AuditRush Accessibility Checker and Alt Text Audit

Most accessibility checkers for WordPress look at what you wrote, inside the editor. This one reads the page the way your server actually sends it to a visitor, so it sees your theme, your navigation, your footer, your widgets and whatever your page builder put there. That matters because an author can have a perfectly clean post sitting on a failing page and never find out. It checks eighteen things that can be decided with certainty, among them:

• images a screen reader cannot describe, and alt text that is only a file name
• form controls with no label
• buttons and links that announce nothing
• pages with no title, or no language, or a language that is not a real code
• a viewport setting that stops a phone zooming in
• empty headings, and headings that skip a level in the outline
• embedded frames with no name
• identifiers used more than once, and labels pointing at something that is not there
• elements that jump the keyboard order
• lists whose item count is announced wrongly, and tables of data with no header cells

It also lists the images in your media library that have no alt text, which is usually the largest and cheapest thing to fix on any site. What it does not do, and why that is written here These checks cover roughly a third of WCAG 2.1 A and AA. That is not a limitation of this plugin, it is the limit of what any automated tool can decide. Nothing here can tell you whether your alt text says anything useful, whether somebody can complete your checkout using only a keyboard, whether focus order makes sense, or whether your colours have enough contrast, which cannot be worked out from markup at all. So this plugin will never tell you that your site is accessible or compliant, because it cannot know that and neither can anything else that runs automatically. What it can tell you is a list of specific things that are wrong, each one with the element it is about. Nothing leaves your site Version 1.0 makes no external requests of any kind. Every check runs on your own server, against your own pages, over your own loopback connection. There is no account, no key, no signup, and no data sent anywhere. If your host blocks a site from requesting itself, the plugin says so plainly rather than failing quietly. Who makes this AuditRush sells accessibility audits, and this plugin exists because the automated layer of that work is useful on its own and costs us nothing to give away. There is one link to our site, at the bottom of one screen you chose to open. That is the whole of the sales pitch.

1.0.2

• Renamed to AuditRush Accessibility Checker and Alt Text Audit. Nothing it does has changed.

1.0.1

• Fix: the Check now and Ignore this buttons answered "Could not check that page" on every site, because their routes were only registered inside the admin and a REST request is not an admin request. Checks queued on save were not affected.
• A single request for a rating on the Accessibility screen, shown only after a check has worked and gone for good on the first click.

1.0.0

• First release. Eighteen deterministic checks against your rendered pages, a media library alt text audit, a per-post panel, and a sortable column on the posts and pages lists.