AcceGuru - Accessibility Scanner, Auto-Fixer & AI Alt Text

AcceGuru helps identify and address accessibility issues related to ADA, WCAG 2.0 / 2.1 / 2.2, Section 508, EN 301 549, the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, the European Accessibility Act (EAA), AODA, the UK Equality Act 2010, and other accessibility laws and standards. Automated testing cannot establish legal compliance or complete WCAG conformance; manual review is still required. The axe-core scanner checks selected posts, pages and public custom post types from one dashboard. Saved results appear in the Block Editor sidebar and A11y post-list column, while the front-end overlay highlights affected elements on the live page. AcceGuru also provides toggleable accessibility fixers, site-wide ignored rules, optional AI-generated alt text using your own provider key, and an accessibility statement generator. Key features

• axe-core plus AcceGuru checks, filtered by the selected WCAG level and recommended-checks setting
• Dashboard scan with progress, pause/resume, failed-page retry, log export and content-type coverage
• Block Editor sidebar, A11y post-list column and front-end issue highlighter
• 13 independently toggleable fixers and site-wide ignored rules
• Optional single, bulk and on-upload AI alt-text generation
• Accessibility statement page, shortcode and optional footer link
• Translation-ready (text domain acceguru)

Auto-fixers Low-impact fixes are enabled on install. Appearance-changing fixes are off by default. Settings -> Fixers provides separate controls for skip links, focus outlines, language attributes, search and comment-form labels, empty searches, new-window and document-link labels, link underlines, video controls, positive tabindex, redundant titles and viewport scaling. Standards & laws coverage

• WCAG 2.0 / 2.1 / 2.2 - selectable levels A, AA and AAA
• Recommended checks - optional axe-core and AcceGuru checks that are not formal WCAG failures
• Section 508 and EN 301 549 - optional axe-core tagged rules
• Accessibility laws - the ADA, the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, the EAA, AODA and the UK Equality Act, which point to the standards above rather than defining their own technical tests

Accessibility requirements vary by jurisdiction. AcceGuru does not determine or guarantee legal compliance or complete WCAG conformance. AI providers AI alt text is optional and uses an API key supplied by the site owner. Supported providers are OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and Mistral. Keys are encrypted at rest using the WordPress authentication salt. See Privacy below for exactly when data is sent and for provider terms and privacy policies. Want more? AcceGuru Pro Need faster scanning and additional review workflows? AcceGuru Pro extends the free plugin with:

• Fast and Faster parallel site scans; several pages at once
• Archive and taxonomy scanning - the category, tag, author and date list pages the free scan leaves out
• Five advanced auto-fixers for headings, form labels, landmarks, empty controls and duplicate IDs
• Dismiss and reopen workflow with reasons, comments, an audit log and role controls
• Issues-over-time history and scheduled email reports
• CSV and JSON export
• Automatic content checks after saving in the Block Editor

The free plugin remains fully functional without Pro. Pro is a separate add-on and requires AcceGuru Free. Compare plans and get AcceGuru Pro

1.1.0

• The front-end scan panel is rebuilt: findings are grouped by severity and then by subject.
• The Block Editor sidebar now shows the same grouping, counters and actions as the front-end panel.
• Every check now belongs to one of nine subject categories, so a page reads as a short list of topics.
• Manual checks are saved with the scan, so the editor sidebar can open the list without scanning again.
• The Rescan button in the editor sidebar now runs a fresh check of the published page.
• The panel and the sidebar use bundled Archivo fonts, without a request to any outside server.
• The panel now tells a screen reader when a scan starts and what it found.
• Secondary text and code blocks are darkened to meet the WCAG contrast minimum.

1.0.7

• Focus outlines now appear for keyboard navigation without adding a ring after mouse clicks.
• Focus outlines now use a two-colour indicator that remains visible on light and dark backgrounds.
• Skip-link and focus-outline styles now load independently so each fixer can be disabled separately.
• Accessibility statements now list five WCAG 2.2 requirements that require manual confirmation.

1.0.6

• Manual checks: the front-end panel now lists the places the scanner cannot judge on its own and outlines them on the page.
• Manual checks: a new Manual Checks card on the dashboard counts them across the last full-site scan.
• Manual checks: they are never counted as issues, so Issues Found and the severity breakdown are unchanged.
• Manual checks: the card shows a dash rather than a number until a full scan has measured every page.

1.0.5

• Site scan: skipped pages now show specific reasons such as noindex, an inactive WPML language or an add-on filter, both on screen and in the downloaded log.
• Front-end overlay: prevent a second scan from starting while one is already running, and fill the launcher with the real scan progress until it becomes active again.
• Front-end overlay: long finding descriptions wrap correctly even when the active theme forces buttons onto one line.
• AI Alt Text: cache the featured-image lookup and invalidate it immediately whenever a featured image is assigned, replaced or removed, avoiding repeated database work without stale answers.

1.0.4

• Tested with WordPress 7.1.
• Block Editor: clicking a finding scrolls to the element again, and a finding that belongs to the theme now says so instead of doing nothing.
• AI Alt Text: AVIF images are counted, offered in Bulk Alt Text and sent as a temporary copy, so the file in the Media Library is never changed.
• AI Alt Text: an image is sent as WordPress's ready-made "large" copy instead of the full-size original whenever that copy exists, so fewer bytes leave your server; images without a "large" copy are still sent in full size.
• AI Alt Text: automatic generation on upload waits for the resized copies and runs for new uploads only, so regenerating thumbnails never sends the Media Library to a paid service.
• Most Common Issues and ignored rules: rule names now link to a page that exists for AcceGuru's own checks instead of a "no matching rule" page.
• Settings: item counts next to content types are back, with a line explaining that they are site totals and a scan usually covers fewer.
• Dashboard: the "Issues over time" block no longer closes when a chart line is switched on or off.
• A11y column: the routine recalculation after an update is now silent; a message appears only when it actually stops.
• "Upgrade to Pro" card and menu entry are back on the settings screen, and stay hidden when the add-on is active.

1.0.3

• Site scan: addresses that redirect elsewhere are recognised straight away, reported as "Redirected addresses" and never counted as failures or offered for retry.
• Site scan: redirected addresses no longer wait out the per-page deadline, so scans on sites with redirects finish in the usual time.
• Site scan: the downloaded log gains an "Ignored redirects" section listing the requested address and, where the browser allows it, the final one.
• Site scan: a result can no longer be stored under the wrong page when a redirect happens while the page is being checked.
• Site scan: list pages such as the WooCommerce Shop page and the assigned Posts page are checked properly instead of running into the deadline.
• Site scan: an address that answers with a not-found page is reported as a scan error and its result is not stored.
• Site scan: the selected post statuses are remembered instead of resetting to Published every time.
• Settings: removed the item counts next to content types, which could not match what a scan actually walks.
• A11y column: sorting now follows the displayed issue counts after ignored-rule and add-on filters, while stale and unscanned pages remain at the end.

1.0.2

• Fix saving scan results on multilingual sites and keep Media Library alt-text totals stable across languages and third-party plugins.
• Preserve the tracked accessibility-statement page when settings are saved and avoid creating duplicate statement pages.
• Make A11y column counts match visible issues, including ignored rules and issues hidden by add-ons.
• Explain likely decorative images before and after alt-text generation.
• Improve scan progress, retry totals and downloaded log labels.
• Protect plugin screens and the front-end issue list from conflicting plugin and theme behaviour.

1.0.1

• Update the bundled axe-core accessibility engine from 4.10.2 to 4.12.1.
• Apply WCAG level and recommended-check settings consistently to axe-core and AcceGuru checks.
• Correct rule classifications, remove duplicate findings and calculate Passed Checks from axe-core results only.
• Mark incompatible saved results for a new scan and prevent pause/resume or retry from mixing scan profiles.
• Preserve a readable static accessibility statement, or trash the tracked statement page when uninstall data removal is enabled.
• Add OpenAI and Anthropic alt-text providers alongside Gemini and Mistral.
• Add failed-page retry, bounded scan logs, iframe message validation, navigation warnings and content-type coverage information.
• Make the live overlay keyboard accessible and clean up highlights and event listeners after every scan.
• Improve the dashboard, settings, Block Editor links and alt-text handling. Earlier release history is available in changelog.txt.