Free ADA compliance checker
Paste a public URL and get an automated WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility check in about a minute, run with axe-core, the open-source scanner accessibility auditors use. Full findings on a shareable page. No email required, no account, nothing to install.
Automated scanning catches roughly 57% of WCAG issues. Use this as a baseline, not a verdict. The $499 audit tests the issue classes automation cannot assess.
What this checker tests
The scanner auditors run
axe-core, the open-source accessibility engine maintained by Deque Systems, widely used in professional audits and CI pipelines. This page runs the same checks an auditor would, not a proprietary score.
WCAG 2.2 AA, the current standard
Your page is tested against the automated subset of WCAG 2.2 level AA, the latest stable version of the guidelines that accessibility law keeps pointing at. Every finding is mapped to the success criterion it violates.
Findings you can hand to a developer
Each issue shows the exact HTML element, why it matters, and how to fix it at the source. The result page is a shareable link, so you can send it straight to whoever maintains your site.
The common findings on e-commerce sites are the ones lawsuits cite: images with no text alternative, links and buttons that read out as blank, form fields with no label, and text that fails colour contrast. The scan shows each one in your actual HTML.
Does the ADA apply to my website?
If your business is open to the public, the Department of Justice says yes. Its published guidance states that it “has consistently taken the position that the ADA’s requirements apply to all the goods, services, privileges, or activities offered by public accommodations, including those offered on the web” (opens in new tab). The same guidance notes businesses have flexibility in how they comply, and points to WCAG as a helpful technical standard.
For private businesses there is no formal technical regulation spelling out a required WCAG version. The clearest official signal is the DOJ’s 2024 rule for state and local government websites (opens in new tab), which adopted WCAG 2.1 AA as the required standard. In practice, demand letters and complaints against merchants cite WCAG failures found by automated scanning, which is why running the same scan yourself is worth a minute. Our ADA lawsuit tracker counts the federal filings week by week, with every number linked to its public court-records query.
None of this is legal advice. If you have received a demand letter, talk to a lawyer; the scan tells you where your site stands either way.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there an official ADA compliance standard for business websites?
- Not as a formal technical regulation. The Department of Justice has consistently said the ADA applies to the websites of businesses open to the public, but for private businesses it has not adopted a specific technical standard. Its 2024 rule for state and local governments adopted WCAG 2.1 AA, which is the clearest official signal of where the bar sits. This checker tests WCAG 2.2 AA, the current stable version of the same guidelines.
- Can a checker make my website ADA compliant?
- No, and be wary of any tool that claims it can. Automated scanning catches roughly 57% of WCAG issues. The rest, like keyboard traps, screen reader flow, and alt-text quality, need a human test. A clean scan is a useful baseline, not a compliance verdict.
- I have an accessibility overlay or widget. Am I covered?
- Installing a widget does not make the underlying HTML accessible, and sites with overlays installed continue to be sued. Run the scan with the overlay in place and see what it still finds. The issues live in your page source, and that is where fixes have to happen. We wrote up the widget lawsuit numbers here.
- What happens to my scan data?
- The scan runs against the public URL you enter and produces a shareable result page. No email or signup is required to see the full findings, and we do not share scan report data with third parties.
- Is this legal advice?
- No. This page and the scan results are technical information about your website's accessibility, not legal advice. If you have received a demand letter or a lawsuit, speak to a lawyer. The scan is useful evidence of where you stand, either way.
When the scan isn’t enough
The scan is the automated baseline. The $499 audit is a human testing your purchase path with a keyboard and a screen reader, delivered as a prioritised remediation report your developer can work through.