Will the WP ADA Compliance Plugin automatically correct all the issues on my website?
The WP ADA Compliance Plugin includes many time saving features but unfortunately it is not possible to correct every issue automatically. The content filter system corrects the following issues:
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- Notifies users when a link opens a new window
- Notifies users when a link opens PDF documents or other non HTML content
- Converts absolute font sizes in content to relative sizes (% or ems)
- Removes empty links from page content
- Removes empty heading tags from page content
- Removes empty tables from page content
- Removes links from images that are linked to themselves
- Removes redundant alt text from images
- Removes redundant title attributes from links
- Removes redundant title attributes from images
- Removes redundant aria-labels attributes from links
- Removes redundant aria-labels attributes from images
- Adds outline styles to all focusable elements restoring visible keyboard focus
- Adds role and tabindex attributes to elements with event handlers that are emulating links
- Adds aria-label attributes with post title to read more links in post archives
- Adds title attributes to iframe elements
- Removes phrases such as “image of” or “photo of” from image alt text
- Converts justified text to left or right aligned and removes option to justify text
- Adds missing language attributes to html tags
- Adds skip nav links to pages where they are missing
- Adds or corrects labeling of ARIA landmarks
- Removes auto play parameters from embedded video elements
- Converts non redundant title attributes to aria-label attributes on links
- Corrects accessibility issues with font awesome icons inside links
- Converts unlinked email addresses to mailto: links
- Adds “onkeypress” keyboard event handler to elements that include only mouse event handler such as onclick
- Removes inline styles that obscure or remove the outline from focusable elements
- Corrects radio groups and captcha fields in the Visual Form Builder plugin
- Corrects issues such as empty links and adjacent identical links created when using the Elementor icon
- Corrects issues such as empty links and adjacent identical links created when using the Elementor image box widgets
- Corrects accessibility issues created by the Elementor table of contents widget
- Corrects accessibility issues created by the Elementor toggle or accordion widgets
- Stops Autoplay on Elementor Image Carousel Widget
- Corrects accessibility issues created by theme or plugins modifying page anchor behavior such as those created by Elementor and OceanWP
- Adds aria-hidden=”true” to font awesome icons that do not include text, title or aria-labels
- Removes tabindex attributes that have been manually set
- Corrects dialog links without a notice that they will open a dialog
- Corrects alt text issues in spaces images inserted using the Advanced WP Columns Plugin
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Adds a pause button to flexslider slideshows
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Corrects focus issues on skip link target elements
View a complete list of time saving features.
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