Lodestone Accessibility Audit

Accessibility Audit finds the accessibility problems on your WordPress pages and tells you what
is wrong, which WCAG 2.2 success criterion it fails, which element is at fault, and how to fix
it. It is a scanner and a reporter for the person maintaining the site — not a widget bolted
onto the front end for visitors.

Scanning runs in your own browser using axe-core, the same open-source engine behind most
professional accessibility tooling. Your pages and your results are never sent anywhere. No
account, no API key, no scanning service, no setup wizard. Activate the plugin and scan a page
immediately.

This is not an accessibility overlay

Overlay widgets promise to “fix” accessibility with a line of JavaScript that rewrites your
page for visitors. They are rejected by the disability community, they have been the subject of
lawsuits, and they do not work. This plugin adds nothing to your front end at all. It shows you
what is broken so that you can fix it properly, in your content and your theme.

What the free version does, permanently

• Scan any post, page or custom post type on demand, from the row action in your lists or from the block editor sidebar.
• Re-scan automatically when you save a post in the block editor.
• Full detail on every issue: the axe rule, its impact level, the WCAG 2.2 success criterion it maps to, the CSS selector, the offending markup, and a link to the fix documentation.
• A dashboard across everything you have scanned: open issues, a breakdown by severity, and the worst offending pages.
• Ignore an individual issue, with a required written reason recorded against your name and the date.
• Generate a plain accessibility statement page.

There is no page limit, no scan quota, no trial period, and nothing that switches itself off
later. If you never buy the Pro version, nothing you use today stops working.

What Pro adds

Pro is for people who have to prove the work was done: a full ignore log with author, date and
reason, exportable; history and trend lines showing regressions; CSV and printable audit
exports; and the EN 301 549 statement form the European Accessibility Act expects. It also adds
a full-site scan queue, scheduled re-scans, a small set of genuinely safe server-side fixes (all
off by default), WP-CLI and a multisite network dashboard.

One notice, and one menu

The plugin shows exactly one dismissible admin notice, ever. It tells you where the plugin
lives and retires itself the moment you open that screen. It registers one top-level menu and
nothing else: every screen is a tab inside it. No banners, no countdown timers, no nags on
other people’s screens, no onboarding wizard, and nothing installed or suggested that you did
not ask for.

There is no activation step and no consent screen in your way. Licensing is handled by the
Freemius SDK, which starts switched off: nothing is registered and nothing is transmitted
unless you go and opt in, and everything works whether you ever do or not. The one thing not
in our hands is that opening the upgrade page adds a Freemius “Upgrade” item under the menu
while you are on it.