Accessibility Audit – WCAG & BFSG Checker
Honest WCAG 2.2 / BFSG audit: scans your rendered HTML, reports prioritized issues with fix guidance, and generates an accessibility statement.
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Accessibility Audit works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. Was last updated 3 months ago, and scores 55/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (<10 active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
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Daily downloads
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Rankings
Where Accessibility Audit stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| accessibility | >100 |
| Accessibility statement | #74 |
| barrierefreiheit | #13 |
| bfsg | #6 |
| wcag | >100 |
About Accessibility Audit
From the official readme · v0.4.4Description
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.
Installation
- Upload the
kipphard-accessibility-auditfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install it from the Plugins screen in your WordPress admin. - Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
- Go to Accessibility → Dashboard and click “Run scan”.
- Under Accessibility → Statement, fill in your contact details and conformance status to generate the accessibility statement.
Frequently asked questions
Does this plugin make my site accessible automatically?
No. This is an audit tool, not an overlay. It shows you where accessibility problems are and gives concrete fix guidance, but the actual work — adding alt text to images, labelling forms correctly, building a sensible heading hierarchy — has to be done by you or your development team. No automated tool can guarantee or create full WCAG conformance; anyone claiming otherwise is misleading you.
Which WCAG version is checked?
The plugin targets WCAG 2.2 level AA, as required by the BFSG. The currently implemented rules cover the most common and most reliably auto-detectable issues.
How many pages are scanned?
All of them: the scan covers your homepage plus every published page and post. Very large sites are capped at 200 URLs per run — a performance safeguard, not a feature limit.
Is any data sent to external servers?
No. All scans run locally on your own server. No data is sent to any third party.
The scan returns no results or fails. What can I do?
Make sure your site is reachable from itself (no password protection, no “Coming soon” mode). The plugin fetches your own URLs internally over HTTP. Also check that the PHP dom and libxml extensions are available.
What is the accessibility statement (Barrierefreiheitserklärung)?
The BFSG requires certain providers to publish a public accessibility statement from 28 June 2025. The plugin generates a template of this statement that you should adapt to your situation and have reviewed by a lawyer.
Changelog
Style fix for Statement/Settings pages; corrected outdated settings text.
0.4.4
- Changed: clearer plugin title in the WordPress.org directory (Accessibility Audit – WCAG & BFSG Checker). No functional changes.
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.
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FAQ
Accessibility Audit: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 5, 2026
Is Accessibility Audit free?
Yes. Accessibility Audit is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Accessibility Audit safe to use in 2026?
Accessibility Audit works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. Was last updated 3 months ago, and scores 55/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Accessibility Audit?
Accessibility Audit is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 295 times since it launched in July 2026. It was downloaded 62 times in the last 30 days.
Does Accessibility Audit work with WordPress 7.1?
Accessibility Audit 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 Accessibility Audit need?
Accessibility Audit requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Accessibility Audit last updated?
The latest version, 0.4.4, was released on July 18, 2026 (3 months ago).
Who makes Accessibility Audit?
Accessibility Audit is developed and maintained by kipphard.
What are the best alternatives to Accessibility Audit?
The most popular alternatives to Accessibility Audit are Web Accessibility (formally… (500K+ installs), Auto Image Attributes From… (100K+ installs) and Accessibility by UserWay (80K+ installs).
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