OpenAisle – Accessibility & EAA Compliance Scanner for WooCommerce
OpenAisle is a WooCommerce accessibility scanner that checks your store for barriers under the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and WCAG 2.1 AA, with scans that run locally on your own server so no data leaves your store. It turns the results into a clear compliance score, a prioritised issue list,
OpenAisle is a WooCommerce accessibility scanner that checks your store for barriers under the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and WCAG 2.1 AA, with scans that run locally on your own server so no data leaves your store. It turns the results into a clear compliance score, a prioritised issue list, and a timestamped audit trail.
Scanning runs entirely on-site using a bundled copy of the open-source axe-core engine. Scans run in hidden, same-origin iframes of your own store pages; a small bundled scan agent runs axe-core in-page and reports the results back locally — no external content is loaded and nothing leaves your server.
Why WooCommerce accessibility matters
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) applies from 28 June 2025 and requires many businesses selling to EU consumers — including e-commerce — to make their digital services accessible, using EN 301 549 (which references WCAG 2.1 level AA). In the United States, the ADA has long been the basis for a large volume of website accessibility complaints against online retailers. Beyond the law, roughly one in four adults lives with a disability, so an inaccessible checkout is lost revenue.
OpenAisle helps you find and understand these barriers. It does not provide legal advice, and no tool can promise you will avoid a complaint — but a documented, improving accessibility program is a reasonable, good-faith response.
What it scans
- Your key WooCommerce flow pages — shop, a sample product, cart, checkout, and my-account.
- Real, rendered pages (including content added by JavaScript), so it catches issues a source-only checker misses, such as colour contrast and ARIA problems.
- Every finding is mapped to a plain-language explanation, a WCAG criterion, the WooCommerce flow it affects, and whether it is in EAA / EN 301 549 scope.
Free features
- On-server WooCommerce accessibility scan of your key store flows.
- Compliance score (0–100) and dashboard with a WooCommerce flow breakdown.
- Severity-grouped issue list with WCAG badges, an EAA-relevance filter, and free how-to-fix guidance.
- Catalog alt-text audit — see, across your whole product catalog, how many images are missing alt text.
