Compliance isn't optional. Neither is uptime.
Public software has to work for everyone, including people using a screen reader on a slow connection on the last day of a deadline. Those are not edge cases here.
What usually breaks.
Accessibility as an afterthought
Div-based buttons, no focus states, contrast that fails at a glance. WCAG is a procurement requirement, and retrofitting it costs far more than building it in.
Deadline-day collapse
Traffic is flat for eleven months and then everyone files on the same afternoon. Prototypes are never built for that shape of load.
No audit trail
A citizen asks why their application was rejected and there is no record of who decided what, when, or on what basis.
What we'd do about it.
UI/UX & Motion
A real WCAG 2.1 AA pass: semantic markup, keyboard paths, screen reader testing, and contrast that holds up on a cheap monitor in a bright office.
Deployment & DevOps
Infrastructure that absorbs deadline-day spikes, with data residency where your regulations require it and load testing before the deadline, not after.
Security Hardening
Complete audit logging, role separation, and the documentation your tender and security review will ask for.
Fair things to ask.
Can you meet WCAG 2.1 AA?
Yes, built in rather than retrofitted: semantic markup, keyboard paths, screen reader testing, and contrast that survives a cheap monitor in a bright office.
Our traffic spikes on deadline day.
Then that's what we load test for, before the deadline rather than after it. Eleven quiet months and one impossible afternoon is a known shape.
Where will the data be stored?
Wherever your regulations require. Tell us the residency rule and we build to it.
Do you have experience with tenders?
We can produce the technical documentation a tender asks for. We don't write your bid.
What about audit logs?
Every decision recorded: who, when, and on what basis. When a citizen asks why their application was rejected, there should be an answer.
Can you work with our existing vendor?
Yes, if they'll work with us. We'd rather that than a rebuild nobody asked for.
Do you need security clearance?
Tell us what's required for the work. We won't claim clearance we don't hold.
Will it work on a slow connection?
It has to. Public software gets used on whatever device and connection people already have, not the one we'd prefer.
Working on something in Government?
Send us the repo. We'll tell you what's wrong with it before you commit to anything.
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