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The cheapest accessible PDF is the one you do not publish. That sounds glib and it is the single most useful piece of advice in this category, because remediating a PDF properly is slow specialist work and republishing the same content as an HTML page is usually faster, cheaper, better for search, and accessible by…

Your theme supplies the focus indicators, heading hierarchy, navigation markup and colour relationships, which is most of what WCAG covers. A scanner reporting 400 issues is usually reporting one theme.

Media accessibility is the rare requirement where compliance and SEO point the same way, because a transcript is the only version of your video a crawler can read. And AI transcription now costs a fraction of human work.

Forms fail accessibility more reliably than anything else on a WordPress site, and it is the one component where failure stops someone completing a task. We compare 6 plugins on accessibility output rather than feature count.

The DOJ final rule requires state and local government sites to meet WCAG 2.2 AA, with entities serving 50,000 or more complying by 24 April 2026. Public sector accessibility differs in three ways that change what you should buy, and none of them is detection.

Automated scanning detects around 30% of WCAG issues, and every tool here competes over that same 30%. So the buying question is not which finds most, it is where in your workflow the checking happens. Most sites need two of the three.