Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance vs OpenStation

Make Your Website Accessible with Accessibility Checker Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker helps you find and fix accessibility issues in WordPress. Scan posts and pages as you edit, review WCAG-based issues inside WordPress, apply automated fixes for common barriers, and generate an accessibility statement to support your compliance efforts. Whether you’re improving compliance with accessibility laws, working toward Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) conformance, or making your website easier for everyone to use, Accessibility Checker gives your team a practical workflow for ongoing accessibility testing and remediation. Plugin Website | Live Demo | Documentation | Compare Free to Pro | Get Pro | WP Accessibility Meetup | WP Accessibility Facebook Group Why Make Your Website Accessible Laws around the world, such as the European Accessibility Act (EAA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Section 508, among others, require websites to be accessible and usable by people with disabilities. Accessibility may be required for your website to be legally compliant. Accessibility fixes on websites often translate to better overall usability on the site and can improve search engine ranking and conversions. Including Accessibility Checker on your website and fixing identified problems can help you to: Reduce legal risk. Improve SEO and increase reach. Increase sales and conversions. Reduce operational costs by allowing more people to self-serve on your website. Live your organizational values. Real-Time WordPress Accessibility Scanning Accessibility Checker scans your content each time you save or publish and shows accessibility problems directly in the WordPress editor. You can review issues without leaving the edit screen, or switch to a front-end view to see exactly which elements need attention. Accessibility Checker runs over 40 automated checks based on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 and provides documentation for every issue so content creators, site owners, and developers can fix problems faster. Automated Accessibility Fixes Need help resolving accessibility issues on your website? Accessibility Checker includes one-click fixes for common accessibility barriers in themes and plugins. Add skip links Add focus outlines Block links from opening new windows Force links to be underlined Label comment fields Label search fields Add missing lang & dir attributes Make the viewport scalable Remove positive tab index to fix incorrect focus order Remove title attributes from elements with preferred accessible names Add warnings to links that open in new tabs Show error message for empty search submissions Add file size & type to links [Pro] Add missing page titles [Pro] Block PDF uploads [Pro] Label form fields [Pro] Supports Accessibility Compliance Efforts Laws and policies around the world require websites to be accessible. Accessibility Checker helps teams identify issues early, document progress, and support conformance work related to ADA, Section 508, AODA, EAA, WCAG, and more. Find problems faster. Learn accessibility as you go. Apply automated fixes for common barriers. Track changes over time. [Pro] Get personalized support and custom plans for more complex remediation needs. [Pro] Accessibility Checker scans run on your server. This means there are no URL-based scanning limits or API-usage fees. Get unlimited scanning of posts and pages without worrying about costs each time you scan. Why Accessibility Checker Accessibility Checker is designed to support both day-to-day publishing and broader accessibility initiatives. No limits on pages scanned. Scan as many posts and pages as your site contains. Built by accessibility professionals. Equalize Digital team members include certified accessibility professionals and experienced WordPress accessibility practitioners. WCAG 2.2 A, AA, and AAA guidance. Review issues against current WCAG success criteria. Readability analysis and simplified summary support. Check Flesch-Kincaid grade level and add a simplified summary for WCAG Success Criterion 3.1.5 Reading Level. Remove issues from reports. Dismiss items that have been manually reviewed and found not relevant or remediated, with notes, usernames, and timestamps. Accessibility statement generator. Draft an accessibility statement that you can customize and publish on your website. Footer accessibility statement. Insert an accessibility statement into your footer with one click. Detailed documentation. Use help articles and instructions for every issue to guide remediation. [Pro] Bulk scanning. Scan all posts and pages in bulk for a site-wide overview. [Pro] Scan additional post types. Extend in-editor accessibility checks to more content types. [Pro] Admin columns. View accessibility status at a glance in content lists. [Pro] Full-site reports. See existing issues in one place for faster remediation. [Pro] Dismissed Log. Review dismissed issues, who dismissed them, and when. [Pro] User restrictions on Dismiss. Limit which roles can dismiss issues. Additional paid add-ons include: Audit History add-on: track and report on changes over time. CSV Export add-on: export issues to CSV for management in a spreadsheet or project management tool. Multisite add-on: see accessibility status and manage settings for all sites in your network. How It Works To get started with Accessibility Checker or learn more about how it works, see our Getting Started Quick Guide or watch this video demonstration. Please note that the video includes some features available only in the paid version. Support The Equalize Digital team provides regular support for Accessibility Checker on the WordPress.org forums. If you have a question about the plugin or its use, please post in the support forum and the team will do its best to respond quickly. Support hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM U.S. Central. If you need one-on-one email support, please consider purchasing Accessibility Checker Pro. Pro customers receive unlimited personal support on plugin usage and features. Join our WordPress Accessibility Facebook Group for community support and to connect with other developers, designers, and content creators working to make websites more accessible. For paid Accessibility Checker customers on a small business plan or above, we provide two accessibility office hours calls each month to answer remediation questions. Compatibility Accessibility Checker supports multiple WordPress editing and site-building workflows and has been tested with: Gutenberg Block Editor The Classic Editor Advanced Custom Fields Avada Beaver Builder Divi Elementor Oxygen WP Bakery [Pro] WooCommerce Learn Accessibility Want to learn more about accessibility and stay on-top of accessibility best practices? Attend an official WordPress Accessibility Meetup! These free virtual meetups are held twice per month via Zoom and are live captioned. Learn more about WP Accessibility Meetup About Us Equalize Digital is a mission-driven organization striving to create a world where all people have equal access to products and tools on web, regardless of ability. Our team has been building custom WordPress websites, themes, and plugins since 2010. We’re the trusted accessibility auditing team for WordPress plugin developers and organizations worldwide, including government, higher education, nonprofit, and enterprise businesses.

wp-admin forgets. OpenStation doesn’t. You know the moment. You’re deep in a post and you need one image from the Media Library. You click over, find it, click back, and everything you had going is gone. Your scroll position, your half-typed thought, the three other things you had queued up in your head. That’s not a bug you hit. That’s the design. wp-admin shows you one screen at a time, and every navigation throws the last one away. It has worked this way since 2003, like a fridge that empties itself every time you close the door. WordPress has rebuilt almost everything else. The editor, the site editor, the patterns, the styles. The admin’s one-screen-at-a-time model is the layer nobody touched. OpenStation touches it. Install it and admin screens become draggable, resizable windows. Edit a post while the Media Library sits open next to it. Drag an image from one window straight into the other. Keep comments open in the corner. Reload the browser and your window layout — open pages, positions, sizes, and window states — comes back where you left it. OpenStation itself is free, GPL, and opt-in per user. One click in the admin bar turns it on for you. One click turns it off. Nobody else on your site sees anything change, and deactivating the plugin restores the classic admin exactly. No Core patches and no lock-in. Optional AI providers may charge for their service. Built and maintained by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, and Tumblr. Work on more than one thing at once Admin pages open as windows, including pages added by most other plugins. Drag them, resize them, snap them, tile them, minimize them to a taskbar. The admin menu becomes a dock of icons. Two editors open at once is one click away. Never lose your place Moving between open windows leaves each page in place. Across reloads, OpenStation remembers your open pages, window positions, sizes and states, virtual desktops, and focus. Closing a window with unsaved changes warns you first. A desk you can actually put things on Drop posts, media, and links right onto the wallpaper. Sort them into folders. Trash them to a Trash that actually holds things. The stuff you’re working on this week can just sit out where you can see it. One desktop per job Virtual desktops, the way your operating system does them. One for writing. One for the store. One for comment triage. One for that redesign you keep poking at. Switch between them without closing anything. Find anything with Cmd+K The full WordPress command palette, plus slash commands from your plugins, all under one keystroke. Turn on the optional AI assistant and you can ask it things like “which post had the comment asking for the recipe?” and it searches your own content to answer. (Requires an AI provider configured in Settings → Connectors on WordPress 7.0+. Details under “External services” below.) See how your site fits together The Corkboard is an interactive, zoomable map of how your posts, pages, and products link to each other. Pan around it. Find the orphans. Find the hubs. Running a store? Orders, Products, Coupons, and Customers become browsable folders with stock and sale ribbons. Open a customer to see their lifetime spend and what they buy most. Follow a product to its buyers, or a coupon to who redeemed it. Make it yours Wallpapers, from color presets to animated scenes to your own photo. Live widgets pinned to the desktop: drafts, stats, recent comments, a focus timer. Uploadable desktop themes, including a built-in Legacy theme that brings the old WordPress blue back in one click. And Mio, a soft-body desk companion that drifts across your wallpaper and gets bumped around by your windows. Off by default. You’ll turn it on. For developers Extend OpenStation through documented PHP and JavaScript APIs. Register windows, icons, wallpapers, widgets, commands, and settings tabs through stable openstation_register_* PHP APIs and a typed JavaScript API; customize dock items through documented hooks; add AI tools with the WordPress Abilities API. Copy-paste examples live in the developer docs on GitHub. External services No external service is required for OpenStation’s desktop interface. The optional AI Assistant and two user-initiated enrichment features make the external requests described below. AI Assistant The optional AI Assistant sends data to the AI provider you configure in WordPress’s Settings → Connectors (for example OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). Generation is routed through WordPress 7.0’s built-in AI Client, which supplies the credentials stored in Connectors. The plugin never handles an API key itself. With no provider configured in Connectors, no external AI requests are made. When the AI Assistant is enabled and a user invokes it (via Cmd+K or the slash-command palette): What is sent: the user’s prompt, the conversation history for the active session, and tool-call metadata. The plugin’s built-in tools (search_posts, search_pages, search_comments) run WordPress’s native keyword search and may include excerpts of the matching posts/pages/comments in tool results, which are then sent back to the provider as part of the agentic loop. When it is sent: on user-initiated AI requests, and (if an administrator enables “Score new comments with AI”) on comment-save hooks for spam analysis. Posts, pages, and taxonomy terms are not sent automatically. Why it is sent: to obtain model completions and tool-call decisions that drive the AI Assistant. Who provides the service: whichever provider you configured in Settings → Connectors. Which provider (and endpoint) receives the data depends entirely on that configuration. Review the chosen provider’s own terms and privacy policy (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google). URL shortcut favicons When an authorized user creates a desktop shortcut to an external URL, OpenStation asks that URL for its page HTML and favicon so the shortcut can display the site’s icon. The request is made from your WordPress server and sends the requested URL, the server’s IP address, an OpenStation user-agent string, and normal HTTP request metadata to the operator of that site. This happens only when a user creates the shortcut. The destination site’s terms and privacy policy apply. WordPress.org plugin information When an authorized user opens or refreshes parts of OpenStation’s Plugins window, OpenStation may request public plugin details, update metadata, and review excerpts from WordPress.org. These requests send plugin slugs, the site’s locale, and normal HTTP request metadata to WordPress.org. This information is used only to display and manage plugins. Review the WordPress.org Privacy Policy. OpenStation’s OAuth relay does not contact a service by itself. Third-party plugins that configure the relay may contact their own providers and are responsible for disclosing those services. Credits OpenStation is brought to you by Automattic. The plugin is open source under GPLv2-or-later; contributions are welcome on GitHub. Third-party libraries The plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript library, loaded on demand only when a feature that needs it is in use: PixiJS (MIT License) — used by the Corkboard window, built-in canvas wallpapers (e.g. the animated WordPress logo), the Mio desk companion, and the Inkfall typing game. PixiJS is loaded from the plugin’s own assets/vendor/ directory; no CDN requests are made. Data files The Inkfall game’s word list (assets/games/inkfall/words.txt) is generated from the following sources (attribution also ships in the file’s header): FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (CC-BY-SA 4.0) — English word-frequency ranking derived from the OpenSubtitles corpus. english-words by dwyl (Unlicense) — used as a validity filter. LDNOOBW English list (CC-BY 4.0) — used as an exclusion filter.