Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance
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.
GSpeech TTS – WordPress Text To Speech Plugin
WordPress Text to Speech for Accessibility with OpenAI and Gemini Voices GSpeech is a WordPress text-to-speech plugin and audio player with ultra-realistic OpenAI and Gemini AI voices on paid AI plans. It can automatically add a customizable WordPress audio player to your website, improving accessibility by letting visitors listen to natural-sounding text-to-audio narration of posts, pages, WooCommerce product descriptions, or selected passages. The GSpeech plugin acts as a lightweight WordPress text-to-speech bridge to the GSpeech Cloud, bringing together 300+ AI voices across 98 languages, voice selection, audio players, and real-time audio translation in 98 languages. Voice synthesis, audio storage, smart caching, and playback delivery run in the cloud instead of on your WordPress server, helping your site stay fast while visitors listen to your content. No API keys required: GSpeech manages provider connections and billing through the GSpeech Cloud Console, with transparent all-in-one pricing. Voice options include OpenAI TTS, Gemini Pro TTS, Gemini Flash TTS, and Google Cloud Text-to-Speech voice families such as Chirp 3 HD, Neural2, Polyglot, and WaveNet. The Voice Vibes system offers 100+ ready-made expressive voice styles, each customizable; controls and language availability vary by model. The free WordPress cloud plan uses machine voices in 68 languages. 🔗 WordPress Text to Speech Plugin Setup & Useful Links AI Voice Demo | Player Demos | Setup Guide | Support | Dashboard | Pricing | Videos | Blog ⚡ Add Text to Speech to WordPress in Minutes GSpeech combines simple setup with a powerful cloud audio platform built for publishers, businesses, and content creators. ✅ Add Text to Speech to Your Website – Convert WordPress posts, pages, WooCommerce content, and selected text into natural-sounding audio. ✅ Unified AI Voice Engine (commercial plans) – Access 300+ voices in 98 languages powered by Google Cloud Text-to-Speech, OpenAI, Gemini, Chirp3 HD, Neural2, Polyglot, and WaveNet through one GSpeech platform, without managing separate provider accounts or API keys. ✅ GSpeech Cloud Console – Manage multiple websites, voices, audio players, translations, analytics, and generated audio files from one unified cloud dashboard. ✅ Real-Time Audio Translation (commercial plans) – Translate website content and selected text into listenable audio using any GSpeech player, including Read Highlighted Text, even on single-language websites. ✅ Multiple Customizable Audio Players – Choose from Full Page, Button, Circle, Floating, Context, and Read Highlighted Text (RHT) players for different layouts and listening experiences. ✅ First-Listen Cloud Generation – Audio is generated in the GSpeech Cloud when a visitor first requests playback, then securely stored and intelligently cached for future plays without repeated synthesis or additional WordPress server load. ✅ Back-Catalog Cloud Generation – Posts from past years generate on first listen. You do not pre-generate the entire archive or spend characters on unread old articles. ✅ Secure Cloud Storage – Generate Once, Keep and Play – Audio is generated once and securely stored in the GSpeech Cloud. Canceling your plan does not delete your audio library. Existing files remain available in your dashboard for playback and download. ✅ One-Click Activation – Activate the GSpeech Cloud Console from WordPress Admin and start generating audio in minutes. ✅ Cloud Processing, No Server Load – Voice synthesis, audio storage, smart caching, and playback delivery are handled in the GSpeech Cloud, keeping your WordPress hosting fast and lightweight. ✅ No API Keys Required – Use cloud text-to-speech voices without managing Google, OpenAI, Gemini, or other external API accounts. ✅ Smart Audio Sync – Updated WordPress content automatically regenerates audio so visitors always hear the latest version. ✅ Intelligent Content Isolation – Target the real article content and exclude menus, sidebars, ads, footers, URLs, shortcodes, and other unwanted elements from audio playback using flexible content rules. ✅ Multilingual Audio (commercial plans) – Automatically adapt audio to the active website language and let visitors listen in 98 languages, making GSpeech ideal for multilingual WordPress websites. ✅ Voice Prompts & Emotions (commercial plans) – Use custom prompts, voice instructions, emotions, and styles to control narration tone, delivery, and brand voice. Trusted by thousands of websites, GSpeech processes over 200 million characters per month, is rated ⭐4.8/5 on WordPress.org, and has 220+ five-star reviews across WordPress.org, Joomla (JED), AppSumo, and Trustpilot. Since 2012, GSpeech has pioneered WordPress text-to-speech innovations now widely adopted across the industry, starting with Listen to Selected Text, which evolved into today’s Read Highlighted Text (RHT) Player. In 2023, GSpeech pioneered First-Listen Cloud Generation for WordPress with the GSpeech Cloud Console. Unread articles do not consume generation characters. Similar first-listen patterns have since become common. Unlike many text-to-speech plugins that rely on limited browser voices or require users to configure and pay for external API keys, GSpeech provides a cloud-powered WordPress text-to-speech platform with simple setup, transparent all-in-one pricing, included generation credits, and no API key management. Audio is generated using advanced cloud voices, optimized through the GSpeech cloud infrastructure, and cached for fast playback across browsers and devices. GSpeech can also generate audio for very long articles, supporting content with up to 7 hours of playback per article. The GSpeech Cloud Console lets users generate and manage WordPress text-to-speech audio directly from the WordPress admin panel. The same GSpeech engine can also be integrated into Shopify, Wix, Joomla, and custom HTML websites, enabling publishers to add text-to-speech audio across multiple platforms. 🎬 WordPress Text-to-Speech Plugin – Step-by-Step Video Tutorial For current OpenAI and Gemini voice samples, use the Live AI Voice Demo. The video below demonstrates plugin setup and player features. 🎬 GSpeech – Full Text-to-Speech Platform Overview Listen to our AI voices in the Live AI Voice Demo. 👆 Why Use the GSpeech Text-to-Speech Plugin? ✅ Improve Website Accessibility – Provide audio versions of your content for visitors who prefer listening instead of reading. ✅ Increase Engagement – Let users listen to articles, blog posts, and product descriptions while browsing or multitasking. ✅ Boost SEO and Time on Page – Audio content can improve engagement signals and create a richer user experience. ✅ Repurpose Written Content – Turn posts, pages, tutorials, and WooCommerce descriptions into reusable audio experiences. 🎯 Use Cases – Where WordPress Text-to-Speech Is Most Valuable GSpeech helps different types of websites turn written content into engaging audio experiences. 📰 Blogs and News Websites – Let readers listen to long articles and narrated blog posts while multitasking, commuting, or working. 🛒 WooCommerce Product Pages – Add audio narration to product descriptions to improve accessibility and engagement. 🎓 Education and E-Learning – Help students absorb lessons and documentation through audio learning. 📚 Long-Form Articles and Documentation – Make guides, tutorials, and reports easier to consume through text-to-speech narration. 🌍 International Audiences – Offer translated audio from a single-language website, or match narration to an existing multilingual site. 👉 Text to Speech by GSpeech – Core Plugin Features ✅ Easy Setup & One-Click Activation: Activate the GSpeech Cloud Console from WP Admin and add audio to posts, pages, custom post types, and WooCommerce content without server configuration. ✅ 98 Languages & Cloud Voices: Generate natural-sounding speech through GSpeech-managed cloud engines. Voice and language availability varies by plan (Free machine voices: 68 languages; Personal and higher: 300+ AI voices in 98 languages), with no external API keys required. ✅ Cloud Processing, Smart Caching & Sync: Voice generation, storage, and delivery run in the GSpeech Cloud, keeping WordPress fast and lightweight. Audio is generated once, played unlimited times, and automatically regenerated when content changes. ✅ Multiple Audio Players: Use Full Page, Button, Circle, Floating, Context, and Read Highlighted Text (RHT) players for different layouts and listening experiences. ✅ Read Highlighted Text (RHT): The modern evolution of GSpeech’s original Listen to Selected Text feature, introduced in 2012. Visitors can select any passage and listen instantly – Demo. ✅ Gutenberg Player Block: Full, Button, or Circle player in the editor. ✅ Shortcodes & Display Rules: Insert players with [gspeech], [gspeech-button], or [gspeech-circle] and control where they appear across your website. ✅ Long-Article Support: Generate audio for content with up to 7 hours of playback per article. ✅ Intelligent Content Isolation: Exclude menus, ads, sidebars, footers, URLs, shortcodes, special characters, and other unwanted elements from audio output. ✅ Smart Pronunciation Aliases: Customize how brand names, acronyms, technical terms, and names are spoken using global, language-based, or locale-specific pronunciation rules, while keeping the visible website text unchanged. Learn more. ✅ Audio Database & Analytics: Administrators can manage and download generated audio files, and track plays by country, city, and device directly from WP Admin. ✅ Welcome Messages: Greet visitors with automatic audio and control where and how often messages play. ✅ Customizable Responsive Players: Choose from 16+ themes with modern, mobile-friendly, and cross-browser-compatible designs. ⚙️ WordPress Compatibility GSpeech works seamlessly with most WordPress environments, including popular themes, page builders, multilingual plugins, caching systems, and WooCommerce websites. ✅ Gutenberg Editor ✅ WooCommerce ✅ Divi ✅ Elementor ✅ WPBakery ✅ GTranslate, WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress ✅ WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache ✅ Yoast SEO, RankMath, All in One SEO The plugin works with most WordPress themes and hosting environments without requiring special server configuration. 🌍 Supported Languages – WordPress Text to Speech in 98 Languages GSpeech supports 98 languages for text-to-speech generation on single-language and multilingual WordPress websites. Free machine voices cover 68 languages. Personal includes 100K AI + 1M machine credits monthly, with AI voices in 98 languages. Some of the most popular supported languages include: English (US, UK, AU) (English): Text to Speech Spanish (Spain, US, Latin America, Mexico) (Español): Texto a voz French (France, Canada) (Français): Synthèse vocale German (Deutsch): Text-zu-Sprache Italian (Italiano): Sintesi vocale Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal) (Português): Texto para fala Russian (Русский): Преобразование текста в речь Armenian (Հայերեն): Տեքստից խոսք Arabic (العربية): تحويل النص إلى كلام Hebrew (עברית): טקסט לדיבור Hindi (हिन्दी): पाठ से वाक् Bengali (বাংলা): টেক্সট টু স্পিচ Chinese (中文): 文字转语音 Japanese (日本語): テキスト読み上げ Korean (한국어): 텍스트 음声 변환 Additional supported languages include Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cantonese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Galician, Greek, Gujarati, Georgian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Lao, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Maori, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Punjabi, Romanian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Welsh, and more. See the full list of supported languages in the FAQ section. 📚 Usage and Shortcodes ✅ Activate the GSpeech Cloud Console directly from WP Admin with one click. ✅ The audio player can automatically appear on posts, pages, and WooCommerce products. ✅ Manage player settings in Cloud Console → Widgets. ✅ Use shortcodes: [gspeech], [gspeech-button], and [gspeech-circle]. ✅ The Read Highlighted Text (RHT) player works automatically after activation. ✅ Exclude elements from audio playback using the class nospeech. ✅ View player examples on the Demo Page. 🛟 Support For free plugin questions, please use the WordPress.org support forum. For GSpeech account, billing, Cloud Console, commercial features, or website-specific setup, please contact GSpeech Support. 💬 WordPress Text to Speech Plugin – CUSTOMER TESTIMONIAL A Premium Text-to-Speech Service ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unite.AI praised GSpeech for natural voice quality, accessibility, and stronger user engagement on long-form AI content. — Antoine Tardif – CEO Unite.AI ⭐ What Users Say About GSpeech Read real feedback from publishers, bloggers, and website owners on the GSpeech Testimonials page. 🚀 Upgrade to GSpeech Commercial Plans for Advanced Features Unlock premium features by upgrading to GSpeech Commercial. The commercial version of the plugin provides advanced capabilities, premium AI voices, and the best listening experience for your visitors. 🌟 GSpeech Text-to-Speech – Commercial Features ✅ Unified AI Voice Engine: Access 300+ voices in 98 languages through one GSpeech platform. Choose from premium AI voices powered by OpenAI, Google Cloud Text-to-Speech, Gemini AI voice models, Chirp3 HD, Neural2, Polyglot, and WaveNet without managing separate provider accounts or API keys. Control speed, pitch, and voice style to match your content. See demo (AI voices marked with a star). ✅ Real-Time Audio Translation: Translate website content instantly into supported languages and let visitors listen using any GSpeech player, including selected text with the Read Highlighted Text feature. See the language list in the FAQ. ✅ Multilingual Mode: Automatically detects the active website language and generates speech with the appropriate voice. Perfect for multilingual WordPress websites using GTranslate, WPML, Polylang or TranslatePress. ✅ Custom Voice Prompts, Instructions and Emotions: Use custom prompts, voice instructions, expressive styles, and emotional delivery to control tone, mood, narration style, and brand voice. ✅ Voice Vibes: Choose from 100+ expressive voice styles, including emotional, warm, confident, calm, whisper, narrator, and branded voice directions. Edit any preset to create custom Voice Vibes. ✅ Voice Tuning: Adjust speaking pitch (±20 semitones) and speed (up to 4× faster or slower). ✅ Smart Pronunciation Aliases: Language- and locale-based spoken replacements for brands, acronyms, and names. Visible copy stays unchanged. Learn more. ✅ Advanced Player Features: Includes real-time captions, a sticky context player, voice selection, and real-time audio translation directly from the player. ✅ GTranslate Compatibility: Works seamlessly with the GTranslate multilingual plugin. ✅ Simple Pricing, No API Keys Required: Access premium OpenAI, Google Cloud, and Gemini AI voices with one straightforward GSpeech plan. No separate API accounts, usage tracking, or external billing required. ✅ RHT Advanced Views: Access RHT Player View 2 and View 3 with translation and text panels. See demo. ✅ Download Audio: Allow visitors to download audio files (.mp3) directly from the player. ✅ Seamless Updates: Cloud-based SaaS architecture – no manual updates required. 👉 Web Content Accessibility (WCAG) Guideline Text-to-Speech by GSpeech helps WordPress websites improve accessibility and support WCAG standards with just one click. 🎬 GSpeech Text to Speech – WordPress Video Tour 🎬 Text to Speech for WordPress – Transform Text into Audio with AI Voices 🎬 Why GSpeech Lifetime Deal Is a Powerful WordPress Text-to-Speech Solution 🌟 Expert Reviews & Featured Mentions GSpeech is recommended by technology reviewers and listed among the best WordPress text-to-speech plugins. Top 10 Text-to-Speech Plugins for WordPress – Unite AI GSpeech Review – Techozens Best Text-to-Speech Plugins for WordPress – BDThemes 7 Best Text-to-Speech WordPress Plugins – WPExplorer ⚙️ GSpeech Text to Speech (3.X) Usage Terms GSpeech 3.X is powered by the GSpeech cloud backend. By using it, you agree to the Terms of Service. GSpeech also includes legacy GSpeech 2.X mode. GSpeech 2.X legacy features: ✅ Unlimited text-to-speech conversions ✅ Place speakers anywhere using {gspeech}text to speech{/gspeech} 🔗 Live Demo 🔗 Documentation
