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Every WordPress site I have worked on in the last decade shares the same accessibility gap, and it is rarely the one people expect. The people involved care about accessibility. The problem is where their tool lives: a separate platform, another login, disconnected from the place where the work actually happens.

Accessibility gets made and unmade inside your everyday content workflow. It happens in the block editor when you choose a heading, in a media upload when you write or skip alt text, in the theme change you shipped last week, in the plugin you added yesterday. It sits right next to content and SEO as part of the on-page work you already do in WordPress. If your site runs on WordPress, your accessibility testing should run there too.

Your Site Changes Every Week. Your Testing Should Keep Up.

A WordPress site is never finished. Editors publish pages, someone updates a plugin, a theme tweak changes how a template renders. Any of these routine actions can introduce a barrier that was not there the day before. A page that scored perfectly last month can break the moment someone drops a background image behind white text.

Here are the kinds of

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