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Free Website Accessibility Checker
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What is a website accessibility checker?
A website accessibility checker tests a page’s code and content automatically and reports what fails. WCAG, the standard it tests against, sets out four principles: perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. Together they ask whether people can see and hear your content, move through it, make sense of it, and open it in the software they rely on. The free check above tests the parts of each that can be verified in code, against WCAG 2.2 Level AA.
Perceivable
Can people see and hear the content?
We check things such as text alternatives on images, contrast between text and what sits behind it, captions on video, and whether meaning is carried by colour alone. These are the failures we see most on most websites.
We check things such as text alternatives on images, contrast between text and what sits behind it, captions on video, and whether meaning is carried by colour alone. These are the failures we see most on most websites.
Operable
Can people use the controls?
We check whether everything can be done using a keyboard, whether it’s clear where the focus is, and that things like cookie banners don’t trap users' navigation.
We check whether everything can be done using a keyboard, whether it’s clear where the focus is, and that things like cookie banners don’t trap users' navigation.
Understandable
Is it clear what is happening?
We check whether the page declares its language, whether form fields have proper labels rather than placeholder text, and whether errors are announced instead of only shown visually.
We check whether the page declares its language, whether form fields have proper labels rather than placeholder text, and whether errors are announced instead of only shown visually.
Robust
Will assistive technology interpret the page correctly?
We check if the page’s code is structured in a way assistive technologies can understand, like whether ARIA has been used correctly.
We check if the page’s code is structured in a way assistive technologies can understand, like whether ARIA has been used correctly.
What does the free accessibility check cover?
The free check tests your homepage against WCAG 2.2 Level AA and emails you the result. You get a compliance status, and a count of every issue found, ranked by severity. The report then divides those issues in two ways.
By disability groups: visual, auditive, mobility, cognitive and neurodivergent impacts are counted separately, so the numbers describe people rather than just code. Then it shows which of the four WCAG principles is weakest, which is usually the fastest clue to the kind of fix you need. No account or cred card needed.
What to do with your results?
The result above is a starting point. Email yourself the full report to see the whole picture: how many issues you have, how serious they are, who they affect, and which of the four principles you need to address.
What you do next depends on which result you got:
Compliant. Congratulations. That's rare on a first scan. Run a full site scan to make sure it reflects the whole site, then turn on continuous monitoring, so a future change doesn't quietly break what you've built. Then use our advanced tools checks all your page for colour contrast, tabbing order and content across the entire site.
Partially compliant. You've got a mix of good and bad. Work through what's flagged using our additional features: Content and Media tools. After that, run the check again to confirm it's fixed. When it comes back compliant, you're ready for the full site.
Non-compliant. Start with your critical and high-severity issues. They cause the most harm, and often come from the same repeated component, so fixing one thing can solve several issues at once. Once those are fixed, run the check again, or let our team help you work through the remaining issues faster.
How Nexus Inclusion keeps your whole site accessible?
The platform tests your whole site against the same WCAG 2.2 Level AA standard as the free check, including the checkout, booking forms and account areas a homepage scan cannot reach.
Continuous monitoring re-tests as your site changes, with alerts when something breaks and compliance reporting you can share.
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Yes. No account, no card, no trial that expires. We ask for an email address if you want the full report sent to you, and you can see the headline result without giving us anything.
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Level AA, using WCAG 2.2. Level AA conformance includes every Level A criterion, so your report lists failures at both levels. AAA is not something an automated check can meaningfully assess.
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No. This tool analyses the compliance status of your homepage. Only a full website accessibility audit can determine whether your site is in accordance with global accessibility regulations.
To achieve full compliance and be digitally inclusive use our full suite of tools or we can help you with dedicated accessibility support.
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Because checking one page keeps the scan free and instant, while a whole-site scan takes more time and effort. Your homepage tells you the state of your shared components, which is the fastest useful signal we can give you in thirty seconds.
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No, and that is deliberate. Cookie banners and pop-ups sit on top of your page, and most are supplied by a third party rather than written by you. If we tested them, their problems would land in your results and bury the ones you can actually fix. We suppress them before the check runs, so what comes back is about your homepage.
Your banner still matters. It is the first thing many visitors meet, and it needs to work for someone using a keyboard. Tab into it and back out again. If you cannot escape it, that is a real barrier. Raise it with whoever supplies it, or ask us to take a look with you.
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It depends where you operate and what you do.
Global legislation exists and is or embeds WCAG the technical standard. Different versions are used in different areas, and Nexus Inclusion covers the global standards.
EU — the European Accessibility Act had to be in national law across all 27 member states by 28 June 2025.
UK — the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations cover the public sector; the Equality Act 2010 covers service providers more broadly.
US — the ADA applies to state and local government and to places of public accommodation; Section 508 applies to federal agencies and what they procure.
Canada — the Accessible Canada Act covers federally regulated organisations; Ontario's AODA covers the public sector and private organisations with 50 or more employees, with a deadline that passed on 1 January 2021.
Australia — the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 applies without naming a technical standard.
Our compliance guides cover each of these in detail.
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Automated checks quickly and reliably identify accessibility issues that can be detected in code, which is the starting point for digital accessibility. The Nexus Inclusion platform takes it from there: every page tested, tools to fix what comes back, monitoring to keep it fixed, and our own accessibility team on hand to make your site genuinely accessible and inclusive.
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The best solution should name the standard it tests against, is clear about how serious each problem is, guide you on how to fix them, and does not stop at a single page. This free check does the first two, on your homepage. Nexus Inclusion does all four across your whole site, then keeps testing as it changes, and all that on a single platform. Sign up to switch it on.
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