Most individuals or organizations I talk to say the same two things about accessibility: “It matters to us” and “We honestly don’t know how we’re doing.”
That second sentence is the problem I built the Digital Ramps Scorecard, a free accessibility scorecard for your communications, to solve.
What the accessibility scorecard covers
The Digital Ramps Scorecard is a free, 25-point self-audit of your organization’s communications accessibility. It takes about 10 minutes, requires zero technical knowledge, and covers the five places your community meets your message:
- Website and written content: alt text, headings, contrast, plain language
- Social media: captions, hashtags, emojis, image text
- Email: layouts, alt text, mobile and zoom behavior
- Documents and reports: tagged PDFs, real headings, described data
- Multimedia: captions, transcripts, audio description
Each item is a plain-language statement you mark true or false. Your total lands you in one of three bands (Ramp Builder, Under Construction, or Blocked Entrance) with specific next steps for each.
Why “digital ramps”?
Just as physical ramps ensure everyone can enter a building, digital ramps ensure everyone can access your content and community. One in four U.S. adults lives with a disability. When a video has no captions or a PDF can’t be read aloud, the door is closed, usually unintentionally.
This scorecard and a website audit can help shine a light on what your organization is missing. makes the invisible visible.
What it isn’t
It isn’t a compliance assessment, a legal review, or a substitute for testing with real users. And it isn’t a report card designed to make anyone feel bad; nearly every organization starts with gaps, because nobody teaches this. The score you get is a starting line, not a verdict.
How teams are using it
- Comms directors run it on their own channels, starting with social media, to find quick wins and build the case for resources.
- Leadership teams use the five-section structure to assign ownership (“who owns email accessibility?”).
- Boards and funders increasingly ask about accessibility, a scorecard result plus a plan is a strong answer.
Get your accessibility scorecard
Request your Digital Ramps Scorecard. Ten minutes from now, you’ll know exactly where your communication reaches everyone and where it quietly doesn’t.
And if your score surprises you, book a free 30-minute discovery call. Bring your results; we’ll walk through your two weakest sections and leave you with three fixes you can make that week, whether or not we ever work together.
Gillan Ritchie is the autistic and ADHD founder of Wired Mind Media, a strategic communications agency serving nonprofits, government agencies, and higher education. With 14+ years in strategic communications, her lived neurodivergent experience shapes how the agency builds digital ramps into communications — so your message reaches everyone.