Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker - Audit Your Website for WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 Accessibility Errors

Plugin Website | Documentation | Compare Free to Pro | Get Pro | WP Accessibility Meetup | WP Accessibility Facebook Group Make Your Website Accessible with Accessibility Checker Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker helps you find and fix accessibility problems as you create content — no need to leave the WordPress editor. The plugin scans your posts and pages each time you save or publish, then shows errors and warnings directly in the edit screen so you can fix issues in real time. Accessibility Checker runs over 40 automated checks based on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 and highlights exactly which elements fail WCAG. If you aren't sure what a code snippet means, flip to the front-end view to see the element highlighted on your website. Accessibility Checker also includes 10 automated fixes to resolve common accessibility barriers for you. Helpful documentation is available for every issue, and accessibility consulting is available if you need expert help. Automated Accessibility Fixes Have accessibility issues on your website that you can't fix? Accessibility Checker can fix common issues in themes and plugins. One-click fixes include:

• Add skip links
• Add focus outlines
• Block links opening new windows
• Force links to be underlined
• Label comment fields
• Label search fields
• Add lang & dir attributes
• Make the viewport scalable
• Remove positive tab index to fix incorrect focus order
• Remove title attributes from elements with preferred accessible names
• Add warnings to links that open in new tabs
• Add file size & type to links [Pro]
• Add missing page titles [Pro]
• Block PDF uploads [Pro]
• Label form fields [Pro]

Ensure Ongoing ADA, Section 508, AODA, European Accessibility Act & WCAG Compliance Laws around the world require websites to be accessible. Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker is the best automated tool to run to support your accessibility strategy.

• Find problems fast.
• Learn accessibility as you go.
• Easy automated fixes.
• Personalized support and custom plans for more complex remediation needs. [Pro]

Start making your website comply with accessibility laws and requirements today. Making your website accessible reduces legal risk, improves SEO, and can increase conversions. A Vital Part of Your WordPress Accessibility Strategy Accessibility Checker is the best automated tool to run along with your manual accessibility tests. It's perfect for small business websites, large enterprise organizations, and everything in between. Whether you're running a small brochure website, an eCommerce store with thousands of products, or a multi-site network for a university, Accessibility Checker is the right tool for your website.

• No limits on pages scanned. Have hundreds of blog posts or pages on your website? No problem!
• Coded and tested by accessibility experts. Equalize Digital team members are certified accessibility professionals by the International Association of Accessibility Professionals and experts at building accessible WordPress websites.
• WCAG 2.2 A, AA, & AAA guidance. Flags errors and warnings for accessibility problems according to WCAG 2.2.
• Readability analysis & auto insertion of simplified summary. Includes a Flesch Kincaid grade level analysis and a place to enter a simplified summary to meet WCAG Success Criterion 3.1.5 Reading Level.
• Ignore feature. Easily close errors or warnings that have been assessed manually and determined to be not relevant. Optionally, document a reason/notes with each ignore. Logs the username and date/time when errors/warnings are ignored.
• Accessibility statement. Draft accessibility statement that you can modify for your organization and publish on your website to share your accessibility efforts with the public.
• Footer accessibility statement. One-click to insert an accessibility statement in your footer.
• Detailed documentation. Thorough help articles and instructions for fixing problems - the perfect resource for learning more about accessibility.
• [Pro] Bulk scanning. Scan all posts and pages in bulk rather than one-by-one for an overview of your entire site's accessibility.
• [Pro] Scan additional post types. Add the Accessibility Checker in-post accessibility audit to any post type present on your website.
• [Pro] Admin columns. Quickly seeing the accessibility status of posts and pages at a glance by adding accessibility status columns.
• [Pro] Centralized Open Issues list. See all existing issues in one place for fast-track accessibility remediation.
• [Pro] Ignore Log. See all items that have been ignored on the website, by whom, and when, in one central place. Reopen errors or warnings that have been incorrectly ignored.
• [Pro] User restrictions on Ignore. Limit which user roles can ignore errors and warnings - allows for greater admin control and management of accessibility review.

Additional paid add-ons include;

• Audit History add-on: track and report on changes over time.
• CSV Export add-on: export issues to CSV for management in a spreadsheet or project management tool.
• Multisite add-on: see accessibility status and manage settings for all sites in your network.

How It Works To get started with Accessibility Checker or learn more about how it works, please reference our Getting Started Quick Guide or watch this quick video demonstration of the software. Please note that the video demonstration does show some features that are only available in the paid version. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncAfP06dPpU] Our Support Team is Here to Help You The Equalize Digital team aims to provide 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 we will do our best to help you quickly. Our support hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM U.S. Central. Please understand that we do prioritize support for purchasers of Accessibility Checker Pro. If you need one-on-one email support, please consider purchasing Accessibility Checker Pro. Accessibility Checker Pro customers receive unlimited personal support on plugin usage and features. Join our WordPress Accessibility Facebook group for community support and to connect with other developers, designers, and content creators who are working to make their websites more accessible. This is a great place to get free WP accessibility remediation assistance from others in the community. For paid Accessibility Checker customers on a small business plan or above, we provide two accessibility office hours calls each month to address your remediation queries. This is an invaluable resource for those who need direct assistance and expert insights when making their sites more accessible. Multi-platform Accessibility Accessibility Checker supports a variety of WordPress editors and can scan and identify issues no matter how you're building your site. Accessibility Checker has been tested and confirmed compatible with:

• Gutenberg Block Editor
• The Classic Editor
• Advanced Custom Fields
• Beaver Builder
• Divi
• Elementor
• Oxygen
• [Pro] WooCommerce

Learn Accessibility 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. Learn more about WP Accessibility Meetup About Us Equalize Digital 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, including government, higher ed, and enterprise websites.

Getting started with Accessibility Checker is as easy as installing and activating the plugin, then configuring a few basic settings. Installing Accessibility Checker Within WordPress

1. Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select ‘Add New’.
2. Search for ‘Accessibility Checker’;
3. On the Accessibility Checker plugin, click or activate the 'Install' button.
4. Activate Accessibility Checker from your Plugins page.
5. Follow the ‘after activation’ steps listed below.

Installing Accessibility Checker Manually 1.Upload the unzipped ‘accessibility-checker’ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory on your website via FTP. 2. Activate Accessibility Checker from your Plugins page. 3. Follow the ‘after activation’ steps listed below. After Activation After activating the plugin, go to the Accessibility Checker settings page in your WordPress admin (found at '/wp-admin/admin.php?page=accessibility_checker_settings') to configure the plugin settings. Current settings in the free plugin include:

• Ability to control when the plugin prompts for a Simplified Summary.
• Ability to set the position of the Simplified Summary, if using, above or below content or manually with a function in a page template.
• Ability to turn off Accessibility Checker for posts or pages as desired.
• 10 automated fixes for common accessibility problems.

1.23.1

• Changed: Remove the str_get_html fallback shim.

1.23.0

• Added: Jest testing framework for accessibility rules with test case generation.
• Changed: Added fallback for str_get_html() with deprecation notice.
• Changed: Added density calculation capability in JS scanner.
• Removed: Legacy PHP scan code.
• Removed: PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser.
• Converted: video_present rule to JS.
• Converted: slider_present rule to JS.
• Converted: missing_transcript rule to JS.
• Converted: missing_subheadings rule to JS.
• Converted: link_improper rule to JS.
• Converted: link_non_html_file rule to JS.
• Converted: longdesc_invalid rule to JS.
• Converted: missing_table_header rule to JS.
• Converted: incorrect_heading_order rule to JS.
• Converted: img_alt_empty rule to JS.
• Converted: img_alt_long rule to JS.
• Converted: img_map_missing_alt rule to JS.
• Converted: link_empty rule to JS.
• Converted: linked_image_missing_alt rule to JS.
• Converted: linked_image_empty rules to JS.
• Converted: aria_hidden rule to JS.
• Converted: empty_button rule to JS.
• Converted: duplicate_form_label rule to axe-core compatible JS rule with conditional support for incomplete items.
• Converted: empty_heading_tag rule to JS.
• Converted: empty_table_header rule to JS.
• Converted: iframe_missing_title rule to JS.
• Converted: img_alt_redundant rule to JS.
• Converted: img_alt_invalid rule to JS.
• Converted: img_alt_missing rule to JS.
• Converted: animated_gif rule to JS.
• Converted: broken_aria_reference rule to JS.

1.22.2

• Enhancement: Announce Global Accessibility Awareness Day in the admin during that week.

1.22.1

• Enhancement: Make the skip-link fix handle sites with forced smooth scroll.
• Enhancement: Make the zooming and scaling handle additional ways the tag can block scaling.
• Fix: Swap to graphql for getting meetup data for display in the admin.

1.22.0

• Enhancement: Improve the new window warning migration to handle more edge cases.
• Fix: Avoid checking theme Tags when theme sandbox recovery is in play.
• Fix: When parsing block content for scanning avoid stomping on post_content of a global.

1.21.0

• Enhancement: Improve how density statistics are counted. You will see a notice about this change on the welcome page.
• Fix: Ensure that the scanned posts counts are accurate to all posts scanned, not just ones that have issues.
• Fix: Properly count posts that are scanned but have no issues to remediate. Older versions can be found in the plugins changelog.txt.