Every check

The plugin runs 41 checks: 36 on the server and 5 in the browser, on the rendered page. This table is generated from the plugin’s own rule registry, so it is the real list rather than a description of it.

The same information is in the plugin, from the coverage panel linked on the dashboard and at the foot of every findings list.

Reading the table

Severity is how much damage the fault does: Critical, Serious, Moderate, Minor.

Settled by is the honest column. Machine means a check can decide on its own and the finding is a real fault. Person means the check can spot the situation but cannot judge it, so the finding is raised for review rather than reported as a barrier. 30 of the 41 can be settled automatically; the rest need somebody to look.

Pass is where the check runs. Browser checks only happen once a page has been opened in the inspector, so a page that has only had the server pass has only had 36 of the 41 run against it.

The checks

By success criterion

What is not here

This list is what the plugin checks, not what WCAG contains. A great deal of WCAG cannot be checked by software at all: whether a heading describes the section beneath it, whether focus order makes sense, whether your alt text is accurate, whether an error message helps.

A clean report means these 41 checks found nothing. It does not mean your site is accessible. See What it cannot do.

Changing the set

wsak_rules filters the server pass, wsak_browser_rules filters the browser pass. The browser pass additionally drops any finding naming a check outside its published list, so it cannot report checks that were never documented here.