11 Best Web Accessibility Plugins [for WordPress]

As a site owner, accessibility is non-negotiable. But how you go about making your site accessible… that’s another story.

Web accessibility plugins are designed to make optimizing your site for accessibility and ADA and WCAG-compliant easy.

Here are the top 11.

UserWay

Best overall

Pricing: $490-$3,290+ per year

With three different plans, UserWay is our overall top pick for accessibility plugins for Word Press.

Starting with a single line of code, UserWay’s AI-based technology ensures your site is compliant with WCAG 2.1 & ADA. Since the code is intuitive, it constantly checks for updates to guidelines and adjusts your site accordingly to make sure your site stays compliant.

The easy-to-navigate interface allows users with any disability to choose an option that makes the site more accessible to them. These include options for font and color handling, animations, audio muting, and an on-demand dictionary.

The code is also designed to be easily read by a screen reader.

• Read our Review on UserWay

accessiBe

Runner-up for best overall

Pricing: $490/$1,490/$3,490/Custom Pricing per year

With 2-minute integration and turnaround, accessiBe makes ADA compliance fast and easy.

Their pricing plan is similar to UserWay’s, making it an equally affordable option.

Once you install the widget (it’s super easy) all it takes is 48 hours to scan your site and make the changes necessary to get it totally compliant with WCAG and ADA guidelines. It then will scan your site every 24 hours to make sure it remains compliant.

This widget is fully customizable, allowing it to adapt and fit into the design of your site intuitively.

• Read our Review on accessiBe

AudioEye

Best for legal advice along with accessibility software

Pricing: from $490/$1,990/$4,990 per year

Using a simple three-step process with the option for legal advice, AudioEye offers just about everything you could possibly need to get your site compliant and keep it that way.

The three steps are: find, fix, and monitor. First, the widget will scan for over 400 accessibility issues. Then, they fix any issues they come across (they claim to have solutions for more accessibility issues than any other similar widget in the industry.) Lastly, automated monitoring refreshes with every visitor and on every page, keeping the site accessible in real time.

What sets AudioEye apart from others is the expert legal team that can help provide legal advice and counsel if you are challenged with legal action.

• Read our Review on AudioEye

EqualWeb

Free accessibility checker and solutions

Price: Free-$39 per month

Offering completely free AI-powered solutions, we love how EqualWeb makes accessibility… well, more accessible.

Currently installed in over 100,000,000 web pages, this plugin promises compliance with WCAG 2.1, ADA, Section 508, AODA, EN 301549 and IS 5568.

Their solutions are all-inclusive, featuring an AI EqualWeb ToolBar on the site, manually remediating accessibility issues, and periodically scanning, automatically and manually, for any new issues.

EqualWeb integrates these three elements into a whole solution, always remaining on top of the latest accessibility advancements and regulations while providing up to a $1,000,000 warranty.

SiteImprove

All-in-one site optimization solutions

Price: N/A – Does not disclose pricing on website

With a user-friendly platform, all-in-one content creation solutions, and global availability, SiteImprove is a great solution for businesses of all sizes.

Site owners can use SiteImprove to do everything from checking and correcting issues for accessibility to optimizing SEO to fixing broken links on the user’s site.

We recommend SiteImprove for businesses that are looking for an all-in-one solution that can ensure compliance while also optimizing their site, providing analytics, and creating end-to-end workflows that create a better experience for all users.

WP Accessibility

Price: Free

For $0, WordPress’s own plugin, WP Accessibility, can make your site more accessible.

This free plugin addresses many of the common accessibility issues that sites made with WordPress have. Some of these include adding language and text direction attributes to your HTML attribute if missing, adding long descriptions to images, adding an outline to the keyboard focus state for focusable elements, and adding labels to standard WordPress form fields, among others.

It’s important to note that the goal of this plugin is not to make a site ADA or WCAG-compliant. That being said, if you need a free and easy plugin to make your site more accessible, WordPress’s own is a good option.

WP ADA Compliance Check Basic

Price: Free

Though it won’t make your site accessible on its own, the WP ADA Compliance Check is a great way to see what gaps need to be filled in your site’s accessibility plan.

It integrates seamlessly with your workflow, keeping things simple. It works with any website editor, including Gutenberg, Elementor, Beaver Builder, ClassicPress, and Divi.

The test includes 79 error checks (52 for the basic version) which they report back to you in a comprehensive, easy-to-understand format.

This check can automatically scan new posts and content as it is published on your site or you can run a complete scan of your website to identify issues in all of your content.

One Click Accessibility

Price: Free

One of the fastest ways to implement better accessibility features on your site is One Click Accessibility.

The accessible toolbar toggling hat that comes with the One Click Accessibility plugin allows users to offer things like resizing font (increase/decrease), grayscale, negative or high contrast, light background, links underline, readable font, and a link to Sitemap / Feedback / Help page.

Other notable features include enabling skip to content, adding outline focus for focusable elements, removing the target attribute from links, adding landmark roles to all links, and a customizer for style adjustment.

Zeno Font Resizer

Price: Free

While many of the other plugins on this list offer more generalized solutions, Zeno Font Resizer has a more focused approach.

This plugin uses JavaScript and jQuery to set and tweak the font size on your website. To make things even more convenient for users, their individual settings are saved in a cookie so that returning visitors see the same size they saw on their last visit.

Admins can use the admin page to set which specific content is being resized, the resize steps and other options regarding text size.

Accessibility Widget

Price: Free

Another impressive open-source accessibility plugin is the aptly named Accessibility Widget.

This widget’s job is pretty straightforward: it allows users to install a simple sidebar widget to change the text size on the users’ WP sites.

Sure, it’s pretty simple, but that’s the whole point. After all, accessibility features should be accessible, right?

Formidable Forms

Price: $39.50/$99.50/$199.50/$299.50 per year

Filling out any sort of contact form can easily become a hurdle that people with different disabilities have for a variety of reasons. Formidable Forms is dedicated to changing that.

By offering things like flexible form layout design, smart forms with conditional logic, RTL (right-to-left) text direction support, and conversational forms, form formatting (I’m saying form a lot) is easy to do as an admin and easy to fill out as a user.

Front-end editing allows users to customize their own experience without admin oversight.

Best of all, they offer analytics and reporting so that site owners can see what’s working and what’s not, and adjust accessibility options accordingly.

What Does a Web Accessibility Plugin Do?

Web accessibility plugins are a quick way for sites to make their content more easily accessible and understandable to people with disabilities.

The deal is, ADA and WCAG guidelines require websites to have features that accommodate disabilities. Specifically, all sites (yes, all) must be robust, perceivable, operable, and understandable to everyone.

A web accessibility plugin adds a simple line of code to a site that automatically scans the site for inaccessible content or code and enables accessibility features that ensure the site meets all of the above criteria.

Accommodations like alt tags and text transcriptions for audio and video, high-contrast text, site language in header code, and suggestions/alternatives for user input errors are all included in these plugins and widgets.

Aside from the obvious benefit of having a site that allows for more inclusive user interaction, these features ensure that your site is compliant with federal laws and regulations, which prevents you from getting hit with a lawsuit.

Are Web Accessibility Plugins Easy to Implement?

Yes! The best thing/biggest selling point of web accessibility plugins is that they are incredibly easy to implement.

These plugins often use just a single line of code. All a site owner needs to do is log into their WordPress site, select “plugins” on the sidebar, select “Add New,” and hit the “install now” button once they find the proper accessibility plugin. After selecting activate, the plugin does all of the work for you.

Since they function automatically, they’re a great alternative to hiring someone to code everything on your site in order to make it accessible.

Should I Get an ADA plugin?

If you want to make sure your site is accessible and compliant with the law but don’t want to spend the time and money to hire a developer to create everything from scratch, you should get an ADA plugin.

They’re inexpensive, they’re easy to use, and they can save you a lot of time and stress down the line.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an accessibility plugin?

An accessibility plugin is a short line of code created to be easily implemented on a site to make site functions and user experience accessible to people with disabilities.

How do I add accessibility features to my website?

You can add accessibility features to your site by installing a simple plugin or hiring a developer to write code that creates more accessible site functions.

What are the 4 principles of web accessibility?

The four principles that guide the WCAG are known by the acronym POUR, which stands for perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.

What does web accessibility do?

Web accessibility alters the code of a site to offer features to users with different disabilities that make it easier (or possible) for those users to navigate the site.