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WP Accessibility
A useful accessibility jumpstart that is not a magic compliance wand.
HealthyGrowing
90/100
The plugin offers useful accessibility features but cannot guarantee full compliance.
Active installs
~65,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 60k+
Rating
4.8★
68 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+50%
Growing fast
220 → 329 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +50% in the last year
220/day a year ago→329/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Accessibility is well-regarded as a practical, free tool for improving WordPress site accessibility, though it is openly acknowledged — even by fans — as a partial solution rather than a complete fix, and at least one user found a key advertised feature (forcing alt text on images) to be ineffective.
What people like
- +Provides useful out-of-the-box accessibility features such as skip links, removal of target attributes, and an accessibility toolbar with high-contrast and large-text modes×4
- +Free to use, which users find especially valuable×3
- +Works quietly in the background without interfering with the site×2
- +Responsive and helpful developer support×3
- +Actively developed and maintained, considered trustworthy×2
- +Easy to configure, with features that can be toggled on or off×2
Common complaints
- −Does not make a site fully accessible on its own; multiple reviewers note it is a starting point, not a complete solution×4
- −The advertised feature to force authors to add alt text to images does not enforce validation — it is only a suggestion and can be bypassed entirely
- −Limited options for intermediate or advanced users who have already begun addressing accessibility×2
- −Some options (e.g. black-and-white mode) are restricted to administrators only, which one user found unexplained and limiting
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.77★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 6%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 25% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-02-152025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 68 total
Latest reviews · 68 analyzed
- 2025-11-26★★★★★Nice PluginJan
- 2025-09-19★★★★★title from links removed with elementorFonzieTheDog
- 2024-12-06★★★★★Very Useful Pluginmnst
- 2024-01-27★★★★★Easy to use and works wellsaardvark
- 2022-10-17★★★★★Generous and helpfulChristina Blust
- 2022-02-07★★★★★Active development and supportgeokongr
- 2022-01-16★★★★★Plugin eccellenteGiuseppe
- 2021-11-18★★★★★Great tooloninitiative
- 2021-02-20★★★★★Awesome pluginStar9
- 2021-02-19★★★★★Top Class!!Gaurav Tiwari
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
326
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
283
Prior 7-day baseline
199
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
988
Mean release-day peak (30d)
303
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+15.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
25%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.50
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
85%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.75 → 4.77★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered