WordPress Accessibility Remediation
Running an accessibility scanner is easy. Actually fixing what it finds can be much harder.
A WordPress accessibility problem might originate in the theme, a plugin, a page-builder widget, a template override, custom CSS, JavaScript behavior, or the content itself.
That is why MakeWPCompliant is built as a remediation service, not just an auditing service. Anyone can hand you a list. The value is in knowing which of those findings share a single cause, and being able to go and change it.
We work on the underlying site
Depending on the cause, remediation can include:
- Modifying a child theme
- Correcting template markup
- Overriding plugin templates
- Changing page-builder configuration
- Writing targeted CSS
- Correcting JavaScript interactions
- Fixing forms and validation behavior
- Improving keyboard access
- Correcting focus behavior
- Adding or repairing accessible names
- Fixing heading and content structure
- Correcting color contrast
- Improving alternative text and image usage
- Correcting WooCommerce templates and interactions
There is no single WordPress accessibility fix, because there is no single source of WordPress accessibility problems.
One theme defect can appear on every page you have
Themes control much of the structure shared across a site. A single theme-level problem can therefore appear on hundreds or thousands of pages. Common examples include:
- Inaccessible navigation
- Missing or ineffective focus indicators
- Poor color contrast
- Incorrectly structured headers and landmarks
- Inaccessible mobile menus
- Icon-only controls without accessible names
- Template markup that repeats a failure everywhere
When a defect belongs to the theme, fixing it at the theme level is usually far more durable than patching individual pages — and it is the difference between a project that finishes and a project that never does.
Page builders
Page builders make WordPress flexible, but they also make it possible to create complicated interactive interfaces without ever directly seeing the markup being generated.
We can investigate accessibility issues created by page-builder layouts and widgets, including Elementor-based sites. Where possible we first look for a configuration or content-level solution. Where the builder itself creates the problem, remediation may require CSS, JavaScript, hooks, templates, or another targeted workaround.
More on Elementor accessibility remediation
Plugins
Plugins add everything from forms and calendars to ecommerce, popups, sliders, event registration, and member portals. When a plugin produces inaccessible output, the right solution depends on the plugin.
- Sometimes configuration is enough.
- Sometimes a WordPress hook or filter can correct the output.
- Sometimes a template can be overridden in a child theme.
- Sometimes targeted CSS or JavaScript is appropriate.
- And sometimes the correct recommendation is replacing the plugin.
Our job is to identify the source and choose a reasonable, maintainable fix — not to pick the one that is fastest to write.
Content
Not every accessibility issue is a development problem. Content authors can create problems through:
- Poor heading structure
- Unclear link text
- Incorrect alternative text
- Inaccessible tables
- Color-only communication
- Embedded media
- Inappropriate formatting
- Documents and PDFs
- Page-builder choices
When content is part of the issue, remediation should include both correcting the current content and identifying the practices that let the same problems back in next month.
The objective is not a prettier scanner score. It is to make the actual WordPress site more accessible to the people using it.
Specific platforms, specific problems
WooCommerce
Variations, AJAX cart updates, checkout validation, account screens — the states a static scan never reaches.
WooCommerce remediationElementor
Widget configuration, global styles, add-ons and generated markup, fixed as patterns rather than page by page.
Elementor remediationHow we test
Automated WCAG checks, keyboard traversal, interactive states, mobile, authenticated areas, human review.
Our testing approachOur process
Assess, attribute, remediate, retest, document — and optionally keep watching for regressions.
Step by stepOngoing monitoring
Accessibility regresses after plugin updates, theme updates and new content. Optional periodic retesting.
Regression testingAgency partnership
Keep your client. Bring in the accessibility specialist for the part that needs one.
For agenciesFix the site, not just the score
Find out what is actually causing accessibility problems in your WordPress website — and what real remediation would involve.