Catch accessibility problems on every site.
Each site gets an Accessibility tab with a score out of 100, issues ranked by impact, and a history of past scans. WordPress sites also get six one-click fixes.
WordPress and static sites. The one-click fixes are for WordPress and need KontrolWP Connect 0.14.0.
A first pass, run every day.
KontrolWP reads each page's HTML and reports what the markup alone can show.
- A score out of 100, with its history, so you can see whether a site is improving
- Issues ranked by impact, with the pages, the elements and the WCAG criterion
- A scan every day, or whenever you press Scan now
- On WordPress: Fix now, Fix all or Turn off for six fixes
The details
How it works, point by point.
What it checks
- Missing alt text, form field labels, link and button names, and frame titles
- Page title and language, heading structure, a main landmark and a skip link
- A viewport that blocks zooming, positive tabindex, timed refreshes, autoplay and vague link text
- It scans the home page and a few same-site pages it links to
What it cannot check
- Color contrast, because that depends on styles and layout
- Keyboard use, and anything that depends on scripts
- Whether alt text is actually good. It can only tell whether alt text is missing
- The tab says so, because this is a useful first pass and not a full WCAG review
The score and history
- The score is 100 minus a penalty for each kind of problem, weighted by its impact and how often it occurs
- Each issue lists the WCAG 2.1 criterion it relates to
- The score of your last 90 scans is kept, so you can see the trend
- Scan now runs a scan immediately, at most once every 30 seconds
The six fixes (WordPress)
- Add empty alt text to images that have none, name form fields from their placeholders, and give icon-only links (social, email, phone) a name
- Add titles to iframes, allow zooming in the viewport tag, and add a skip link to the main content
- Switch each with Fix now or Turn off, or press Fix all
- Fixes rewrite the finished HTML of pages visitors see. They never touch your content, database or theme, so turning one off restores the page
- They apply only to public pages, not to the admin, feeds or REST requests, and a page is sent unchanged if anything goes wrong
Good to know
- A page cache may keep serving old HTML, so a scan can still show a problem after its fix is on. The tab says so.
- Scans are spread out so a small host is never loaded: pages are read one at a time with a pause, and scans stop at the first server error.
- Turn accessibility checks off for one site in its settings, and scheduled scans skip it.
Related
More from KontrolWP.
Security
Known vulnerabilities in core and plugins, rated by CVSS, plus a Settings list with one-click hardening fixes.
Broken links
Scan published content for broken and unresponsive links, then remove them or jump to the editor. Scans run on a schedule.
Static sites
Add a website on Cloudflare Workers by its address. Uptime on every sync, pages from the sitemap and deployment history.
Take control of every WordPress site you run.
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