Title: AuditRush Accessibility Scanner
Author: auditrush
Published: <strong>October 10, 2026</strong>
Last modified: October 10, 2026

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# AuditRush Accessibility Scanner

 By [auditrush](https://profiles.wordpress.org/auditrush/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/auditrush-accessibility.1.0.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/auditrush-accessibility/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/auditrush-accessibility/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/auditrush-accessibility/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/auditrush-accessibility/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/auditrush-accessibility/)

## Description

Most accessibility checkers for WordPress look at what you wrote, inside the editor.
This
 one reads the page the way your server actually sends it to a visitor, so 
it sees your theme, your navigation, your footer, your widgets and whatever your
page builder put there. That matters because an author can have a perfectly clean
post sitting on a failing page and never find out.

It checks eighteen things that can be decided with certainty, among them:

 * images a screen reader cannot describe, and alt text that is only a file name
 * form controls with no label
 * buttons and links that announce nothing
 * pages with no title, or no language, or a language that is not a real code
 * a viewport setting that stops a phone zooming in
 * empty headings, and headings that skip a level in the outline
 * embedded frames with no name
 * identifiers used more than once, and labels pointing at something that is not
   there
 * elements that jump the keyboard order
 * lists whose item count is announced wrongly, and tables of data with no header
   cells

It also lists the images in your media library that have no alt text, which is usually
the
 largest and cheapest thing to fix on any site.

#### What it does not do, and why that is written here

These checks cover roughly a third of WCAG 2.1 A and AA. That is not a limitation
of this
 plugin, it is the limit of what any automated tool can decide. Nothing 
here can tell you whether your alt text says anything useful, whether somebody can
complete your checkout using only a keyboard, whether focus order makes sense, or
whether your colours have enough contrast, which cannot be worked out from markup
at all.

So this plugin will never tell you that your site is accessible or compliant, because
it
 cannot know that and neither can anything else that runs automatically. What
it can tell you is a list of specific things that are wrong, each one with the element
it is about.

#### Nothing leaves your site

Version 1.0 makes no external requests of any kind. Every check runs on your own
server,
 against your own pages, over your own loopback connection. There is no 
account, no key, no signup, and no data sent anywhere. If your host blocks a site
from requesting itself, the plugin says so plainly rather than failing quietly.

#### Who makes this

AuditRush sells accessibility audits, and this plugin exists because the automated
layer of
 that work is useful on its own and costs us nothing to give away. There
is one link to our site, at the bottom of one screen you chose to open. That is 
the whole of the sales pitch.

## Screenshots

[⌊The overview: your published pages, worst first.⌉⌊The overview: your published
pages, worst first.⌉[

The overview: your published pages, worst first.

[⌊The panel on the edit screen, with the elements each finding is about.⌉⌊The panel
on the edit screen, with the elements each finding is about.⌉[

The panel on the edit screen, with the elements each finding is about.

[⌊Images in the media library with no alt text.⌉⌊Images in the media library with
no alt text.⌉[

Images in the media library with no alt text.

## Installation

 1. Install and activate.
 2. Open **Accessibility** in the admin menu.
 3. Press **Check now** on any page, or just publish something: an update queues a 
    check automatically a few seconds later.

## FAQ

### Does this make my site compliant?

No, and be careful with any tool that says it does. Automated rules decide about
a third
 of WCAG. The rest needs a person.

### Why does it say my page could not be checked?

Some hosts block a site from making a request to itself. WordPress has a Site Health
test
 for the same thing. When that happens the plugin tells you rather than showing
you an empty result that looks like good news.

### It reported something that is not wrong.

Press **Ignore this** on that finding and it stays gone across future checks. If
a whole
 rule is misfiring on your theme, please open a support thread with the 
URL, because a false positive is a bug in this plugin.

### Does it slow down my site?

No. Nothing runs for your visitors. Checks run in the admin, or a few seconds after
you
 save, and never during a page load.

### Will it change my content?

No. It reads and reports. It never edits a post, a template or a setting.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“AuditRush Accessibility Scanner” is open source software. The following people 
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ auditrush ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/auditrush/)

[Translate “AuditRush Accessibility Scanner” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/auditrush-accessibility)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auditrush-accessibility/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/auditrush-accessibility/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/auditrush-accessibility/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/auditrush-accessibility/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0

 * First release. Eighteen deterministic checks against your rendered pages, a media
   
   library alt text audit, a per-post panel, and a sortable column on the posts 
   and pages lists.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **13 hours ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.1.3**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [a11y](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/a11y/)[accessibility](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/accessibility/)
   [Alt Text](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/alt-text/)[screen reader](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/screen-reader/)
   [wcag](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wcag/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/auditrush-accessibility/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ auditrush ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/auditrush/)

## Support

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