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WCAG Admin Accessibility Tools provides a dual approach to accessibility improvements in WordPress: practical diagnostic tools for admins and editors, and optional front-end visual enhancements for users.
This plugin is primarily designed to complement the WAVE browser extension by WebAIM by offering tools that WAVE doesn’t cover or that we wanted to improve on. For a more complete accessibility review, using both is recommended.
Features: 
– Accessibility Admin Bar Tools: Adds a front-end admin bar menu with auto-check and toggleable visual checks for accessibility issues: 
 – Missing Alt Text 
 – Poor Color Contrast (AA/AAA) 
 – Vague Link Text (e.g. “click here”) 
 – Improper Heading Hierarchy (e.g. skipping from H2 to H4) 
 – Links Missing Underlines (excluding buttons and navs) 
– Skip to Content Link: Inserts a visually hidden “Skip to main content” link at the top of each page for improved keyboard navigation. 
– Alt Text Column & Inline Editing: Adds an “Alt Text” column to the Media Library list view, including an edit option for quickly updating missing or incorrect image alt text. 
– Additional Media Columns: Adds columns for image dimensions, MIME type (e.g. <code>image/png</code>, <code>application/zip</code>), and file size. 
– Frontend User Assistant: Adds an accessibility toolbox that includes tools such as Text Resizer, Readable Font, and Modes (default, dark, and greyscale), optionally placed as: 
 – A floating toggle 
 – A navigation menu item 
 – A shortcode (<code>[wcagaat_assistant]</code>) 
– Logo Swap in Dark Mode: Optionally swap logos when dark mode is enabled. 
– Auto-Detect Device Dark Mode: If the user’s device is set to dark mode, a prompt will ask if they would like to enable dark mode for this site. 
– Custom Visibility Rules: Choose who can see the frontend mode switcher — everyone, logged-in users, or just admins. 
– Custom Vague Phrases: Configure your own list of vague link texts to scan for (e.g. “read more, learn more, click here”).
WCAG Admin Accessibility Tools gives you clear, actionable insights directly in the WordPress UI to improve accessibility compliance faster.

WCAG Admin Accessibility Tools

Accessibility diagnostics and tools for alt text, contrast, vague links, and more.

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AccessMate scans your WordPress site for WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility issues, scores each page, and provides guided fixes — all from your WordPress dashboard.
Zero running cost for you. AccessMate is 100% free. AI features (code fixes, plain-English explanations) use your own API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, or a local Ollama instance. Your key is stored encrypted in your database and never proxied through our servers.
<h4>♿ Core features</h4>
✔ Accessibility scanner — checks 12 WCAG 2.1 AA rules on every page of your site 
✔ Score & grade — A–F accessibility score with POUR (Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust) breakdown 
✔ Issue detail panel — shows the offending HTML, WCAG criterion, and affected element count 
✔ Issues by page — stacked bar chart showing critical/warning/notice counts per page 
✔ Visitor accessibility toolbar — minimal floating widget with 10 user-controlled accessibility features 
✔ AI auto-fix (requires API key) — generates corrected HTML for fixable issues 
✔ AI explanations (requires API key) — plain-English summaries for non-technical site owners
<h4>12 WCAG rules checked</h4>
<ol>
<li>Images missing alt text (WCAG 1.1.1)</li>
<li>Colour contrast heuristic (WCAG 1.4.3)</li>
<li>Data tables missing headers (WCAG 1.3.1)</li>
<li>Missing landmark elements (WCAG 1.3.6)</li>
<li>Interactive elements not keyboard accessible (WCAG 2.1.1)</li>
<li>CSS animations without reduced-motion guard (WCAG 2.3.3)</li>
<li>Links with non-descriptive text (WCAG 2.4.4)</li>
<li>Skipped or empty heading levels (WCAG 2.4.6)</li>
<li>Focus indicator removed via CSS (WCAG 2.4.7)</li>
<li>HTML lang attribute missing (WCAG 3.1.1)</li>
<li>Form inputs missing label association (WCAG 4.1.2)</li>
<li>Invalid ARIA role attributes (WCAG 4.1.2)</li>
</ol>
<h4>Visitor accessibility widget features</h4>
✔ Font size 
✔ High contrast 
✔ Dyslexia font 
✔ Grayscale 
✔ Reading guide 
✔ Pause animations 
✔ Line height 
✔ Large cursor 
✔ Highlight links 
✔ Screen mask
<h4>AI providers supported</h4>
<ul>
<li>Anthropic Claude (claude-haiku-4-5, claude-sonnet-4)</li>
<li>OpenAI (gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4o)</li>
<li>Google Gemini (gemini-1.5-flash, gemini-1.5-pro)</li>
<li>Ollama (local, no key needed — llama3.2, mistral, phi3)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
AccessMate makes no external requests unless you configure an AI provider and trigger an AI action. When an AI action is triggered, your WordPress server makes a direct request to your chosen provider using your key. No data passes through AccessMate servers. The API key is encrypted at rest using AES-256-CBC with your WordPress auth salt.
<h3>Third Party Libraries</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core" rel="nofollow ugc">axe-core</a> by Deque Systems — Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)</li>
<li><a href="https://fontsource.org/fonts/opendyslexic" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenDyslexic font via Fontsource</a> — Bitstream Vera Fonts License — loaded on demand from jsDelivr CDN only when the dyslexia font feature is enabled by the visitor</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin can connect to the following external services. No external requests are made unless you explicitly configure and trigger the relevant feature.
<h4>AI providers (optional)</h4>
When you add an API key and click an AI action (auto-fix suggestion, alt-text generation, or accessibility report summary), your WordPress server sends a direct HTTPS request to your chosen AI provider. The request contains the page HTML snippet and accessibility issue context being analysed. No data passes through AccessMate servers. These requests are only sent when you have entered an API key in Settings and manually trigger an AI action.
Anthropic — <code>https://api.anthropic.com/</code> 
Used for: AI fix suggestions, alt-text generation, accessibility report summaries. 
Data sent: page HTML snippet, accessibility issue context, and your Anthropic API key (in the request header). 
<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
OpenAI — <code>https://api.openai.com/</code> 
Used for: AI fix suggestions, alt-text generation, accessibility report summaries. 
Data sent: page HTML snippet, accessibility issue context, and your OpenAI API key (in the request header). 
<a href="https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
Google Gemini — <code>https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/</code> 
Used for: AI fix suggestions, alt-text generation, accessibility report summaries. 
Data sent: page HTML snippet, accessibility issue context, and your Gemini API key (as a URL parameter). 
<a href="https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
Ollama — <code>http://localhost:11434/</code> (local only) 
Ollama runs entirely on the user’s own machine or local network. No data is sent to any external server.
<h4>jsDelivr CDN (visitor-facing, on demand)</h4>
When a site visitor enables the Dyslexia Font feature in the accessibility toolbar, their browser loads the OpenDyslexic font stylesheet from jsDelivr. This is a standard browser-initiated HTTP request that includes the visitor’s IP address and User-Agent string. The font is cached locally after the first load; no further requests are made on subsequent pages. This request is triggered only by the visitor explicitly toggling the dyslexia font feature — it is never loaded automatically.
jsDelivr — <code>https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/</code> 
<a href="https://www.jsdelivr.com/privacy-policy-jsdelivr-net" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>

AccessMate – AI Accessibility Scanner & Widget

AI-powered WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility scanner with auto-fix suggestions and a visitor-facing accessibility toolbar. Free — bring your own AI key.

WCAG Admin Accessibility Tools vs AccessMate – AI Accessibility Scanner & Widget