Description

Maras Tech Accessibility Auditor runs automated accessibility checks from your own WordPress admin. It uses a locally bundled axe-core engine and does not claim or certify WCAG conformance. Automated results are always shown separately from checks that require human review.

Features include:

Single-page checks at desktop, tablet, or mobile viewport sizes.
Intentional, browser-based Site scan queues for selected public WordPress content types. No scheduled scans run in the background.
Saved local reports, filtering, CSV and JSON export.
A site overview that groups recurring issues across the latest report for each URL and viewport.
An issue locator that highlights a reported element in a same-site preview.
Direct links to editable WordPress content and eligible Media Library images.

The plugin can detect many technical issues such as missing accessible names, invalid ARIA use, structural problems and some contrast or target-size concerns. It cannot reliably determine whether alternative text is meaningful, whether captions are accurate, whether keyboard flow is logical, or whether content is understandable in context. A clean automated report is not a WCAG conformance claim.

No visitor-facing code, dashboard widgets, admin notices, external scanning services, tracking, or remote analytics are added.

Support development

Maras Tech Accessibility Auditor is free to use. If it has been useful to you and you would like to support its continued maintenance, you can buy Maras Tech a coffee.

There is no obligation — the plugin will remain free and fully functional.

Privacy

Checks run in the administrator’s browser against pages from the same site. Results are stored only in this WordPress installation; no scan data is transmitted to a third party. The plugin stores report metadata, issue summaries and element selectors needed to locate findings. It does not store page HTML or form values.

You can delete one saved report or all saved reports from the Accessibility screen. Permanently deleting the plugin removes all data created by the plugin; see the FAQ for details.

Third-party software

This plugin bundles axe-core, distributed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. See the licenses directory for details.

Installation

Upload the maras-tech-accessibility-auditor folder to /wp-content/plugins/ or install the plugin through WordPress.
Activate it through the Plugins screen.
Open Accessibility in the WordPress admin menu and enter a page URL from your own site.
Use Site scan when you want to check selected public content types one page at a time.

FAQ

Does this plugin make my site WCAG compliant?: No. It helps identify automatically testable issues and presents a manual-review list. WCAG conformance requires human evaluation as well.
Does the plugin send page data to a third party?: No. The checking engine is bundled with the plugin. Checks run in the administrator’s browser against URLs on the same WordPress site, and reports are stored in that WordPress installation.
What happens when I uninstall the plugin?: Deactivation keeps saved reports. Permanently deleting the plugin removes its report table and database-version option. It never removes posts, pages, media, settings, or other WordPress data.
Why are some items marked “Needs manual review”?: Some accessibility questions need human judgement. For example, an image with an empty alt attribute may be decorative or may need meaningful alternative text.

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Contributors & Developers

“Maras Tech Accessibility Auditor” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

marastech

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Changelog

1.5.2

Made Site scan respect the active admin language on multilingual sites.
Improved same-site URL validation for multilingual single-page checks.
Show a clear error when a local report cannot be saved.

1.5.1

Added an optional donation link to support continued maintenance.

1.5.0

Renamed the plugin to Maras Tech Accessibility Auditor and requested a distinctive WordPress.org slug.

1.4.1

Aligned the plugin folder and text domain with the WordPress.org assigned slug.

1.4.0

Renamed the public plugin name and slug for WordPress.org submission.

1.3.6

Improved uninstall naming conventions.

1.3.5

Aligned plugin metadata with WordPress.org requirements.

1.3.4

Simplified report filtering and documented intentional custom-table access.

1.3.3

Prepared custom-table SQL with WordPress identifier placeholders.

1.3.2

Addressed Plugin Check code-quality findings.

1.3.1

Documented data handling and added a clean uninstall routine.

1.3.0

Added filtering for saved reports by URL, viewport and result status.
Added CSV and JSON export for the newest report per URL and viewport.
Added site-level issue overview and intentional Site scan queues.

1.0.0

Initial public release.