The Web Partner Your Agency Didn't Include
We help colleges, universities and K-12 schools with the two things that keep falling through the cracks: websites that aren't accessible to everyone who needs them, and content that never got built after the agency left. If either of those sounds familiar, you're in the right place.
What We Do
We work exclusively with educational institutions because this sector has its own platforms, its own calendar, and its own organizational complexity. We know Modern Campus, Cascade, Drupal, WordPress, and Blackbaud. We understand what an enrollment cycle demands of a communications team. And we know how to move a project forward inside an institution where decisions involve multiple stakeholders and nobody has enough bandwidth.
That experience is the foundation of everything we offer — from accessibility audits and remediation to content migration and page build-out.
Accessibility Isn't Optional Anymore
Over 5,100 ADA website accessibility lawsuits were filed in federal courts in 2025 — a 37% increase from the year before. Educational institutions are among the most frequently targeted.
For public K-12 districts and colleges, federal compliance deadlines are now in effect. For private schools, the legal exposure under ADA Title III is real and growing. And for all of them, an inaccessible website isn't just a legal problem, it's a barrier that turns away students, families, and community members with disabilities every single day.
Accessibility Audits
A clear, prioritized report of what's broken on your site, why it matters, and what to do about it. Written for humans, not developers.
Remediation Consulting
We work alongside your web team or developer to implement fixes, from quick PDF wins to structural or design changes, using WCAG 2.1 AA as the standard.
Ongoing Accessibility Monitoring
Accessibility isn't a one-time project. We offer periodic re-scanning and advisory support to keep your site in good shape as content evolves.
Staff Training
The most common reason accessibility problems come back after remediation is that the people creating content were never taught the rules. We train your communications, marketing, and admissions teams to create accessible content from day one.
Redesigned. Not Finished.
Agencies deliver strategy, design, and technology. The content work is almost never in their scope.
A website redesign is a significant institutional investment. Agencies deliver what they're hired for: strategy, design, and a functioning CMS. What falls outside their scope, almost universally, is the work of actually populating that CMS. Pages sit unfinished. Content goes live with formatting errors, outdated copy, or placeholder text that no one had time to replace. The communications office absorbs the overflow, usually without additional headcount or timeline relief.
That's where we come in.
Content Migration
You have hundreds, even thousands of pages in your current CMS. Your new site is built and waiting. We move your content across cleanly — reformatted, reviewed, and accessibility-compliant — so nothing gets lost and nothing goes live half-finished.
Accessibility-Integrated Build
Most content migration projects treat accessibility as an afterthought, something to fix after launch. We build it in from the start. Every page we migrate or build is checked against WCAG 2.1 AA standards as we work, so you're not inheriting a new site with the same old problems.
Page Building
Not everything on your new site is a migration. New programs need new pages, departments need rebuilds, and stakeholders across campus have been waiting. We build pages from scratch so your team doesn't have to chase content from seventeen people while managing everything else.
Content QA & Launch Prep
Most pre-launch checklists stop at code. Ours goes further. We review every page in your new CMS for formatting errors, broken links, placeholder text, style guide compliance, and accessibility issues before you go live, and deliver a prioritized fix list our team can act on immediately.
Schedule a time with us.
Ready to talk about your site? Schedule a 30-minute discovery call with Shine Media Studio. No pitch, no pressure — just a straightforward conversation about your institution's needs and whether we are the right fit.