Guide

Accessonaut guide: check and improve your website

From your website address to a manageable work plan in a few steps.

Check without an account

Enter your website address in the free check. The check examines a single, publicly accessible page. You get real automated rule findings and SEO/GEO hints. Results stay available in your browser session for up to 24 hours.

Create a project

Create a free account, confirm your e-mail address and add your website under “Websites”. Enter a domain that you own or are allowed to check.

Scan and prioritise

In the scanner, choose your project, start page and page limit. The check loads the pages in a browser. Open a finding, check the affected elements and work on critical and high priorities first. Pages that cannot be reached are marked as failed.

Add manual checks

Test keyboard operation and important journeys such as contact forms. The manual checklist in the project keeps track of your local progress. It stays in the browser you use; it is not synchronised with your team.

Document your progress

After making changes, start a new scan, compare the results and export a report as PDF, JSON, CSV or HTML. You can also request a PDF report by e-mail. For project reports, the e-mail goes to your account’s confirmed address.

Prepare and publish your statement

The statement assistant combines your company details and manual test results with a dated scan record. Saved versions are kept in the project account. Review the complete version and approve it explicitly before you use the public link or the embed. New drafts only change a published version after you approve them again. The assistant does not replace an expert review; an annual reminder helps with ongoing maintenance. More about the statement feature.

Add optional reading aids

Open your project’s installation page and copy the code into the global layout of your website. For WordPress there is a connector; for shops a standalone WooCommerce plugin. Our installation guides for WooCommerce, Shopify, Wix, Webflow, Squarespace, Next.js and HTML explain the other ways to install it. Free projects show a visible Accessonaut brand link in the widget.

Match the widget to your brand

Open “Reading-aid widget” in your project. Choose one of five templates and adjust colours, font, shapes, shadows, title and launcher. The live preview shows your changes on an isolated sample page before you save. Smartphones have their own edge spacing. Your existing embed code picks up the saved project design automatically. In the WordPress plugin you can choose local design settings instead. Styling is available on the Free plan too; the brand link stays visible there.

Test colours directly

With the free contrast checker you compare text and background colours locally in your browser against the WCAG AA and AAA thresholds.

Make texts easier to understand

Under Plain language you create an AI draft from your own source text after explicitly approving it. Edit it, review the content and publish the approved version. Shared AI attempts per calendar month: Free: 2, Standard: 15, Pro: 30, Business: 80. This is not certified easy read and not an automatic check with the target group.

Keep at it regularly

Scheduled scans count towards your monthly limit. Once the limit is used up, no further scan starts. You can find out more about scope and limits on the pricing page.

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