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Lodestone Accessibility Audit – Accessibility Checker
WCAG 2.2 accessibility checker: scan any page, get plain-English detail on every issue, publish a dated accessibility statement. Not an overlay.
Lodestone Accessibility Audit ranks #67,659 among WordPress.org plugins with 0+ active installations, is #442 of 642 in the Accessibility category, and was last updated Sep 23, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1.2
v1.0.8
Current Version v1.0.8
Updated 21 hours ago
Last Update on 23 Sep, 2026
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- Version
- 1.0.8
- Last Updated
- Sep 23, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.4+
- Tested Up To
- 7.1.2
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- 7.4 or higher
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Lodestone Accessibility Audit – Accessibility Checker
No, and be sceptical of any tool that says it does. Automated testing detects only a portion of accessibility barriers — commonly estimated at around a third. It is very good at the things machines can check: missing alternative text, insufficient colour contrast, unlabelled form fields, broken heading structure, invalid ARIA. It cannot tell you whether your alt text is meaningful, whether your page makes sense when read aloud in order, or whether a custom component actually works with a screen reader. This plugin finds the automatable third and is honest about the rest, including in the statement it generates for you.
No. It adds nothing to your front end. Overlays inject JavaScript that alters your pages for visitors at runtime, which is a different product with a bad reputation it has earned — they frequently break the assistive technology they claim to help, and the disability community has been consistently clear that they are not a substitute for accessible markup. This plugin only reads your pages and reports on them.
The EAA is EU legislation, in force since June 2025, that requires a range of products and services — including many websites and e-commerce operations — to meet accessibility requirements. In practice conformance is assessed against EN 301 549, which incorporates WCAG. It generally expects you to be able to show what you tested, when, what you found, and what you decided about anything you did not fix. That evidence trail is what the ignore log and the audit export exist to produce.
No. axe-core is bundled with the plugin and runs in your browser, against your own site, on your own machine. Your pages, your scan results and your ignore reasons never leave your server. The only component that could is the Freemius SDK, which handles licensing, and it starts switched off. It contacts nothing until you choose to opt in, and if you never do, it never
first (your WordPress user's name and email address, your site address and title, your WordPress and PHP versions, and the list of plugins and themes installed), and every feature works the same either way.
Contrast ratios, computed styles and focus order only exist once a page has actually been laid out by a browser. There is no way to evaluate them by parsing HTML on the server, and any tool that claims to will give you wrong answers. So the scanner loads your page in an offscreen frame and measures the real rendered result. The frame is only ever created for a logged-in user with editing permission, and the scanning script is never loaded for ordinary visitors.
Yes. Unpublished posts are scanned through their preview link, and the result is recorded against the post itself, so its history carries over when you publish.
Yes, and it will always be free to do so. Every string is translatable and a POT file ships with the plugin.
