Barrierepruefung.de – Web Accessibility Checker
The plugin connects your WordPress installation to an auditing service for digital accessibility. From the admin area you can start a scan, review the open findings together with a note on how to fix them, and output the text of your accessibility statement on a page via shortcode or block. Under To
The plugin connects your WordPress installation to an auditing service for digital accessibility. From the admin area you can start a scan, review the open findings together with a note on how to fix them, and output the text of your accessibility statement on a page via shortcode or block.
Under Tools → Accessibility the findings of the last scan are laid out as a work list: for each rule the severity, the success criterion, the number of occurrences, what needs to be done and which pages are affected. Expand a rule to see its individual occurrences — page, selector, the measured values and the HTML snippet — so you can find the spot in WordPress. Below that, the page quota of the current billing period. You fix things in WordPress; then you start the next scan from the same place.
Screenshots of the occurrences stay on the service’s website and are reachable from the link to the full report.
Under Tools → Accessibility → Accessibility statement you can go the whole way to a published statement without leaving WordPress: answer the manual checks, say who is making the statement, answer the applicability check, fill in the mandatory details, review the draft and publish it. The steps, the questions and the legal texts come from the service, so they are always current. Every version you publish is recorded with the name of the person who released it. Afterwards the plugin finds the page that embeds the statement, or creates one as a draft.
Publishing from WordPress requires a token that an administrator in the service has explicitly allowed to publish.
The statement is embedded server-side — so it is fully present without JavaScript and for assistive technologies.
What the plugin does not do
It does not change your site and does not repair anything automatically. So-called accessibility overlays do not remove barriers, regularly make things worse for people using assistive technologies, and are not proof of conformance.
External services
This plugin calls an external service whose address you enter yourself during setup (default: barrierepruefung.de).
What is transmitted:
- the address of this site,
- the API token you created,
- the ID of your site within the service,
- when you answer manual checks, the applicability check or the mandatory details, or publish the statement: your answers and details, and the display name of the WordPress user who does it. The service records that name as evidence of who released a version.
