If your digital services aren’t accessible to everyone, you’re effectively shutting out up to 61 million people, or one in four U.S. adults living with a disability.
Not only do accessibility errors on your website result in barriers for website users they can result in lawsuits and impact the reputation of your business.
Correcting existing errors on your website is only the first step. Once your website has been made ADA compliant we realize the importance of maintaining compliance. Therefore we have built in a feature to block users from publishing content that includes accessibility errors. To use this feature:
- Go to Web Accessibility > Settings and click on the “Scan & Notification” tab
- Enable the second item ” Block users from publishing content when accessibility issues exist. “
- Ensure that the setting just above it “Enable this option to scan content from the editor screen.” is set to either “Enable deep scan on editor screen” or “Disable deep scan on editor screen”.
- Ensure that WordPress revisions are enabled on your website.
After a user clicks the publish, save or update buttons the post/page will be scanned for errors. If errors exist in newely published content the page will be set to “draft” status if the page has already been published the content will be rolled back to the previous successful save and an error message will be displayed. In Elementor or the Block editor the user’s changes are still visible in the editor and users can make any necessary corrections. In the Classic editor users will need to click the “Apply Last AutoSave Content” button which will restore the last auto save that was completed before the update button was clicked.
Note: This feature has been designed to work with the Block Editor, the Classic Editor and Elementor.
