Spot — from ADA Legal Link
Is this place accessible? One photo tells you.
Point your camera at a doorway, a ramp, a parking space, a restroom — anywhere someone might get stuck. Spot reads it against the ADA standards and names what stands out.
One photo, about a minute, free.
One photo — a quick spot-check. No account, no sales call. Photos auto-delete after 90 days.
What Spot is for
Most barriers aren’t anyone’s fault. A step nobody measured. A door an inch too narrow. A counter that’s fine standing up and impossible sitting down. They’re easy to miss — until someone can’t get in — and easy to find if you point a camera at them.
Spot is the fast way to look before it’s a problem. Whether you run the place, work there, or just wondered walking past: take a photo, get a straight read.
Wondering because you ran into a barrier yourself, as a visitor? Spot is built for checking a place. If you’ve hit a barrier and want to know your rights, talk to Ada instead. She’s the side of this built for you.
How this works
Take one photo. Point it at whatever you’re wondering about. Stand back far enough to show the space around it — a lot of what matters is the room to approach, reach and turn.
Get a free read. We name what stands out — a lip at the door, a ramp pitched too steep, a grab bar on the wrong wall, a counter too high to reach sitting down — and how serious each one looks.
Go deeper if you want. Add a few more angles of that same spot and we build the full report: what each finding means, which rule it points to, and what people usually do about it.
What you can point it at
Point it at the parking space, the curb ramp, the walk up to the door. The door itself — the lip, the width, the handle. The restroom, the grab bar, the sink. The counter you order at, the table you’d sit at.
A barrier is wherever someone hits it.
Spot reads your photo against the 2010 ADA Standards and only speaks to what’s actually in the frame. It won’t flag something that isn’t in the picture — and when it can’t tell from the angle you gave it, it says so instead of guessing.
What you get
Free — one photo
What stands out, and how serious it looks. Enough to know whether you’ve got something to look at.
Full report — up to 5 angles, $79
One spot, photographed from several sides and read together. What each finding is, why it matters, and what people usually do about it. Yours to keep and hand to a contractor.
What this is — and what it isn’t
Spot is a screening tool. A fast set of eyes, not a tape measure.
- We can’t certify that anything is compliant, and we won’t tell you something is a violation. That takes a person on site with a tape measure.
- A clean read isn’t a clean bill of health. It means nothing stood out in that photo.
- This isn’t legal advice, and we’re not your lawyer.
What it is: the fastest honest answer to “should I be worried about this?”
Who we are
ADA Legal Link. We spend our days on the other side of this — with the people who turned around and left, and with the attorneys they eventually called. Access is a right, not a suggestion. And almost none of what we see is malice: it’s a step nobody measured, a door nobody thought about. Nobody meant to build a barrier; it’s there anyway. Easier to find it yourself, now, than to hear about it later from someone else.
Your photo
Uploaded photos are deleted automatically after 90 days. The read we generate is kept separately, so you can come back to it after the photo is gone. Full details in our Privacy Policy.
Can a photo tell you if a building is ADA compliant
No single photo can certify a building as ADA compliant. Spot doesn't inspect or certify anything. What Spot does is give you a free screening read: point your camera at a doorway, ramp, parking space or restroom, and Spot names what stands out and how serious it looks.
A full compliance check usually means measurements, multiple angles and sometimes a professional survey. Spot is a faster first look, useful for spotting things worth a closer check, not a replacement for one.
How the Spot photo check works
Spot reads your photo against the 2010 ADA Standards and only speaks to what's actually in the frame. For a parking space, that might mean the width of the access aisle. For a doorway, the clear width or a lip at the threshold. For a restroom, where the grab bar sits.
The free read covers one photo. If you want more, add a few more angles of that same spot and get the $79 full report, covering up to 5 photos, with what each finding means and which rule it points to.
What Spot won't tell you
Spot never calls a finding a violation, non-compliant, or illegal. It names a barrier and how serious it looks, nothing more. Whether a place is legally required to fix something generally depends on details Spot can't see in one photo, like when the building was built or altered. For that kind of question, the ADA Standards Guide walks through what the standards generally require, and small business owners can start with the small business primer.
If you hit a barrier yourself and want to know your rights, Spot isn't the right tool. Ada, our AI intake assistant, is opening soon for that.
Before you take the photo
Stand back far enough to show the space around whatever you're checking. A lot of what matters to Spot's read is the room to approach, reach and turn, not just the door or ramp itself.