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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.

NETPROFIT

This WordPress plugin automatically generates skip links for every menu on your website, improving navigation for users relying on screen readers or keyboard navigation. 
It also seamlessly integrates with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-table-of-contents/" rel="ugc">Easy Table of Contents</a> plugin, adding skip links to table of contents menus when installed.
By implementing skip links, the plugin helps meet the WCAG 2.1 Level A <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/navigation-mechanisms-skip.html" rel="nofollow ugc">“Bypass Blocks”</a> criterion, ensuring users can easily skip repetitive content and navigate directly to the main content of a page.
Simplifying navigation in this way makes your WordPress site more accessible and user-friendly, providing a better experience for all visitors with just one click.
<h4>The Bypass Blocks Criterion</h4>
The intent of this Success Criterion is to allow people who navigate sequentially through content more direct access to the primary content of the Web page.
Specific Benefits of Success Criterion 2.4.1:
<ul>
<li>When this Success Criterion is not satisfied, it may be difficult for people with some disabilities to reach the main content of a Web page quickly and easily.</li>
<li>Screen reader users who visit several pages on the same site can avoid having to hear all heading graphics and dozens of navigation links on every page before the main content is spoken.</li>
<li>People who use only the keyboard or a keyboard interface can reach content with fewer keystrokes. Otherwise, they might have to make dozens of keystrokes before reaching a link in the main content area. This can take a long time and may cause severe physical pain for some users.</li>
<li>People who use screen magnifiers do not have to search through the same headings or other blocks of information to find where the content begins each time they enter a new page.</li>
<li>People with cognitive limitations as well as people who use screen readers may benefit when links are grouped into lists.</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/navigation-mechanisms-skip.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more about Success Criterion 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks</a>
<h4>Supported Languages</h4>
The plugin automatically detects the clients preferred language and takes this into account when generating the skip link. 
The following languages are supported currently:
<ul>
<li>English (default)</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Portuguese</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Czech</li>
</ul>

Skip Links for Menus


Installing the plugin is enough to have skip links on all menus of a website; simple and easy. More options with support for different kinds of skip links would be great, though.


Simple plugin to add skip links with one click

Automatically adds skip links to WordPress menus and Easy Table of Contents to comply to the WCAG bypass blocks accessibility criterion.

WCAG Admin Accessibility Tools vs Skip Links for Menus