DSGN Accessibility Audit and Statement
A WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility audit, a panel of real preferences for visitors, and an Accessibility Statement. Crafted, accessible, no bloat.
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DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 10+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 3 months ago, and scores 64/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (10+ active installs)
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Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| a11y | #23 |
| accessibility | #81 |
| EAA | #23 |
| wcag | >100 |
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Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 1 reviews
About DSGN Accessibility Audit and Statement
From the official readme · v0.7.7Description
DSGN Accessibility Audit and Statement is an honest accessibility tool by DSGN. It does three things, well:
- Audits your site with a server-side analyzer and shows, in a clean dashboard, which WCAG 2.1 AA criteria are not met.
- Gives visitors a panel with preferences the site genuinely honours: text size and spacing, link highlighting, high contrast, negative colours, pausing motion, reducing animations, disabling autoplay audio and video, read-aloud (browser speech), a visible keyboard focus and a bigger cursor.
- Generates the Accessibility Statement and provides a feedback mechanism to report barriers — both required under the European Accessibility Act.
Available in English and Italian (full translation included).
What this plugin does NOT do (by design)
It is not an overlay. It does not alter your site to pretend it is accessible, and it never declares a conformance you do not have. Accessibility is achieved by building the site correctly: the tool helps you see what to fix and document the status, not hide it.
Automated analysis only covers part of the WCAG criteria. The rest — focus order, keyboard navigation, alternative-text quality, reading order — require human review. The plugin says so clearly instead of masking it.
The controls and the WCAG criteria they map to
- Text size — 1.4.4 Resize Text
- Text spacing — 1.4.12 Text Spacing
- Highlight links — 1.4.1 Use of Color
- Pause motion — 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide
- Reduce animations — prefers-reduced-motion
- Disable autoplay audio/video — 1.4.2 Audio Control
Scanning: server-side, runs anywhere
The default static engine runs on the server: it fetches your pages and analyses the markup (alt text, form labels, link and button names, page language, document title, blocked zoom, empty headings, duplicate ids, untitled frames). No browser, no JavaScript execution — it works on any host, on demand or on a weekly schedule.
Colour contrast (1.4.3) and JavaScript-rendered content cannot be evaluated from markup alone. The browser engine covers them: it runs axe-core in your own browser, on demand, when you press Run scan. Your browser is the rendering engine, so colour contrast and the post-JavaScript DOM are included. Nothing leaves your site.
axe-core (MPL-2.0) is bundled and loaded only in the admin, only when the browser engine is selected.
The on-site visitor panel is branded Threshold by DSGN — https://dsgngroup.it
Installation
- Upload the
thresholdfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install the plugin from the WordPress Plugins screen. - Activate it. The public “Accessibility Statement” page is created automatically.
- Go to Accessibility → Settings to enter your organisation details and choose the panel controls.
- Go to Accessibility → Dashboard and press Run scan.
Frequently asked questions
Does this plugin make my site EAA-compliant?
No, and beware of anyone who promises that. No automated tool makes a site compliant: conformance depends on how the site is built. It shows you what to fix, lets you expose real preferences, and generates the required documentation.
Does the panel modify my site?
Only when a visitor asks it to, and only with standard preferences the site genuinely honours (e.g. enlarging text or pausing a carousel). No cosmetic “filter” is applied.
Does scanning send data to external servers?
No. The static engine runs on your own server and the browser engine runs in your own browser. The plugin makes no external connections of its own — no third-party fonts, no analytics, no phone-home.
Is the bundled axe-core library minified?
Yes. The plugin bundles axe-core (by Deque Systems) for the optional in-browser scan. It is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0; the licence is included in assets/js/vendor/, and the unminified source is available at https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core .
Changelog
Fixes the oversized footer logo introduced in 0.7.6 and restores bundled translations (Italian). Recommended for all users.
0.7.7
- Fixed: the DSGN mark in the panel footer rendered at full size on some sites. The 0.7.6 isolation reset overrode the image’s HTML width/height attributes; icon sizes are now set explicitly in CSS.
- Fixed: bundled translations (including Italian) were never loaded, so the panel stayed in English on non-English sites. The plugin now registers its /languages directory on init. Translations from translate.wordpress.org still take precedence when available.
0.7.6
- Style isolation: the front-end panel is now hardened against theme “bleed”. An ID-scoped reset plus higher-specificity rules prevent host themes (e.g. those styling all buttons/links globally) from overriding the panel’s typography, controls and spacing. No change to the accessibility effects applied to the site.
0.7.5
- Listed on WordPress.org as “DSGN Accessibility Audit and Statement”; the on-site panel keeps the “Threshold by DSGN” name.
- Text domain aligned to the plugin slug.
- Removed the manual load_plugin_textdomain() call (WordPress.org loads translations automatically).
- Code-standards cleanups for the plugin directory review.
0.7.3
- Panel footer back to dark with the white logo and a bit more padding.
- Removed the divider under “Report a barrier”.
- Custom black document icon for the Accessibility Statement link.
0.7.2
- Panel footer now uses the real DSGN logo (PNG), is lighter and links to dsgngroup.it.
- Admin credit links to dsgngroup.it.
- New setting to hide the DSGN credit from the panel footer (on by default; admin always keeps it).
0.7.1
- Fixed the brand mark not showing in the panel footer (now white on the dark footer).
- Removed the mark from the Accessibility Statement title (it was misaligned).
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Is DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… free?
Yes. DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… safe to use in 2026?
DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 10+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 3 months ago, and scores 64/100 on our health check.
How many websites use DSGN Accessibility Audit and St…?
DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… is active on 10+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 297 times since it launched in July 2026. It was downloaded 81 times in the last 30 days.
Does DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… work with WordPress 7.1?
DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… is officially tested up to WordPress 7.0.6, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
What PHP version does DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… need?
DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… last updated?
The latest version, 0.7.7, was released on July 16, 2026 (3 months ago).
Who makes DSGN Accessibility Audit and St…?
DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… is developed and maintained by dsgncc.
What are the best alternatives to DSGN Accessibility Audit and St…?
The most popular alternatives to DSGN Accessibility Audit and St… are Web Accessibility (formally… (500K+ installs), WP Accessibility (60K+ installs) and AccessibleWP (20K+ installs).
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