An Accessibility Statement is a public page saying what standard you work to, what visitors can adjust, how to tell you about a problem and where they can go if they are not satisfied. PRO writes that page for you from your details and links it from every page.
Where to find it:
Open AiX Accessibility, Checker. Below Your content, checked are two cards: The Accessibility Statement, with your details, and Your statement page.
Your details:
- The name on the statement: your business name. Blank uses your site title.
- Contact email for accessibility problems: the address the statement gives visitors. Left blank, the statement asks them to use your contact page instead, and links it when you have a published page at /contact/, /contact-us/ or /contact-support/. While the ResultsAiX Theme is active, the email in the theme's business details is used.
- Add an Accessibility statement link under the site footer automatically: ticked by default. Untick it if you place the shortcode yourself.
Press Save after changing them.
Create it:
- Fill in your details and press Save.
- Under Your statement page, press Create the Accessibility Statement page.
- A green note says Your Accessibility Statement page is published and linked. Read it and put your own words in where you like.
The page is published at /accessibility-statement/ on your site. If a page already exists at that address, that page is used and published instead, and nothing you wrote is overwritten. Once the page exists, the card shows its address in place of the button.
What it says:
- An opening line with your name and your site.
- The standard we work to: the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA.
- What you can adjust: the reading tools on your site, written from your settings at the moment the page is created, including Listen and In short when they are on.
- What may not be perfect: older content and material supplied by other companies.
- Tell us: your contact email, or your contact page, and a reply time of five working days.
- If you are not satisfied: where to go in the EU, the UK and the United States.
- The date it was last reviewed.
It never claims compliance. It is an ordinary page: edit it like any other and make the words your own. Read it through, check the reply time and the description of what visitors can adjust, and change anything that does not match your site.
Keep it up to date:
The statement is written once, from your settings on the day you create it. If you later switch Listen or In short off, change your contact email, or change your reply time, edit the page to match.
If your statement page was written by an earlier version of the reading tools, a notice on the accessibility screens says Your accessibility statement can be refreshed and offers Refresh the statement. One click brings the paragraph about what visitors can adjust up to date. The rest of the page, and anything you wrote, stays exactly as it is. Press Not now to leave it.
Where it is linked:
- In the Accessibility panel on every page, as an Accessibility statement link at the foot of the panel. This happens for any published page at /accessibility-statement/.
- Under your site footer, as a small Accessibility statement line, while the footer switch is ticked.
- Anywhere you like with the shortcode [raix_accessibility_links], for example in a footer widget. Untick the footer switch if you place it yourself.
- With the ResultsAiX Theme active, the theme shows the link in its own footer instead of the plugin's line.
- In the one-line embed, as data-statement, on pages outside WordPress.
In short on the statement:
The statement is a page, so it gets the reading bar like any other page. With Write In short with AI at first publish switched on and an AI key, it also gets an In short summary when it is created.
A real example:
Maya types Green Lane Garden Studio as the name and access@yoursite.com as the contact email, presses Save, then Create the Accessibility Statement page. The page appears at yoursite.com/accessibility-statement/, opening with Green Lane Garden Studio wants everyone to be able to use Green Lane Garden Studio. She changes the reply time to three working days, which suits her small team, and adds a sentence about large-print plant lists on request.
What the guidance asks, in plain words:
The European Accessibility Act, the UK guidance and the US Department of Justice ADA Title II rule all refer to WCAG 2.1 at level AA. For your content that means every picture has a description, headings are in order, links say where they go, forms have labels, videos have captions, nothing plays by itself, and everything works with a keyboard and with bigger text. The checker helps with these. This is a plain summary, not legal advice.