About the bench
Rampline reads website builders through one narrow question, refuses to answer a second one it is not qualified for, and writes down which is which.
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Rampline is a small independent publication about accessibility and website builders. It exists because the question people actually type — some version of "which builder is ADA compliant" — has a real answer underneath it that almost nobody gives them, and a false answer that is very profitable to sell.
Who this is for
Someone running a small business, a charity, a practice or a side project on a mainstream website builder, who has become aware that accessibility is a real obligation and a real thing to get right, and who has just discovered that every search result is either a law firm or somebody selling a widget.
You do not need to be technical to use this site. Most of what is here can be done in an afternoon with a keyboard and a browser.
Three rules
One. Nothing here is legal advice, and no page implies otherwise. Whether a particular site meets a particular obligation in a particular jurisdiction is a question for a lawyer who can look at your situation. Everything here is a description of what platforms do and what standards say.
Two. Facts that could hurt someone if wrong get a source and a verification date, kept in the repository where anyone can read them, along with a list of the things we went looking for and could not stand behind. That second list is not empty and it is not hidden.
Three. We do not take money from anyone selling an accessibility overlay. Not because it would be unprofitable — it would be the opposite — but because the argument on that page cannot survive it.
Where the name comes from
A ramp is the least glamorous piece of accessibility infrastructure there is, and the most honest. Nobody installs one and declares the building solved. It is one specific measure, at one specific entrance, that either works at the required gradient or does not. The line at the edge of it is there so that people can see where the ground changes.
That is roughly the ambition: specific things, measured, at a stated gradient, with the edge marked.
How this site pays for itself
A few destinations here are partner destinations, and a platform pays us when somebody subscribes after following one. Your price does not move. The whole arrangement, including the category of company whose money the bench turns down, is laid out in the affiliate disclosure.
The thing that keeps this honest is structural rather than a promise: the assessment method is published, the fragile facts are in the repository with their sources, and the one page on this site most likely to lose a sale is the one we would least be willing to change.
The recheck notice
When a platform quietly changes what it gives you
Builders move accessibility features without a changelog: a theme restyles its focus ring, a wizard learns a check, a field migrates to another panel. The recheck list is meant to carry one short note whenever a page here has to be corrected. It is not switched on yet, so this form keeps nothing — until it is, the re-measured date at the foot of each page is the record.