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Free ADA Website Accessibility Checker
Find out if your website is exposed to ADA lawsuits — for free.
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What the scan checks
Your site is tested against WCAG 2.1 AA, the standard courts reference in ADA web compliance cases. Here's what we check.
Page-level requirements
Page title, language declaration, skip-navigation link. Small things, but every automated audit checks for them and every lawsuit mentions them when they're missing.
Heading structure
Headings are how screen reader users navigate a page. Skipped levels, missing headings, or empty heading tags make the page feel like a book with no table of contents.
Color contrast
If text doesn't have enough contrast against its background, people with low vision can't read it. We test every text element against WCAG's minimum contrast ratios.
Keyboard navigation and focus
Not everyone uses a mouse. Everything on your site needs to be reachable and usable with a keyboard alone.
Image alt text
Images that convey meaning need text descriptions for screen readers. Decorative images can be marked as such. The problem is images that carry meaning but have no alt text at all.
Link and button labels
A link that says "click here" is useless to a screen reader cycling through links on a page. Same for buttons with no accessible name. We flag both.
Form labels and inputs
Screen readers need to know what each input field, dropdown, and button is for. Without programmatic labels, form elements are invisible to anyone using assistive technology.
ARIA and semantic HTML
ARIA attributes tell assistive technology what a page element does. But misused ARIA is worse than no ARIA. We check for both missing and incorrectly applied attributes.
What is WCAG 2.1 AA?
WCAG stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Published by the W3C, it's the technical standard that defines how websites should work for people with disabilities.
Version 2.1, AA level, is the one that matters. It's what courts cite in ADA cases and what the DOJ references in enforcement actions. It's also what the DOJ's rule for state and local government websites requires. That rule was originally set to take effect in April 2026, but the compliance dates moved back: April 26, 2027 for populations of 50,000 or more, and April 26, 2028 for smaller entities. It applies to government entities, not private businesses.
Every check in the scan above maps to a specific WCAG 2.1 AA success criterion. What the scan gives you is a floor, not a verdict. Failures it finds are really there. Failures it doesn't find may still be there. No automated tool can judge whether alt text is meaningful, whether focus order makes sense, or whether a keyboard user can get out of a modal. Those take a person.