Teachable Accessibility Checker

Accessibility on Teachable

Teachable is a platform for selling online courses, coaching and digital downloads. A school has public pages, such as the home page, course sales pages and the checkout, and a student area with the course player, lessons, quizzes and certificates.

A scan can test the public pages, which is where a customer first meets your school. The lessons are a different job: video needs captions and transcripts, downloads need to be accessible documents, and quizzes need to work with a keyboard, none of which a page scan can judge for you.

The W3C explains how to make audio and video media accessible, including captions, transcripts and audio description. Online courses rely on video, so these requirements apply to most of what your students are paying for. (opens in a new tab, source: W3C WAI: Making audio and video media accessible)

Common Accessibility Issues on Teachable Sites

• Sales pages built with images of text

  Headlines, benefits and pricing set in graphics are invisible to screen readers and cannot be resized.

• Video lessons without captions or transcripts

  Lesson videos need accurate captions and ideally a transcript. Automatic captions are a start, but they must be reviewed.

• Downloads in inaccessible PDFs

  Workbooks, slides and templates exported as untagged or scanned PDFs cannot be read by screen readers. Test them with our free PDF accessibility checker.

• Low contrast and fine print

  Brand colors on buttons, light gray guarantees and small print often fail the contrast minimum.

• Enrollment and checkout forms

  Sign-up and payment forms with placeholder-only fields, unclear errors and countdown timers that rush the buyer.

How AccessBell Scans Your Teachable Site

1. Enter any public page. Paste the address of a page on your Teachable 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 Teachable 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

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How to Fix What the Scan Finds

1. Put your headlines and pricing in real text, and keep images for illustration with a description.
2. Review and correct captions on every lesson video before you publish, and offer a transcript alongside.
3. Export downloads from an accessible source with tags turned on, and run each one through a PDF check before you attach it.
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 1.2.9 Audio-only (Live) Explained in Plain EnglishWCAG 1.2.9 Audio-only (Live) explained simply: what counts as live audio, who it helps, how to add real-time captions or transcripts, and how to test it.
• WCAG 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) Explained in Plain EnglishWCAG 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) explained simply: the 4.5:1 and 3:1 ratios, what counts as large text, the exceptions, fixes and how to test your colors.
• 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 Success Criteria LibraryLook up any success criterion the scan flags, in plain language.
• Teachable ADA Compliance CheckerThe same scan with the ADA preset, plus the ADA risks specific to Teachable sites.
• Free Accessibility Statement GeneratorPublish a statement once your Teachable site's known issues are fixed.

Teachable Accessibility — Frequently Asked Questions