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ADA Website Accessibility Checker

Scan a page for the technical accessibility issues an ADA-related review starts with. Automated, free, and honest about what an automated check can and cannot tell you.

Real-browser testing. Full report, no signup, usually ready in a couple of minutes.

  • Images
  • Forms
  • Links and buttons
  • Headings and structure
  • Color contrast
  • ARIA
  • Keyboard access

Each page is rendered in a real browser and tested with axe-core against the machine-testable WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA success criteria. Automated testing does not replace a manual accessibility review.

The same checker, for people asking about the ADA

This page runs the free TagPipes Website Accessibility Checker: one page address, loaded in a real browser, tested with axe-core against the machine-testable WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA success criteria, reported in plain language. What is different here is the explanation around it, written for people asking about the ADA.

What an "ADA compliance checker" can actually be

The Americans with Disabilities Act is a civil rights law. It does not contain a technical checklist for websites. When courts, the US Department of Justice and settlement agreements talk about accessible websites, they have consistently pointed to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) as the technical reference. In 2024 the Department of Justice adopted WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the standard for state and local government websites under Title II. For private businesses, WCAG is the reference most accessibility work is measured against.

So a tool cannot check "ADA compliance". What it can do is test a page against the parts of WCAG that a machine can evaluate, and show you what it found. That is what this scan does: it loads the page in a real browser, runs automated checks against the WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA criteria that are machine-testable, and reports the accessibility issues detected in plain language, each with the criterion it relates to.

Not legal advice. Whether the ADA or any other law applies to your organization, and what it requires of your website, are questions for your counsel. This scan reports technical findings, observed on one page at one moment. Rawsoft's expertise is technology, not law.

What an automated ADA-related check can and cannot decide

Automated checks find the common technical barriers quickly and consistently. They cannot decide the legal question, and they cannot see everything.

Technical findings this scan reports

  • Images with no text alternative, and images whose alt text repeats nearby text
  • Form fields, buttons and links with no accessible name
  • Text that does not contrast enough with its background
  • Heading levels that skip, and headings that are empty
  • Missing page landmarks, such as a main region, and content outside any landmark
  • ARIA roles and attributes that are misused or incomplete
  • Scrolling regions and custom controls that keyboard users cannot reach
  • Duplicate ids, missing page language, and other structural errors that trip up assistive technology

What no automated tool can determine

  • Whether the ADA, Section 508, a state law or another regulation applies to you
  • Whether a page satisfies any of them
  • Whether alt text, link text and error messages are actually meaningful
  • Whether every task can be completed with a keyboard alone, from start to finish
  • Whether the reading order makes sense with a screen reader
  • Content in PDFs, videos and documents, and pages behind a login

Automated testing does not replace a manual accessibility review.

How to use this scan in an ADA-related review

The scan is the fast first pass. Here is where it fits.

1. Scan the pages that matter most

Home page, contact and appointment forms, checkout, account sign-in, and the pages people are sent to from ads and email. Barriers on those pages affect the most visitors and are the easiest to find from outside.

2. Fix critical and high findings first

The report orders findings by how much they affect visitors. Missing names on buttons and form fields, images with no alternative and unreachable controls are the ones that block people outright.

3. Re-scan, then go beyond automation

Confirm the fixes with another scan. Then have someone test the key tasks with a keyboard and a screen reader, because a clean automated scan is a starting point, not a verdict.

4. Talk to counsel about obligations

Which obligations apply to your organization, which standard version to target, and what an accessibility statement should say are legal decisions. Bring the technical findings to that conversation.

5. Keep it from drifting

Sites change. New pages, plugin updates and campaign landing pages reintroduce old problems. Scheduled re-checks tell you when something new appears, before a visitor has to tell you.

The issues automated checks find most often

Across the web, the same handful of problems account for most automated findings: low-contrast text, images without alternative text, form fields without labels, links whose text does not say where they go, and missing document language. None of them are exotic. Most are fixed in a template or a content setting rather than in code.

That is also why they are the findings most likely to be raised in a demand letter or complaint: they are visible from outside, with a tool, in minutes. Finding them yourself first is cheap.

Frequently asked questions

TagPipes monitors, configures and reports. It does not determine legal compliance and does not provide legal advice. Output is informational and reflects observed state at the time of observation. Rawsoft's expertise is technology, not law; please confirm any regulatory interpretation with your own counsel.

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