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Accessibility Tool kit is a powerful WordPress accessibility plugin that helps make your entire WordPress site compliant with a11y standards, including WCAG 2.1 level A and AA, Section 508, and ARIA guidelines.
The plugin helps you detect and address common accessibility issues on your WordPress website, from missing labels to improper heading structure and keyboard navigation traps.
Accessibility Toolkit is ideal for site administrators, developers, and agencies seeking to create more inclusive and user-friendly websites.
See our detailed <a href="https://www.webyes.com/documentation/wordpress-accessibility-toolkit-plugin-setup/" rel="nofollow ugc">guide to set up the WordPress Accessibility tool</a>.
Disclaimer: Accessibility Toolkit helps identify and address many common accessibility issues. However, it does not guarantee complete compliance with WCAG, ADA, or other accessibility laws and regulations. Additionally, some requirements, such as writing accurate image alt text, ensuring link purpose clarity, and maintaining proper heading/content hierarchy, still require manual review and human judgment.
For full legal compliance, we recommend conducting a comprehensive accessibility audit and remediation process.
Watch this video to learn how the plugin works
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<h3>More than an Accessibility Widget or an Overlay Widget</h3>
Accessibility Tool Kit is not an accessibility widget or an overlay. The plugin aims to remediate accessibility issues and fix barriers at the code level without compromising the performance of the website. 
The plugin does not add JavaScript to modify how people with disabilities and users of assistive technologies interact with your website. Instead, this web accessibility WordPress plugin helps you:
<ul>
<li>Improve WordPress accessibility compliance without needing to code</li>
<li>Strengthen screen reader accessibility with better markup and ARIA attributes</li>
<li>Ensure more accessible links and forms sitewide</li>
<li>Make your site usable for keyboard-only navigation</li>
<li>Provide mobile zoom and readability enhancements for on-the-go visitors</li>
<li>Show commitment to inclusivity, build user trust, and support legal compliance with an accessibility statement.</li>
<li>Test website accessibility and give more control to users on how they choose to view the website with Accessibility Toolbar.</li>
</ul>
Accessibility Tool Kit, coupled with accessibility tester and validator tools like <a href="https://www.webyes.com/accessibility-checker/" rel="nofollow ugc">WebYes</a>, can help identify accessibility issues and provide guidance on how to fix them.
<h3>Accessibility Tool Kit Features for your WordPress Web Accessibility Goals</h3>
Website accessibility is crucial because around 15% of the world’s population, approximately 1 billion people, live with some form of disability. Ensuring your website is accessible and compliant with standards like WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) level A, AA, and AAA, and legal frameworks such as the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the EAA (European Accessibility Act) creates an inclusive experience for people with diverse needs.
Below are the core features of the plugin that will help you reach your WordPress website accessibility goals:
<ul>
<li>Accessibility Checker – adds a front-end scanning widget to identify potential accessibility issues on your WordPress site. The checker detects WCAG violations such as missing labels, poor contrast, or improper heading structure, helping you understand where improvements are needed.</li>
<li>Issue Fixes – dynamically add code-level fixes to your website. </li>
<li>Accessibility toolbar – to help users with disability make necessary adjustments on your website to meet their unique accessibility needs.</li>
<li>Accessibility Statement Generator – easily generate and add an accessibility statement to your website per various laws, like the European Accessibility Act (EAA) or the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Accessibility Checker for WordPress</h3>
The WordPress Accessibility Checker feature adds a front-end scanning widget that allows administrators to identify potential accessibility issues directly on the website. 
Key Highlights:
<ul>
<li>Adds a front-end scanning widget visible only to administrators.</li>
<li>Detects WCAG violations such as missing alt text, low color contrast, improper heading hierarchy, and unlabeled form fields.</li>
<li>Provides on-page visual indicators to pinpoint accessibility issues directly within the site layout.</li>
<li>Displays a summary of detected issues in an easy-to-read panel for quick reference.</li>
<li>Does not modify or overlay your website’s content or design; instead, it analyzes the underlying code to identify areas that need attention.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Dynamic Issue Fixes</h3>
This includes the following features that guide you towards the first steps in accessibility remediation.
<ul>
<li>Improved readability – ensures screen readers interpret text and language correctly.</li>
<li>Logical keyboard navigation – maintains natural tab flow and focus throughout the page.</li>
<li>Skip to content – lets users jump straight to the main content using the keyboard.</li>
<li>Visible focus indicators– highlight the active element clearly during keyboard use.</li>
<li>Clear and meaningful labels – adds helpful names to elements for better screen reader support.</li>
<li>Mobile-friendly zoom – allows users to zoom on mobile without breaking the layout.</li>
<li>Accessible links – make links stand out clearly and visibly without relying on color.</li>
<li>Predictable link behaviour – avoids unexpected new tabs or windows.</li>
<li>Link opening notices – alerts users when a link opens in a new tab or window.</li>
<li>Labelled form fields – ensures every input field has a proper label for accessibility.</li>
<li>Accessible search fields – adds clear labels to search bars for easier use.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Accessibility Toolbar</h3>
Accessibility Toolbar is an interactive widget designed to make your site more inclusive and user-friendly.
With this toolbar, website admins can give visitors more control over their browsing experience. The toolbar appears as a small, customizable widget on the front end of your website and offers several helpful tools:
<ul>
<li>Adjustable Font Size: Users can increase or decrease text size across your site for better readability.</li>
<li>Color Contrast Options: Switch between different color contrast modes to improve visibility and accessibility. This will also help you quickly test how the site performs under different visual conditions, particularly for users with low vision or color blindness.</li>
<li>Greyscale Mode: View your website in greyscale to test visual contrast and ensure elements are color independent.</li>
</ul>
Admins can use this feature to let visitors personalize how they view content on their website.
<h3>Accessibility Statement Generator</h3>
An accessibility statement is a public declaration of your website’s commitment to accessibility. 
It informs visitors about the steps you have taken to make your content accessible and what measures are in place to support users with disabilities.
With this feature, you can:
<ul>
<li>Quickly create and publish an accessibility statement on your site</li>
<li>Demonstrate transparency and inclusivity to your audience</li>
<li>Show compliance with legal frameworks like the ADA, Section 508, and the European Accessibility Act (EAA)</li>
<li>Build trust with users by clearly communicating your accessibility efforts</li>
</ul>
Publishing an accessibility statement not only improves user confidence but also helps reduce the risk of legal complaints by showing that you are actively working toward compliance.
<h3>Accessibility Is a Right, Not a Bonus</h3>
Accessibility helps ensure your website is welcoming and usable for everyone, including people with disabilities. This WP accessibility toolkit helps you improve accessibility with practical tools, while supporting the ongoing work of review, testing, and refinement.

Accessibility Tool Kit: WP Accessibility plugin for WCAG, Section 508, ADA, EAA Compliance

Powerful WordPress accessibility plugin to detect and fix WCAG issues, improve usability, and support ADA, EAA, and Section 508 compliance.

Steve Jones

Amber Hinds

Road Warrior Creative

philwebs

Equalize Digital

<h3>Make Your Website Accessible with Accessibility Checker</h3>
Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker helps you find and fix accessibility issues in WordPress. Scan posts and pages as you edit, review WCAG-based issues inside WordPress, apply automated fixes for common barriers, and generate an accessibility statement to support your compliance efforts.
Whether you’re improving compliance with accessibility laws, working toward Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) conformance, or making your website easier for everyone to use, Accessibility Checker gives your team a practical workflow for ongoing accessibility testing and remediation.
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<h3>Why Make Your Website Accessible</h3>
Laws around the world, such as the European Accessibility Act (EAA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Section 508, among others, require websites to be accessible and usable by people with disabilities. Accessibility may be required for your website to be legally compliant.
Accessibility fixes on websites often translate to better overall usability on the site and can improve search engine ranking and conversions.
Including Accessibility Checker on your website and fixing identified problems can help you to:
<ul>
<li>Reduce legal risk.</li>
<li>Improve SEO and increase reach.</li>
<li>Increase sales and conversions.</li>
<li>Reduce operational costs by allowing more people to self-serve on your website.</li>
<li>Live your organizational values.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Real-Time WordPress Accessibility Scanning</h3>
Accessibility Checker scans your content each time you save or publish and shows accessibility problems directly in the WordPress editor. You can review issues without leaving the edit screen, or switch to a front-end view to see exactly which elements need attention.
Accessibility Checker runs over 40 automated checks based on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 and provides documentation for every issue so content creators, site owners, and developers can fix problems faster.
<h3>Automated Accessibility Fixes</h3>
Need help resolving accessibility issues on your website? Accessibility Checker includes one-click fixes for common accessibility barriers in themes and plugins.
<ul>
<li>Add skip links</li>
<li>Add focus outlines</li>
<li>Block links from opening new windows</li>
<li>Force links to be underlined</li>
<li>Label comment fields</li>
<li>Label search fields</li>
<li>Add missing <code>lang</code> & <code>dir</code> attributes</li>
<li>Make the viewport scalable</li>
<li>Remove positive tab index to fix incorrect focus order</li>
<li>Remove title attributes from elements with preferred accessible names</li>
<li>Add warnings to links that open in new tabs</li>
<li>Show error message for empty search submissions</li>
<li>Add file size & type to links [Pro]</li>
<li>Add missing page titles [Pro]</li>
<li>Block PDF uploads [Pro]</li>
<li>Label form fields [Pro]</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supports Accessibility Compliance Efforts</h3>
Laws and policies around the world require websites to be accessible. Accessibility Checker helps teams identify issues early, document progress, and support conformance work related to ADA, Section 508, AODA, EAA, WCAG, and more.
<ul>
<li>Find problems faster.</li>
<li>Learn accessibility as you go.</li>
<li>Apply automated fixes for common barriers.</li>
<li>Track changes over time. [Pro]</li>
<li>Get personalized support and custom plans for more complex remediation needs. [Pro]</li>
</ul>
Accessibility Checker scans run on your server. This means there are no URL-based scanning limits or API-usage fees. Get unlimited scanning of posts and pages without worrying about costs each time you scan.
<h3>Why Accessibility Checker</h3>
Accessibility Checker is designed to support both day-to-day publishing and broader accessibility initiatives.
<ul>
<li>No limits on pages scanned. Scan as many posts and pages as your site contains.</li>
<li>Built by accessibility professionals. Equalize Digital team members include certified accessibility professionals and experienced WordPress accessibility practitioners.</li>
<li>WCAG 2.2 A, AA, and AAA guidance. Review issues against current WCAG success criteria.</li>
<li>Readability analysis and simplified summary support. Check Flesch-Kincaid grade level and add a simplified summary for WCAG Success Criterion 3.1.5 Reading Level.</li>
<li>Remove issues from reports. Dismiss items that have been manually reviewed and found not relevant or remediated, with notes, usernames, and timestamps.</li>
<li>Accessibility statement generator. Draft an accessibility statement that you can customize and publish on your website.</li>
<li>Footer accessibility statement. Insert an accessibility statement into your footer with one click.</li>
<li>Detailed documentation. Use help articles and instructions for every issue to guide remediation.</li>
<li>[Pro] Bulk scanning. Scan all posts and pages in bulk for a site-wide overview.</li>
<li>[Pro] Scan additional post types. Extend in-editor accessibility checks to more content types.</li>
<li>[Pro] Admin columns. View accessibility status at a glance in content lists.</li>
<li>[Pro] Full-site reports. See existing issues in one place for faster remediation.</li>
<li>[Pro] Dismissed Log. Review dismissed issues, who dismissed them, and when.</li>
<li>[Pro] User restrictions on Dismiss. Limit which roles can dismiss issues.</li>
</ul>
Additional paid add-ons include:
<ul>
<li>Audit History add-on: track and report on changes over time.</li>
<li>CSV Export add-on: export issues to CSV for management in a spreadsheet or project management tool.</li>
<li>Multisite add-on: see accessibility status and manage settings for all sites in your network.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
To get started with Accessibility Checker or learn more about how it works, see our <a href="https://equalizedigital.com/accessibility-checker/getting-started-quick-guide/" rel="nofollow ugc">Getting Started Quick Guide</a> or watch this video demonstration. Please note that the video includes some features available only in the paid version.
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<h3>Support</h3>
The Equalize Digital team provides regular support for Accessibility Checker on the WordPress.org forums. If you have a question about the plugin or its use, please post in the support forum and the team will do its best to respond quickly. Support hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM U.S. Central.
If you need one-on-one email support, please consider purchasing <a href="https://equalizedigital.com/accessibility-checker/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Accessibility Checker Pro</a>. Pro customers receive unlimited personal support on plugin usage and features.
Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/wordpress.accessibility" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Accessibility Facebook Group</a> for community support and to connect with other developers, designers, and content creators working to make websites more accessible.
For paid Accessibility Checker customers on a small business plan or above, we provide two accessibility <a href="https://equalizedigital.com/learn/office-hours/" rel="nofollow ugc">office hours</a> calls each month to answer remediation questions.
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
Accessibility Checker supports multiple WordPress editing and site-building workflows and has been tested with:
<ul>
<li>Gutenberg Block Editor</li>
<li>The Classic Editor</li>
<li>Advanced Custom Fields</li>
<li>Avada</li>
<li>Beaver Builder</li>
<li>Divi</li>
<li>Elementor</li>
<li>Oxygen</li>
<li>WP Bakery</li>
<li>[Pro] WooCommerce</li>
</ul>
<h3>Learn Accessibility</h3>
Want to learn more about accessibility and stay on-top of accessibility best practices? Attend an official WordPress Accessibility Meetup!
These free virtual meetups are held twice per month via Zoom and are live captioned. <a href="https://equalizedigital.com/wordpress-accessibility-meetup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about WP Accessibility Meetup</a>
<h3>About Us</h3>
<a href="https://equalizedigital.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Equalize Digital</a> is a mission-driven organization striving to create a world where all people have equal access to products and tools on web, regardless of ability. Our team has been building custom WordPress websites, themes, and plugins since 2010. We’re the trusted accessibility auditing team for WordPress plugin developers and organizations worldwide, including government, higher education, nonprofit, and enterprise businesses.

Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance

If you care about the people visiting your site, you should install this plugin.

If you care about the sites you develop for clients, you should install this plugin.

If you want a quick and easy way to take your best efforts at creating a site, and turn them into great sites, you should install this plugin.

Want to spot all the ways your "premium" theme is actually not all that great? You got it: install this plugin. Warning: this plugin will make you want to get a refund from your theme shop, and to go to a theme shop that actually cares about *their* product.

There are very few plugins in WordPress that make literally every site they touch better. This is one. 

An absolute must-have.

... this plugin is for you.

This plugin isn't a band-aid overlay that clutters the site, doesn't improve accessibility, and affects performance. 

Rather, Accessibility Checker works in the WP Admin by scanning the site and providing a straightforward, prioritized list of actionable advice on improving accessibility. This is backed by great documentation, support, and community involvement from Equalize Digital.

Our company upgraded to the paid version for CPT support and the other premium features – I can't recommend it highly enough.



If you care about accessibility . . .


This plugin is an absolute LIFESAVER that serves as a second pair of eyes as I build out pages and posts on my website. If you are looking to improve the accessibility of your websites, this plugin is *the* answer. It will not only point out any potential issues, but it does a great job of leading you to resources on how to fix thing in case you get stuck. Not to mention the team behind it... Equalize Digital is the go-to for website accessibility! Thanks for the awesome plugin! 


Livesaver!


I love this plugin. It's been really easy to train my clients to use when they are working with their content. And they have great support!


Love this plugin!


One of the things I love about this plugin is that it doesn't fix things for me. It shows me what needs to be fixed, and directs me to information on how to do that. Learning about web accessibility to make me a better web citizen is paramount to being able to create accessible sites for all.






Making my site more accessible by teaching me how to do it

Another good plugin on WordPress.org


Works well, but double check with a screen reader. Then, use the Ignore feature to clear each page. 


Yes!

Find and fix accessibility issues with confidence. Real-time reports, automated fixes, and guidance. Reduce compliance risk and reach more users.

Accessibility Tool Kit: WP Accessibility plugin for WCAG, Section 508, ADA, EAA Compliance vs Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance