Case Study
What a real assessment looks like: zinger.io
Most compliance vendors show you a brochure. We show you the actual work. Below is a genuine preliminary assessment of zinger.io — published with the site owner’s permission — exactly as a client would receive it.
32 / 100 · Grade F
What the assessment found
The preliminary sweep of the homepage verified three failure types affecting twelve elements — every one of them the kind of barrier that appears in real ADA web complaints:
Critical — Images without text alternatives
A screen-reader user reaching these images hears nothing useful. If an image carries meaning — a product, a promotion, a chart — that meaning is simply gone for blind customers. This is the single most-cited failure in web accessibility complaints.
Serious — Insufficient color contrast (8 elements)
Eight text elements don’t meet the 4.5:1 minimum contrast ratio. Customers with low vision, older customers, and anyone on a dim or glare-hit screen will struggle to read them.
Serious — Links with no discernible text (3 elements)
Three links — typically icon-only links — announce themselves to a screen reader as just “link.” Users can’t tell where they lead without clicking blind.
The remediation path
Each finding comes with element-level locations and
code-level guidance. For this site — a custom build served from cloud object storage —
all three failure types are template-level fixes a developer can complete in a
day or two: alt attributes on meaningful images, adjusted color tokens for
the eight low-contrast elements, and aria-labels on the icon links.
A re-test then confirms the fixes and issues an updated score.
Read the full report, as delivered
Why a failing grade matters
A homepage that fails a preliminary sweep this clearly is exactly what serial plaintiffs’ firms screen for — they run the same category of tooling we do, at scale, looking for defendants. Finding and fixing these barriers first is the entire premise of preventative compliance: the same report that would have been an exhibit becomes a punch list.
This assessment is published with the authorization of the zinger.io site owner. Preliminary scores reflect a software sweep verified by a human reviewer; full engagements add manual screen-reader and keyboard testing across user flows.