WordPress plugin
AccessVane for WordPress
Find the accessibility problems on your site, understand them, and repair the ones that can be repaired safely. Free, no account, and no data leaves your server.
Free on the WordPress.org plugin directory. Search for AccessVane under Plugins → Add New in your own admin, or download it from the link above.
What it does differently
Scans inside your own browser
Each page loads into a hidden frame in your admin session and is tested there. Your server does no rendering work, nothing about your site is sent anywhere, and there is no per-scan cost. Scan as often as you like.
Repairs the pages, not the browser
Where a fix can be made in PHP it is made in the real markup before the page is sent. That is the whole difference between this and an overlay, and it is the difference that holds up under scrutiny.
Bulk alt text editor
Every image missing a description on one screen, with the picture next to the box, saving as you type. WordPress normally makes you open one modal per image.
Accessibility statement generator
Builds the statement the European Accessibility Act requires, worded honestly, as a draft page you review before publishing. It admits what is not fixed yet, which is what regulators actually want to see.
The manual checklist, free
Sixteen checks no scanner can perform, written so you can carry them out yourself. Other tools sell this. Withholding it would be withholding two thirds of the answer.
Nothing switched on by default
Every repair is off until you enable it, listed with an honest note about what it changes and what could go wrong. Switching one off restores exactly what your theme produced before.
The repairs it can make
22 of the 99 failures we check can be repaired without a human decision. The rest need an editing change, and the plugin tells you exactly which screen to open for each one.
| Repair | What it does for visitors |
|---|---|
| Skip to main content link | Lets keyboard users jump past a long menu on every page. |
| Visible keyboard focus | Shows where the keyboard is. Many themes remove this for looks. |
| Pinch-zoom on phones | Unblocks zooming when a theme or speed plugin has disabled it. |
| Missing image descriptions | Falls back to the caption, and marks genuinely decorative images as such. |
| Unlabelled form fields | Gives orphaned fields a name so a screen reader says something useful. |
| Untitled embeds | Names each video and map instead of announcing only “frame”. |
| Unnamed menus | Tells several navigation areas apart on the same page. |
| Keyboard access to scrolling areas | Wide tables and code blocks become reachable without a mouse. |
| Underlined content links | So colour-blind readers can see which words are links. |
| Page language | Stops a screen reader reading English with the wrong accent. |
What this plugin will not claim
It will not tell you that you are legally compliant, because no plugin honestly can. Automated testing reliably finds about a third of WCAG failures. A tool can see that an image has alt text; it cannot tell whether that text is accurate. It can see that a button can be focused; it cannot tell whether pressing it does the right thing.
In 2025 the US Federal Trade Commission fined an accessibility vendor $1 million partly over claims of exactly that kind. So AccessVane says the limit out loud, on every report, and ships the manual checklist for the remaining two thirds free rather than selling it back to you.
See what it would find on your site
The scanner here runs the same checks as the plugin.
Scan a page free