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title: Accessibility
description: "## What it does Accessibility means making your website usable by everyone, including people who are blind, have low vision, cannot use a mouse or have other disabilities. VuloPilot scans your pages against the international standard for this (called **WCAG**)…"
url: "https://vulopilot.com/docs/accessibility/"
updated: "2026-10-06"
category: Accessibility
---

# Accessibility

## What it does

Accessibility means making your website usable by everyone, including people who are blind, have low vision, cannot use a mouse or have other disabilities. VuloPilot scans your pages against the international standard for this (called **WCAG**) and lists what to fix.

## Why it matters

- **More people can use your site.** Roughly one in six people lives with a disability.
- **It helps your search ranking.** Clear headings, image descriptions and readable text also help search engines.
- **It reduces legal risk.** Many countries expect websites to be accessible.
- **It is better for everyone.** Clear, well-labelled pages are easier for all visitors.

New to VuloPilot? See [GETTING-STARTED](https://vulopilot.com/docs/getting-started-with-vulopilot/).

## How to use it

1. Open **VuloPilot → Accessibility**.
2. Click **Run Accessibility Audit**.
3. Look at your score: **Good**, **Needs Work** or **At Risk**.
4. Click **Review Important Issues** to see the most serious problems first.
5. Fix each one, then run the audit again. **Accessibility Score History** shows whether you are improving.

![](https://vulopilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Accessibility-1-1-1024x536.png)

## The problems it finds

| Group | What it means | Example fix |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Page Structure** | Headings are missing, repeated or in the wrong order | Use one main heading and put the rest in order |
| **Images & Media** | Pictures have no text description, so a screen reader cannot describe them | Add "alt text" to the image in the Media Library |
| **Links & Forms** | Form fields have no label, or links say things like "Click here" | Label every field; make link text describe where it goes |
| **Keyboard Use** | Buttons and menus that a keyboard user cannot reach or understand | Make sure everything works with the Tab key |
| **Visual Readability** | Text that is hard to see | Increase contrast or size |
| **All Checks** | Everything combined |  |

![](https://vulopilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Accessibility-2-1024x478.png)

## Some checks need a person

A tool cannot tell whether your page is truly pleasant to use. The **Manual testing recommended** panel lists three things to try yourself:

| Check | Try this |
| --- | --- |
| **Keyboard navigation** | Put the mouse aside. Can you reach and use everything with the keyboard? |
| **Screen-reader experience** | Does the content make sense when read aloud? |
| **Zoom & text resizing** | Make the text bigger. Does the page still work? |

Click **Open Manual Checklist** for step-by-step help.

![](https://vulopilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Accessibility-3-1024x368.png)

## Settings explained

Go to **Settings → Scanning → Accessibility**.

| Setting | What it does | Why you might use it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Accessibility checks** | Turns the accessibility scan on or off | Leave it on |
| **Scan frequency** | How often the scan runs by itself: **Off**, **Hourly**, **Daily** or **Weekly** | Weekly is enough for most sites; use daily if you publish often |
| **WCAG level** | How strict to be: **A** (basic), **AA** (the common target) or **AAA** (strictest) | Choose **AA** unless you have a specific requirement |
| **WCAG scanner** | Turns on additional standard-based checks | Gives a fuller picture |
| **Check for generic, out-of-context link text** | Reports links like "Click here" or "Read more" | Screen-reader users often hear links as a list, so each one must make sense alone |

## Related

- [SEO](https://vulopilot.com/docs/seo-search-engine-optimization/) - missing image descriptions also hurt image search
- [SETTINGS](https://vulopilot.com/docs/settings/)

## **Scheduled accessibility audits (Pro)**

Available with [VuloPilot Pro.](https://vulopilot.com/pricing/) The audit can run automatically, on a schedule you choose under ****Settings → Scanning → Accessibility****: hourly, daily, weekly, or off.

![](https://vulopilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Accessibility-Scan-frequency-1024x685.png)

It keeps a history, so you can see whether your accessibility score is going up or down over time, and a dashboard shows the open issues. It runs separately from the security and automation schedules, so it keeps working if they are off.