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Accessibility, explained honestly

How to find and fix what's actually broken on your site. Sorted by platform and by WCAG issue, with real numbers behind it.

How to fix

• How to fix color contrast issues Low-contrast text is the most common accessibility failure on the web. It shows up on more than four in five h...
• How to fix missing image alt text Missing alternative text appears on more than half of all home pages. It is also one of the easiest issues to...

Platform

• Shopify accessibility checker Most Shopify themes ship with the same handful of accessibility problems. Paste your store URL below to see wh...
• WordPress accessibility checker WordPress accessibility depends on your theme, your blocks, and your plugins, not on WordPress itself. Scan yo...

Statistics

• Web accessibility statistics Almost every website fails basic accessibility checks. These are the current, sourced numbers, useful for repo...

WCAG explained

• WCAG 1.1.1: Non-text Content Success criterion 1.1.1 is the foundation of web accessibility: anything that isn't text needs a text alternat...