Is your website accessible?
Run a free WCAG 2.1 AA check on any page. See exactly what's failing — and what you need to fix.
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Web accessibility isn't just good practice — under the European Accessibility Act (EAA), which has been enforceable in EU member states since 28 June 2025, many commercial websites and apps serving EU consumers are legally required to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Our scanner checks your site against the same success criteria auditors and enforcement bodies use, so you can find and fix barriers before they become a compliance or legal risk.
How it works
Playwright renders your page
A real browser loads your website — including JavaScript — and captures the live DOM.
27 WCAG 2.1 checks run
Our engine analyses images, headings, links, forms, contrast, ARIA roles, and more.
Score + action plan
Each finding is graded by severity and comes with a specific fix instruction.
What we check
Images
- ✓Missing alt text on images
- ✓Suspicious empty alt on non-decorative images
Navigation
- ✓Missing H1 heading
- ✓Multiple H1 headings on one page
- ✓Skipped heading levels (e.g. H2 → H4)
- ✓Empty links with no text or label
- ✓Generic link text ("click here", "read more")
- ✓Missing skip-navigation link
- ✓Positive tabindex values
Forms
- ✓Form inputs without associated labels
- ✓Missing autocomplete on name / email / phone
- ✓Buttons without an accessible label
- ✓Buttons with whitespace-only label
Structure
- ✓Missing or empty page <title>
- ✓No <main> landmark element
- ✓No <nav> landmark element
- ✓Duplicate ID attributes in the DOM
- ✓Missing lang attribute on <html>
- ✓Invalid lang attribute value
- ✓Data tables without header cells
- ✓Pinch-to-zoom disabled
- ✓iframe without a title attribute
ARIA
- ✓Invalid ARIA role values
- ✓aria-labelledby pointing to non-existent IDs
Color & Contrast
- ✓Insufficient text / background contrast (AA)
Media
- ✓Autoplaying audio or video
- ✓Video/audio without captions
WCAG 2.1 Level AA — the international standard
WCAG 2.1 AA is the benchmark referenced by the European Accessibility Act (EAA), which requires most B2C websites operating in the EU to be accessible by June 2025. Our scanner checks conformance against the most impactful success criteria to give you an actionable starting point.
Is website accessibility legally required in the EU?
Yes, for many businesses. The European Accessibility Act requires certain products and services sold to EU consumers — including e-commerce, banking, transport, and telecom websites — to meet accessibility requirements based on WCAG 2.1 Level AA. The compliance deadline of 28 June 2025 has already passed.
- •The EAA applies regardless of where a company is based, as long as it serves EU consumers
- •Microenterprises (fewer than 10 staff, under €2m turnover) providing services have a partial exemption — it doesn't cover all businesses or products
- •EU public-sector websites have separately been required to meet WCAG 2.1 AA since 2018, under the Web Accessibility Directive
- •Enforcement and penalties vary by member state
What is WCAG 2.1 and what do the A, AA, and AAA levels mean?
WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) is the technical standard nearly every accessibility law — including the EAA — points to. It groups checks into three conformance levels.
- •Level A: the minimum — basic barriers like missing alt text or keyboard traps
- •Level AA: the level referenced by the EAA and most laws — covers color contrast, form labels, consistent navigation, and more
- •Level AAA: the highest level, aimed at enhanced accessibility, not required for general legal compliance
- •WCAG 2.2 adds further success criteria; 2.1 AA remains the baseline referenced by current EU law
Does an accessibility overlay widget make a website compliant?
No. Overlay widgets — scripts that claim to fix accessibility automatically via a floating icon — don't resolve underlying issues like missing form labels, incorrect heading structure, or non-semantic markup. Several have drawn criticism from regulators and accessibility advocates for masking barriers rather than fixing them.
- •Overlays can't add real alt text, fix broken ARIA usage, or restructure a page's DOM
- •Screen reader users frequently report overlays making a site harder, not easier, to use
- •Genuine compliance means fixing markup, structure, and design at the source
- •Our scanner checks the underlying rendered code — the same signals an accessibility audit looks at
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