About North Fort Software

What we do

North Fort Software builds RACE1, a WordPress plugin that automatically fixes real accessibility issues in your site’s HTML — server-side, before the page ever reaches a browser. What can’t be safely automated, we flag clearly, so you always know exactly where you stand.

We’re based in Ohio and built by someone who’s spent nearly three decades in this field — not a large team, not venture-backed, just a straightforward answer to a problem that’s been ignored for too long.

What we believe

We don’t think there’s an organization anywhere that doesn’t want to be accessible. The willingness has never been the issue — it’s volume, and finding everything that needs attention across a real website. Accessibility, at its core, is about giving people access to what the rest of us take for granted. Once you see it that way, it stops being a checkbox and starts being the point.

That belief shapes everything about how RACE1 works:

We tell you the truth, always. Every finding is tracked with a real history — first seen, last seen, resolved. Every automatic fix keeps a before-and-after record. What we can’t safely fix ourselves, we say so plainly. We’ll never claim RACE1 makes your site “compliant” — no automated tool honestly can, and we won’t pretend otherwise.

When we fix something, it’s actually fixed. Not covered, not patched over with a script that runs in the visitor’s browser. RACE1 rewrites the real HTML before it’s served — so every scanner, every screen reader, every auditor sees the same thing: your genuinely corrected code.

Your data is yours. Full stop. We’ll never gate, restrict, or charge extra for access to your compliance history. You have full control over export, purging, and pruning. Guaranteed for every tier, no exceptions. It’s your data. It always was.

Why “North Fort”

The name comes from a place the founder didn’t even choose to be. Fort Lewis, Washington — specifically North Fort, the old wooden World War II barracks separated from the rest of the post. He arrived there reluctantly, reassigned after his previous installation closed down. He left Ft. Lewis with more good memories than bad, and a friendship that’s lasted decades.

It’s not a name chosen because the place was perfect. It’s a name chosen because it’s proof that something you didn’t ask for can still turn into something real. We think that’s a fitting way to think about accessibility work, too — most organizations didn’t ask for this responsibility, but the ones who take it seriously end up building something better than they expected.