Accessibility monitoring — catch the barrier an update adds, before a customer runs into it.
Relvato opens your home, shop, product, cart, checkout and account pages in a real browser and tests them against the WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 Level A and AA rules in axe-core, the open-source engine many accessibility tools are built on. The first scan lists what it finds, and you approve that as the baseline. After that, an issue that wasn't there before fails the run — so a plugin update that drops a form label on checkout is caught the week it happens, not at next year's audit.
- ✓Images and image links with no text alternative (WCAG 1.1.1)
- ✓Form fields with no label, and buttons or links with no accessible name (1.3.1, 2.4.4, 4.1.2)
- ✓Text below the minimum contrast ratio — 4.5:1, or 3:1 for large text (1.4.3)
- ✓A missing or invalid page language, and pages with no title (3.1.1, 2.4.2)
- ✓Zoom disabled on phones, and touch targets that are too small or too close together (1.4.4, 2.5.8)
- ✓ARIA attributes and roles that are invalid or used where they don't belong (4.1.2)
Accessibility isn't fixed once. Themes, page builders and plugins rewrite markup with every update: a checkout field loses its label, a button becomes an icon with no name, a new brand colour drops below the contrast minimum. Since 28 June 2025 the European Accessibility Act has applied to online shops and other consumer services in the EU, so a regression is no longer only a usability problem. An audit tells you where you stand on the day; monitoring tells you when that changes.
Test a page for WCAG issues now — free
Enter a page: Relvato runs axe-core's WCAG A and AA rules on it and lists what it finds. Relvato accessibility checker →
What the European Accessibility Act asks of a website, what to fix first, and which parts automated testing can and can't cover.
- Relvato loads your key pages — the ones a customer needs to buy or sign in, plus any you add, like a contact form — in a real browser, lets them settle, and runs axe-core's WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 Level A and AA rules. The engine is injected through the browser itself, so a strict Content-Security-Policy doesn't block it.
- Each issue is one rule on one page — “Form elements must have labels” on /checkout/, say — with the WCAG criteria it maps to, how many elements are affected and an example. Once you approve the first scan's issues they become the baseline; fixing them is still worth it, because each one is a barrier for someone.
- From then on it runs weekly and after plugin, theme, WordPress core and WooCommerce updates. A new issue fails the run and alerts you with the rule, the page and the WCAG criterion; issues already in the baseline are listed but don't fail it.
Data sourceaxe-core (Deque, open source), WCAG 2.2 (W3C)
Does this make my site compliant with the European Accessibility Act?
No — and no automated tool can. The W3C says evaluation tools can't determine on their own whether a site is accessible, and Deque's study of real audits found automated testing identified about 57% of issues by volume. Whether alt text describes the image, whether the keyboard order makes sense, whether an error message helps: that needs a person. What Relvato does is keep the part a machine can test from getting worse after you've fixed it.
Which standard does it test against?
WCAG 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 at Level A and AA, using axe-core's rules. In the EU, websites are generally measured against EN 301 549: version 3.2.1 follows WCAG 2.1 Level AA, and version 4.1.1, updated in September 2026, moves to WCAG 2.2 AA. Testing against 2.2 covers both.
My site already has accessibility issues. Will every run fail?
No. The first scan lists everything it finds and doesn't fail; you approve that list as the baseline. Later runs fail only on an issue that isn't in it, and the issues you've fixed drop off the list.
Does it need the WordPress plugin?
No. It tests the public pages of any website. With the WordPress plugin connected it also runs after plugin, theme, core and WooCommerce updates, which is when most regressions arrive. On the Free plan you run it yourself or weekly; Pro also re-runs it after updates.
Put this monitor on autopilot.
Free forever on one site — 100 runs a month, started by you or weekly, no card. Pro re-runs your monitors by itself after every update.