Every scan checks WCAG 2.0 / 2.1 / 2.2. Choose Level A, AA (the legal default), or AAA. Dedicated legal checklists appear only for the selected market: ADA Title III and Section 508 for the US, EAA / EN 301 549 for EU countries, AODA and ACA for Canada, BITV/BGG for Germany, RGAA for France, and DDA for Australia. Germany and France show their national checklist plus EAA.

Accessibility obligations differ by market. Selecting a country sets the legal context (ADA in the US, EAA/EN 301 549 in the EU, AODA in Ontario, ACA for federally regulated Canadian entities, BITV/BGG in Germany, RGAA in France, DDA in Australia) and the at-risk threshold shown in your score summary. US scans do not show foreign law tabs. EU scans open the EAA checklist.

Yes. Pass the page and market in the URL. url or website fills the field and starts the audit automatically. country sets the legal market (US, IN, GB, EU, and other ISO codes). Optional level is A, AA, or AAA. Example: /tools/accessibility-checker/?url=https://example.com&country=IN.

Yes. You can scan any publicly reachable page without creating an account. Name and email are only requested if you download the HTML report or ask Infyways to help fix issues. Report downloads also require a one-time email code so we know the inbox is real.

Level A covers the most basic barriers. WCAG AA is the level most laws map to, including ADA Title III, Section 508 refresh, EAA/EN 301 549, AODA, ACA, BITV, RGAA, and Australia’s DDA guidance. AAA is a stricter optional set (for example contrast 7:1 and more demanding reading-level rules). This checker defaults to AA. Use A for a first-pass baseline, or AAA when you need extra coverage. AAA is not required for most legal compliance.

Each run audits one public URL. Start with the homepage, then scan key templates such as product, checkout, login, and article pages. After the site-level scan, use focused tools like the Form Accessibility Checker or PDF Accessibility Checker for deeper coverage.

Most public pages return a score in under a minute. We load the live page in a real browser and classify Critical, Review, and Passed findings. Very large pages, slow hosts, or bot-blocked sites can take longer or fail to load.

The free checker only reaches publicly available pages. Login-gated or bot-blocked URLs may fail to load. For those, run the same page on a staging environment or temporarily allow our scanner, then compare results.

Automated audits catch a large share of common WCAG failures with high consistency: contrast, missing names, ARIA misuse, form labels, headings, and keyboard-related markup. Some criteria still need human judgment, such as whether alt text is meaningful, cognitive load, or complex widget behavior. Use the report as a remediation roadmap, then complete a manual audit before claiming full legal conformance.

Yes. When you select an EU country, the scan uses WCAG via EN 301 549 and opens a dedicated EAA / EN 301 549 checklist tab covering contrast, keyboard, forms, captions, and the accessibility statement. The EAA is a private-sector law covering products and services such as e-commerce, banking, and electronic communications. Germany and France still also show BITV/BGG or RGAA, which are the national instruments teams often remediate against alongside the EAA.

ADA Title III is a civil rights law for public accommodations, including most commercial websites, and is commonly mapped to WCAG 2.1 AA. Section 508 is a federal ICT law for agencies, contractors, and federally funded programs. The 2017 refresh uses WCAG 2.0 AA and also covers PDFs, email, apps, and other electronic communications. US scans in this tool show both checklists.

BITV 2.0 is Germany’s Federal Ordinance on Barrier-Free Information Technology. Together with the BGG (Disability Equality Act), it mainly covers public bodies, federal agencies, and affiliated vendors. The technical bar is WCAG 2.0 AA plus EN 301 549, and sites must publish an accessibility statement. The EAA is an EU-wide private-sector law (transposed in Germany as BFSG) covering products and services such as e-commerce and banking.

RGAA (Référentiel Général d’Amélioration de l’Accessibilité) is France’s official digital accessibility standard under Law n° 2005-102. It applies to public-sector organisations, public-interest missions, and private entities with more than €250 million average annual turnover. The technical bar is WCAG 2.1 AA via EN 301 549. Unlike WCAG alone, RGAA also requires a déclaration d’accessibilité, unit tests, a declared conformance rate, and annual monitoring. Non-compliance can mean fines, public listing, lost public contracts, and complaints to the Défenseur des droits.

AODA is the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. It applies to every Ontario organisation with one or more employees. The Information and Communications standard targets WCAG 2.2 AA for websites. Organisations with 20+ employees and all public-sector bodies must file a compliance report by December 31, 2026. Organisations with 50+ employees also need a written multi-year accessibility plan. There is no small-business exemption from the standards themselves—only from some reporting. The Accessible Canada Act covers federally regulated entities separately. Corporations can face fines up to $100,000 per day.

ACA is federal, not provincial. It applies to federal departments and agencies, federally regulated industries (banking, telecommunications, interprovincial transportation), and Crown corporations. It was established 11 July 2019 under ESDC and is enforced by the Accessibility Commissioner with advice from CASDO/ASDO (majority people with disabilities). The technical bar is WCAG AA, plus a public accessibility plan, progress reports, and a barrier-feedback process. Older summaries said ACA would cover all private SMBs by the end of 2021; that did not happen. Most local SMBs are under provincial laws such as AODA in Ontario, not ACA automatically. An Ontario bank can be under both.

The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 protects people with disabilities across work, education, and goods and services. Division 2 covers websites as goods, services, and facilities. Any public-facing Australian site — including banking, e-commerce, education, tourism, and government — is expected to meet WCAG 2.2 AA (National Transition Strategy). ICT products also follow AS EN 301 549:2020. Commonwealth services must meet the Digital Service Standard. Complaints go to the Australian Human Rights Commission and can escalate to the Federal Court. Maguire v SOCOG (1999) is the landmark web accessibility case.

The score starts at 100 and subtracts weighted penalties for each axe violation based on impact (critical, serious, moderate, minor) and how many elements are affected. A score below the country threshold (usually 90) is flagged as at risk. Passed checks do not raise the score above 100.

The HTML report includes your score, country and law context, category breakdown, the legal checklists that apply to the selected market (for example ADA and Section 508 for the US), Critical issues, Review items, Passed checks, selectors, snippets, WCAG criteria, and fix guidance. Name and email are required, then we send a one-time code to that inbox before the report can be downloaded.

We fetch the page only to run the live audit and return results to your browser. We do not keep a permanent copy of your page content for the free checker workflow. If you download a report or request fix help, we store the contact details and scan summary you submit so sales can follow up.