Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – Audit Your Website for WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 Accessibility Errors

1.22.0

• Enhancement: Improve the new window warning migration to handle more edge cases.
• Fix: Avoid checking theme Tags when theme sandbox recovery is in play.
• Fix: When parsing block content for scanning avoid stomping on post_content of a global.

1.21.0

• Enhancement: Improve how density statistics are counted. You will see a notice about this change on the welcome page.
• Fix: Ensure that the scanned posts counts are accurate to all posts scanned, not just ones that have issues.
• Fix: Properly count posts that are scanned but have no issues to remediate.

1.20.0

• Enhancement: Process dynamic blocks and oEmbeds more reliably in scans.
• Enhancement: Improve detection for missing_transcripts if there are several oEmbed videos from same provider on page.
• Fix: Ensure notice dismiss function works correctly on all pages and that review notice buttons are styled.
• Fix: Correct some cases where pluralization of phrases could be misapplied.

1.19.0

• Enhancement: Improve the text_size_too_small check in scanner to avoid more false positives.
• Fix: Ensure that our notifications can appear on our own admin pages.
• Fix: No longer trigger password protected notice on other pages when scanning woocommerse checkout page.

1.18.0

• New: Add a new fix for adding a new tab/window warning to links with target=”_blank”.
• Enahncement: Allow cache bypass from stats requests to force latest numbers.
• Enhancement: Make a clear-issues endpoint more usable in different situations.
• Removed: Removed some code that was trying to force no notifications on the plugin pages.

1.17.0

• New: Add a new fix for adding a new tab/window warning to links with target=”_blank”.
• New: Add a REST endpoint to retrieve a site scan summary.
• Enhancement: Ensure frontend highlighter can load even when Cloudflare Rocket Loader is enabled.
• Enhancement: Only show ignore button when user can ignore issues.
• Fix: URLs without issues would always output 0 when viewed on welcome widget.

1.16.4

• Enhancement: Improve the table header detection and validation for row headers.
• Enhancement: Show notice on fixes settings when they are saved from options page.
• Fixed: Don’t check for possible headerif there is no text content.
• Fixed: Multisite query fix to make sure issues are assigned correct site id.
• Fixed: Correct where a scan link points.

1.16.3

• Enhancement: Add Fix settings to site health info panels.
• Fixed: Corrected a string that was misplaced in a fix.

1.16.2

• Enhancement: Use better names for fix modal titles.
• Enhancement: Improve the link_pdf rule to detect more accurately.
• Enhancement: Improve the link_ms_office_doc rule to detect more accurately.
• Fixed: Rely on labels for link_ambiguous_text rule first before checking just the text content.
• Fixed: Remove a duplicatable rule empty_form_label.

1.16.1

• Fixed: Remove redundant empty_form_label rule definition.

1.16.0

• New: Introduced a system to handle automated fixes for issues that the scanner would discover.
• New: Fix to remove or update bad tabindex values on elements.
• New: Fix to remove title attributes in favor of preferred accessible names to elements.
• New: Fix to add missing lang and dir attributes to the element.
• New: Fix to add skip links to pages where they are missing.
• New: Fix to add labels to comment and search forms.
• New: Fix to ensure that the meta viewport tag does not prevent user scaling or zooming.
• New: Fix to ensure that focus outlines are present on focusable elements.
• Enhancement: Improve the tabindex_modified check to handle every element with tabindex.
• Enhancement: Improve the link_blank rule to check on fully rendered pages.
• Enhancement: Improve the link_ambiguous_text rule to check on fully rendered pages.
• Enhancement: Improve the broken_skip_anchor_link rule to check on fully rendered pages.
• Enhancement: Improve the html lang and dir attribute check to on check fully rendered pages.
• Enhancement: Improve the document title check to check on fully rendered pages.
• Enhancement: Add a clear button to the editor to allow for .
• Enhancement: Improved GTM iframe detection.
• Fixed: Avoid showing 100% passed results when scans are not complete.
• Fixed: Improve or add better aria-labels in several places.
• Fixed: Don’t flag empty paragraphs if they have aria-hidden.

1.15.3

• Enhancement: Detect missing labels on more elements.
• Enhancement: Detect slick slider that gets initialized after the page loads.

1.15.2

• Fixed: Issue where CPT results would not be reflected in dashboard widgets and reports

1.15.1

• Fixed: Issue where a modal could result in JS error preventing display
• Fixed: Situations where Gutenberg created new posts may not trigger the JS scan when publishing

1.15.0

• Added: WP-CLI commands to get stats and delete stats
• Enhancement: Image inputs with alt text shouldn’t flag for missing_form_label
• Fixed: Don’t flag .avif as missing transcript or video present
• Fixed: Purge the post data if the saved post is in or is moving to the trash
• Fixed: Handle stacking contexts for callout button in admin correctly
• Fixed: PHP 8.4 deprecation notice fix for implicitly nullable Meta_Boxes

Older versions can be found in the plugins changelog.txt.