Title: Clara Accessibility Audit & AI Alt Text Author: Accessify Web Accessibility Published: November 10, 2026 Last modified: November 10, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/assets/banner-772x250. png?rev=3794151) ![](https://ps.w.org/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/assets/icon-256x256.png? rev=3794151) # Clara Accessibility Audit & AI Alt Text By [Accessify Web Accessibility](https://profiles.wordpress.org/usmanfromwixpa/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text.1.0.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/) ## Description Clara helps you find the accessibility problems in your own site and fix the most common one — images with no alt text. **Find the problems: accessibility audits** Choose any public page of your site and audit it for the issues a visitor using assistive technology would run into: errors, contrast failures, heading and structure problems, and ARIA issues, each listed with the element it was found on. Every report is saved, so you can work through it, come back to it, compare it with the next audit, and download it as a PDF to hand to whoever builds your site. **Fix your images: AI alt text** The AI Image Alt Text screen lists the images in your Media Library and shows which ones have no alt text. Pick the ones you want, or all of them, and Clara writes a short description for each. Descriptions are saved where WordPress keeps alt text— so they stay if you ever remove the plugin — and every change is recorded. You can review and edit each one, and regenerate any you are not happy with. **What it does not do** Clara adds nothing to your site’s public pages. There is no visitor-facing widget, no script on your front end and no automatic rewriting of your pages. It works on your content, from your dashboard, when you ask it to. **Everything is free right now** There is no paid tier, no trial and nothing to buy. Audits and AI alt text use AI credits, and every install currently has unlimited credits. If paid plans are introduced later this page will say so before anything changes. **Accessibility is a process** No plugin can make a site compliant with WCAG, the ADA or the European Accessibility Act, and this one does not claim to. An audit finds problems; fixing them is work you or your developer do in your own pages. Clara makes that work faster to start and easier to track. ### External services Clara uses services run by Accessify (accessify.app), the plugin’s author. Nothing is sent anywhere when you activate the plugin or open its screens. What is sent, when, and why: **1. AI alt text — api.accessify.app** Used only when you press “Generate with AI” on the AI Image Alt Text screen, for the images you chose. For each image, one of WordPress’s own smaller copies is sent— never the original upload — together with the instruction to describe it. Your site’s address, the plugin’s site ID and version, and your licence key if you have entered one, travel in the request headers so the work can be metered against your account. **2. Accessibility audits — audit.accessify.app** Used only when you run an audit. The address of the page you chose is sent; the service fetches that page as a visitor would and returns the report, which is stored on your site. Only public pages of your own site can be audited. **3. Licensing — api.accessify.app** Used only if you enter a licence key. Your key and your site’s address are sent so the plan can be checked, and re-checked about once a day. If the service cannot be reached, your plan keeps working for a fortnight rather than being switched off. **4. Support chat — Crisp (client.crisp.chat)** Accessify’s support chat, provided by Crisp (crisp.chat). **Nothing is loaded from Crisp until you press a “Contact us” button — opening the plugin’s screens contacts nobody. When you do press it, Crisp receives what a support chat needs to answer you: your site’s name and address, the administration email WordPress has on file, and which plan you are on, together with the details any browser sends (IP address, user agent). It is used on this plugin’s admin screens only, and never for a user who cannot manage options. To remove it, add this to `wp-config.php`: ``` define( 'CLARA_AUDIT_DISABLE_SUPPORT_CHAT', true ); ``` or filter it in a theme or plugin: ``` add_filter( 'clara_audit_support_chat', '__return_false' ); ``` With it off, nothing is loaded from Crisp and the “Contact us” links open a pre- filled email instead. Crisp terms: https://crisp.chat/en/terms/ — Crisp privacy: https://crisp.chat/en/ privacy/ Accessify terms: https://accessify.app/terms — Accessify privacy: https://accessify. app/privacy Post content, visitor data and WordPress user accounts are never sent to any of these services. ### Data stored on your site Two tables in your own database: saved audit reports, and the record of alt text Clara has written. The most recent 200 audit reports are kept and older ones are removed by a daily maintenance job; to keep a different number: ``` add_filter( 'clara_audit_reports_kept', function () { return 500; } ); ``` Return `0` to keep every report. Alt text itself is stored where WordPress stores it, in each image’s own alt field, so it stays whatever you do with the plugin. **Deleting the plugin keeps your settings and reports** unless you tick the option to delete them on the Plans & Licence screen first. Deleting and reinstalling is a common way to fix a broken update and should not cost you your history. On a multisite network, deleting a site also deletes this plugin’s tables for that site. **Sites that deploy from source** can set the licence key in `wp-config.php` instead of typing it into the admin: ``` define( 'CLARA_AUDIT_LICENSE_KEY', 'your-key' ); ``` The service addresses can be overridden the same way, with CLARA_AUDIT_CLOUD_API and `CLARA_AUDIT_AUDIT_API` — for example to point a staging site at a staging environment. ### Source code The admin screens are a React application. What WordPress loads is the built bundle in `assets/build/`, which is minified. The source it is built from ships **inside this plugin**, under `admin-app/`, along with the build configuration and a lockfile pinning every dependency: * `admin-app/src/` — the application * `admin-app/package.json` and `package-lock.json` — the exact dependency tree * `admin-app/vite.config.js` and `vite.pdf.config.js` — the build To rebuild the bundles from that source, with Node 18 or newer: ``` cd admin-app && npm ci && npm run build ``` All bundled libraries are GPL-compatible: React, Shopify Polaris, i18next, jsPDF and Tailwind are MIT. The PHP is not built and needs no toolchain — it is exactly what runs. ## Screenshots [⌊The dashboard: the latest audit and how much of the Media Library has alt text.⌉⌊ The dashboard: the latest audit and how much of the Media Library has alt text.⌉[ The dashboard: the latest audit and how much of the Media Library has alt text. [⌊An accessibility audit report.⌉⌊An accessibility audit report.⌉[ An accessibility audit report. [⌊Saved audit reports.⌉⌊Saved audit reports.⌉[ Saved audit reports. [⌊AI alt text for your Media Library.⌉⌊AI alt text for your Media Library.⌉[ AI alt text for your Media Library. ## Installation 1. Install and activate the plugin. 2. Open **Clara Accessibility** in the admin menu. 3. Go to **Audit & Reports** and audit your home page, or to **AI Image Alt Text** to see which images in your Media Library have no alt text. ## FAQ ### Does this make my site ADA or WCAG compliant? No, and be wary of any plugin that says it does. Compliance is a property of your content, your markup and your design. Clara helps you find problems and fix missing alt text; the rest of the fixing happens in your own pages. ### Does it add anything to my site’s front end? No. Clara has no visitor-facing widget and loads nothing on your public pages. ### What does an audit check? Errors such as missing form labels and missing alternative text, contrast failures, heading and structure problems, and ARIA issues. Each finding comes with the element it was found on, so it can be located and fixed. ### Can it audit a page that is private, local or behind a login? No. The audit service fetches the page as a visitor would, so the page has to be reachable from the public internet. No credits are used for a page it cannot reach. ### Where is the alt text stored? In WordPress’s own alt text field for each image, the same place you would type it by hand. Themes and page builders pick it up as usual, and it stays if you remove the plugin. ### Will it overwrite alt text I wrote myself? Not unless you ask it to. Images that already have alt text are skipped, and regenerating one is a choice you make for that image. ### What happens to my data if I delete the plugin? Nothing is removed unless you tick the option asking for it. Alt text written by the plugin is stored in WordPress’s own field, so it survives regardless. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Clara Accessibility Audit & AI Alt Text” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Accessify Web Accessibility ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/usmanfromwixpa/) [Translate “Clara Accessibility Audit & AI Alt Text” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.1 * The search box on the reports screen now gives an example from your own site. * The tooltip on a report’s score now says it is the accessibility score, and no longer adds a horizontal scrollbar to the screen. #### 1.0.0 * First release. ## Meta * Version **1.0.1** * Last updated **1 day ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.4** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [accessibility](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/accessibility/)[accessibility checker](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/accessibility-checker/) [AI](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ai/)[Alt Text](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/alt-text/) [wcag](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wcag/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/clara-accessibility-audit-ai-alt-text/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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