Kipphard Accessibility Audit

Kipphard Accessibility Audit is an honest audit tool for WordPress sites. It analyses the HTML your site actually renders and reports accessibility issues against WCAG 2.2 and the German Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG) — with clear fix guidance, severity prioritisation, and an accessibility score from 0 to 100. What this plugin does:

• Scans your whole site: the homepage plus all published pages and posts (capped at 200 URLs per run purely as a performance safeguard)
• 12 automated WCAG 2.2 checks (missing alt text, missing page language, form fields without labels, empty links and buttons, heading hierarchy, skip links, landmarks, duplicate IDs and more)
• Every issue shows: severity (Critical / Serious / Moderate / Minor), the WCAG criterion, a description, a concrete fix hint, and a context snippet from your HTML
• Generates a ready-to-edit accessibility statement (BFSG template) as a WordPress page via the [kipphard_accessibility_audit_statement] shortcode
• No tracking, no external requests, no dependencies — everything runs locally on your own server

Try it live: open a demo in WordPress Playground — a full WordPress with the plugin installed and a sample audit already populated, right in your browser. What this plugin does NOT do: This plugin is not an overlay and does not claim instant or full compliance. Automated testing can only cover part of the WCAG criteria. Requirements such as colour contrast (1.4.3), full keyboard operability, cognitive accessibility, and most WCAG level AAA criteria require manual review by experts or by users of assistive technology. Overlay widgets that promise "one-click accessibility" are not a valid solution and are rejected by the accessibility community. This plugin is the opposite: transparent reporting and honest communication. About the BFSG: From 28 June 2025, Germany's Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG) requires many providers of digital products and services to publish a public accessibility statement and meet WCAG-based requirements. This plugin helps you find issues and produce that statement. Kipphard Accessibility Audit Pro (separate plugin, learn more) adds automation on top: scheduled automatic scans, a PDF conformance report, score history monitoring, and multisite support. Everything in this free version — including full-site scanning — stays fully functional without it. Hinweis (DE): Dieses Plugin ist ein ehrliches Audit-Werkzeug für WordPress-Seiten. Es prüft dein gerendertes HTML auf WCAG-2.2- und BFSG-Probleme, zeigt priorisierte Fehler mit Lösungshinweisen und erzeugt eine Barrierefreiheitserklärung (BFSG-Vorlage). Die Benutzeroberfläche ist auf Deutsch verfügbar.

0.4.3

• Fixed: the bundled German translation now loads. WordPress only auto-loads translations shipped as language packs, so the de_DE catalog included with the plugin was never used; it is now loaded explicitly.

0.4.2

• Fixed: admin styles now load on the Statement and Settings pages (not only the dashboard). Corrected outdated settings-page text that still described a page-count limit; the scan covers all published pages and posts.

0.4.1

• Full-site scanning is available to everyone (no page-count limit); Pro adds automatic scheduling, not broader scope. Renamed all internal option/shortcode/hook names to a unique plugin-specific prefix.

0.4.0

• Renamed to Kipphard Accessibility Audit. The free version is now fully functional with no license-gated features; premium features (scheduled scans, PDF export, score history, multisite) are available as a separate plugin. Removed the Custom CSS field; all design options are now free.

0.3.4

• Code-quality pass for WordPress Plugin Check: slug-prefixed global constants, filter and variables; removed the redundant text-domain loader; annotated read-only display reads. No functional changes.

0.3.3

• WordPress.org Plugin Check compliance: single slug-matching text domain, fixed translators comment placement, removed debug logging, tidier readme. No functional changes.

0.3.2

• English plugin title and WordPress.org-ready readme. No functional changes.

0.3.1

• Shared Kipphard design system (kip-ui) for a consistent, theme-safe look; German (de_DE) translation of the appearance settings.

0.3.0

• Accessibility statement rendered in the shared design system; admin polish.

0.2.0

• English source baseline with a German (de_DE) translation.

0.1.0

• Initial release.
• 12 automated WCAG 2.2 / BFSG checks.
• Prioritized dashboard with score, severity badges, and fix guidance.
• [kipphard_accessibility_audit_statement] shortcode for the accessibility statement.
• Statement field management (contact, conformance status, address, enforcement body).
• SSRF protection: only URLs on your own host are scanned.
• No external dependencies, no tracking.