuild, based on where the problems are.
Ask vendors whether booking, bill pay and portals meet the standard.
Put the work in the coming year's budget, with a month to spare before the deadline.

Check your own site

The free scan checks your pages for the accessibility problems a machine can find, and marks the checks that need a person. It takes under a minute.

Or run just this check: the accessibility checker.