Faro Accessibility: your site reviewed, with a report that says what to fix first

What it does, in one sentence

It analyses each page in your browser with axe-core, stores the result in your database and turns it into a report you can hand out: what is failing, what is urgent and whose job it is.

• Scans from the site itself: open a page with the admin bar and press “Scan accessibility”. The analysis runs in your browser and the result is stored in your WordPress.
• A report sorted by severity: critical, serious, moderate and minor, with the number of affected elements and the pages they appear on. The things that break the site for screen reader users come first.
• A fix guide for every issue: what it means, how to fix it, the exact selector and the link to open the page in the editor. 22 rules with their own explanation, and axe’s text for the rest.
• States that remember: every issue can be marked as open, fixed or ignored with a reason. On the next scan the plugin knows what is new, what has been closed and what has come back.
• A 16-point manual checklist per page, for what no scanner can check: tab order, whether the alt text makes sense, form error messages.
• An accessibility statement built from the real state of the site: scope, known issues, contact and complaint route. It only says “fully conformant” when it really is.
• A whole-site review: goes through the registered pages one after another, with a stop button, and emails you about pages that have gone too long without a review.
• CSV export with every open issue, ready to share the work or hand to an external auditor.

What is inside

Its own menu in the WordPress dashboard, with five screens and nothing else: just enough to know how the site is doing and what is left to do.

The dashboard

• The estimated health of the site as a number, and below it how many issues of each severity there are.
• The table of scanned pages, with their last scan and their open issues.
• An honest reminder of what a machine can check and what needs human review. It does not promise more than it does.

The page report

• Issues grouped by rule, with their severity, how often they appear and on which pages.
• For each one: how to fix it, the selector and the button to open it in the WordPress editor.
• The scan history, with the health of each scan, so you can see whether the site is improving.
• The CSV export and the decision (open, fixed or ignored) on the same screen.

The accessibility statement

• A public document with the conformance status, the scope, the reviewed pages and their date.
• Known issues, improvement measures, contact and complaint route.
• It is stored inside WordPress, so you can link to it from any page or publish it as it is.

The settings

• The best-practices switch (heading order, regions, duplicate ids).
• The stale-page notice: 0, 7, 14 or 30 days.
• And the full cleanup: on uninstall, tables and settings go if you ask.

What it looks like

Screenshots of the plugin running on a real WordPress, with data from a real site. The dashboard is in Spanish because that is the language of the test administrator; the English version is the same screen translated.

Download

Faro Accessibility 0.8.1, in a zip you upload to WordPress as it is (Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin).

Download Faro Accessibility 0.8.1 See the SHA-256 hash The other plugins

Package hash (SHA-256): 52556a34d6426cc04edfcb630a4612fcb8e3732db5cdf2b33956479dd53b79b6

Requirements

• WordPress 6.4 or later.
• PHP 7.4 or later.
• A modern browser to scan: the analysis runs in the browser of whoever presses the button.
• Licence: GPL v2 or later. Free, with no hidden paid version and no account to create.
• Languages: written in English (its native language) and translated into Spanish. A Spanish WordPress shows it in Spanish; an English one shows it in English.