Elementor Accessibility Checker

Accessibility on Elementor

Elementor is a visual page builder for WordPress. You assemble pages from widgets, such as Heading, Image, Button, Icon Box, Tabs, Accordion, Form and Slides, and style them with global colors and fonts. The Theme Builder and Popup Builder extend the same approach to headers, footers and overlays.

Because Elementor writes the markup for you, accessibility comes down to the choices you make in each widget: which heading tag, whether the image has alt text, whether a form shows its labels. Two pages built from the same widgets can differ completely, and that is why the live page needs to be tested.

WebAIM’s annual analysis of the top one million home pages finds detectable WCAG failures on the vast majority of them. Visual builders make it easy to publish quickly, which is also why the same few failures, such as missing alt text and low contrast, repeat from page to page. (opens in a new tab, source: WebAIM Million)

Common Accessibility Issues on Elementor Sites

• Heading tags chosen for size

  The Heading widget lets you pick the HTML tag, but many pages choose it for how big the text looks. The result is several h1s, skipped levels or headings used as decoration.

• Forms with hidden labels

  Form widgets can hide field labels and rely on placeholder text, which disappears once someone starts typing and is not a reliable name for assistive technology.

• Icon-only buttons and links

  Icon widgets, icon boxes and social buttons often link somewhere without any text, so a screen reader announces only "link".

• Popups, carousels and entrance animations

  Popups can open without moving focus, sliders autoplay with no pause control, and entrance and motion effects ignore the visitor’s reduced-motion setting.

• Global colors and sticky headers

  A global color palette that fails contrast fails everywhere at once, and sticky or transparent headers can cover the element that has keyboard focus.

How AccessBell Scans Your Elementor Site

1. Enter any public page. Paste the address of a page on your Elementor site into the scanner above. There is nothing to install: no plugin, no code snippet and no login.
2. We load it in a real browser. AccessBell opens the page in headless Chrome and runs its scripts, so it tests what your visitors actually see, including content added by your theme, apps or plugins.
3. We run the WCAG rules. The open-source axe-core engine checks the page against the standard you choose, and every result is mapped to the WCAG success criteria it affects.
4. You see what is wrong in seconds. The free scan lists every issue it finds, ranked by severity, with the WCAG criteria each one fails. Start a free trial to get the failing code and the fix for each one. Our methodology explains exactly what runs and what still needs a person.

What You Get From the Free Scan and the Free Trial

Free, with no account

• 63 automated rules for WCAG 2.2 Level AA, or presets for WCAG 2.1 AA, the ADA, Section 508 and EN 301 549
• Every issue found on the page, ranked by severity from critical to minor
• The WCAG success criteria each issue fails, which you can look up in our WCAG library

With a 3-day free trial

• The failing HTML, so you can find the element in your Elementor editor or code
• How to fix each issue, with a corrected example
• Every page scanned, up to 500 per domain, with daily monitoring and an email when something breaks
• A list of checks that need a person to review, so nothing is missed
• A dated record of your scans and fixes

Start 3-day free trial

How to Fix What the Scan Finds

1. Set heading tags by outline, not size: one h1 per page, then h2 and h3 in order, and use the widget’s typography settings to change how big they look.
2. Turn on field labels in form widgets, and give every icon-only widget a text alternative.
3. Fix contrast in your global colors once, and rescan, because every page that uses them is corrected at the same time.
4. Run a free scan above on your homepage and a few key pages, fix issues starting with critical and serious, then rescan to confirm.
5. For ongoing protection, AccessBell Pro monitors up to 500 URLs per domain every day and alerts you when a theme, app or plugin update introduces a new issue.

Related Guides

• WCAG 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence Explained in Plain EnglishWCAG 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence explained simply: why reading order matters, how CSS and layout tables break it, how to fix it and how to test your pages.
• WCAG 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions Explained in Plain EnglishWCAG 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions explained simply: visible labels, format hints, grouped fields and required markers, with code examples and a test routine.
• WCAG 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide Explained in Plain EnglishWCAG 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide explained simply: what moving and auto-updating content needs, the 5-second rule, carousel fixes and how to test your pages.
• WCAG Success Criteria LibraryLook up any success criterion the scan flags, in plain language.
• Elementor ADA Compliance CheckerThe same scan with the ADA preset, plus the ADA risks specific to Elementor sites.
• Free Accessibility Statement GeneratorPublish a statement once your Elementor site's known issues are fixed.

Elementor Accessibility — Frequently Asked Questions