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This\none reads the page the way your server actually sends it to a visitor, so it sees your\ntheme, your navigation, your footer, your widgets and whatever your page builder put\nthere. That matters because an author can have a perfectly clean post sitting on a failing\npage and never find out.<\/p>\n\n<p>It checks eighteen things that can be decided with certainty, among them:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>images a screen reader cannot describe, and alt text that is only a file name<\/li>\n<li>form controls with no label<\/li>\n<li>buttons and links that announce nothing<\/li>\n<li>pages with no title, or no language, or a language that is not a real code<\/li>\n<li>a viewport setting that stops a phone zooming in<\/li>\n<li>empty headings, and headings that skip a level in the outline<\/li>\n<li>embedded frames with no name<\/li>\n<li>identifiers used more than once, and labels pointing at something that is not there<\/li>\n<li>elements that jump the keyboard order<\/li>\n<li>lists whose item count is announced wrongly, and tables of data with no header cells<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>It also lists the images in your media library that have no alt text, which is usually the\nlargest and cheapest thing to fix on any site.<\/p>\n\n<h4>What it does not do, and why that is written here<\/h4>\n\n<p>These checks cover roughly a third of WCAG 2.1 A and AA. That is not a limitation of this\nplugin, it is the limit of what any automated tool can decide. Nothing here can tell you\nwhether your alt text says anything useful, whether somebody can complete your checkout\nusing only a keyboard, whether focus order makes sense, or whether your colours have\nenough contrast, which cannot be worked out from markup at all.<\/p>\n\n<p>So this plugin will never tell you that your site is accessible or compliant, because it\ncannot know that and neither can anything else that runs automatically. What it can tell\nyou is a list of specific things that are wrong, each one with the element it is about.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Nothing leaves your site<\/h4>\n\n<p>Version 1.0 makes no external requests of any kind. Every check runs on your own server,\nagainst your own pages, over your own loopback connection. There is no account, no key, no\nsignup, and no data sent anywhere. If your host blocks a site from requesting itself, the\nplugin says so plainly rather than failing quietly.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Who makes this<\/h4>\n\n<p>AuditRush sells accessibility audits, and this plugin exists because the automated layer of\nthat work is useful on its own and costs us nothing to give away. There is one link to our\nsite, at the bottom of one screen you chose to open. That is the whole of the sales pitch.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Install and activate.<\/li>\n<li>Open <strong>Accessibility<\/strong> in the admin menu.<\/li>\n<li>Press <strong>Check now<\/strong> on any page, or just publish something: an update queues a check\nautomatically a few seconds later.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"does%20this%20make%20my%20site%20compliant%3F\"><h3>Does this make my site compliant?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No, and be careful with any tool that says it does. Automated rules decide about a third\nof WCAG. 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