Make your WordPress site truly accessible. EAA & WCAG, without an overlay

The truth: WordPress is not accessible by default

A tidy WordPress block theme like Twenty Twenty-Four starts better than many sites, but rarely meets WCAG 2.2 AA on its own. The moment you build with Elementor, Divi or Gutenberg, let plugins inject markup or add images without alt text, barriers appear that your visitors, and the European Accessibility Act, won't accept.

What commonly goes wrong on WordPress

• Page builders create unreadable div soupElementor and Divi nest sections, columns and wrappers dozens of levels deep. That div soup carries no semantics, so a screen reader loses your page's logical structure and reads out only scattered fragments of text.
• Plugin markup without an accessible nameSliders, pop-ups and forms from plugins often inject buttons and fields with no label or aria-label. A screen-reader user then hears only 'button' and has no idea what the action does.
• Broken heading order from the builderPage builders often pick headings by size instead of meaning, so you jump from an h2 straight to an h4. Screen-reader users navigate by headings and lose the thread of your page.
• Media-library images without alt textImages from the media library often land in your theme with no alt text, or with the file name as alt, unreadable for screen readers and invisible to Google.

What a real fix looks like

Take an icon button from your Elementor or Gutenberg block. Without an accessible name, a screen-reader user only hears 'button'. The fix is one attribute, no rebuild:

<button class="elementor-button">
  <i class="icon-cart" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</button>

<button class="elementor-button"
  aria-label="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Bekijk winkelwagen', 'theme' ); ?>">
  <i class="icon-cart" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</button>

What you get

With a reporting tool you pay the licence and your developers to fix the issues. With Seviranta the fix is included, no double bill.

Protect your conversion and your legal standing

An app that slaps an accessibility icon over your WordPress site is a risk to your business. The facts:

My theme is accessibility-ready. Am I done?

No. The tag says the theme meets the review team's basic requirements; WordPress itself says it is not a WCAG AA statement. Your content, plugins and builder come on top, and that is where most findings sit.

I also sell or publish for Germany or France. What applies to my WordPress site there?

Germany: the BFSG has applied to B2C online stores since 28 June 2025, with an exemption for micro-enterprises (fewer than ten people and at most 2 million euros in turnover or balance sheet total); supervision by the Marktüberwachungsstelle der Länder (MLBF). France: since 28 June 2025 e-commerce falls under the EAA transposition in the Code de la consommation, with the same micro-enterprise exemption, supervised by the DGCCRF; the yardstick is the RGAA (WCAG 2.1 AA). In both countries the published page counts, not the fact that you use WordPress.

Can I apply the fix myself in the Site Editor, or do I need my developer?

Colours, headings, alt text, menu structure and many template parts you can change yourself in the editor or Site Editor. Markup from plugins or a builder often needs a developer: a template override in a child theme, a filter, or a plugin setting. Our report says per finding where it sits, so you know who can take it on.

Is a WordPress accessibility widget enough for the EAA?

No. A widget puts a layer over your site, but doesn't repair the underlying code and doesn't count as structural compliance.

Does my WordPress checkout fall under the EAA?

Yes. The checkout and navigation are explicitly part of the obligation under WCAG 2.1 AA.

Does Seviranta also scan my WordPress apps?

Yes. We test the final generated HTML, theme plus apps, the way a regulator does.

Will this slow my WordPress site down?

No. We scan externally from our EU servers; no script goes on your site. 0% impact on your load speed and Core Web Vitals.