GotAlt is a free accessibility checker that opens your images. Rule checks confirm your alt text exists; GotAlt fetches the actual image and checks whether it's true. Free scan in 30 seconds, then the deep AI audit that finds what rule engines structurally can't.
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Not ready to hand over a URL? See a real report first · Just want the image check? Check if my alt text is actually right
These are the failures any scanner can detect: attributes that are missing or malformed.
Rule engines can only check whether alt text exists. We fetch your actual images and check whether the alt text is true, plus whether your link text and headings make sense to someone who can't see the page. This is the part of WCAG automated tools normally skip.
Automated checks cover part of WCAG. Keyboard navigation and focus visibility need a person testing the page, and color contrast needs the rendered page: our free bookmarklet measures it on any live page. Treat this report as a strong starting point, not a compliance certificate; no automated tool can promise one. Our full accessibility checklist covers both kinds.
Weekly re-audits and email alerts when a site change introduces new issues. Leave your email and we'll contact you to set up monitoring. No card required.
The European Accessibility Act has applied since June 28, 2025, and enforcement has begun: advocacy groups have put major retailers on formal notice, and the first court orders have landed. It covers most companies selling online to EU consumers, wherever they're based. Read our EAA guide.
Federal website-accessibility filings under the ADA rose from 2,452 in 2024 to 3,117 in 2025 (ADA Title III tracker). Missing alt text and unlabeled form fields are among the most common failures WebAIM finds on home pages (WebAIM Million), and both are exactly what this scan finds. Public-sector sites have their own deadline: Title II now lands in April 2027.
The FTC ordered accessiBe to pay $1,000,000 in April 2025 over claims that its AI tool could make any website meet WCAG. Fixing accessibility means fixing the HTML. What the FTC actually found.
Answer a few questions in which accessibility laws apply to me?, compare accessibility laws by country, or read all 86 WCAG 2.2 success criteria in plain English.
Found missing alt text? Fix it in minutes with our free AI alt text generator.
Most automated accessibility testing is built on open-source rule engines. They are fast and free to run, which is why unlimited rule-based scanning is widely available. But they can only answer one kind of question.
alt attribute?label?Answerable by reading the HTML. By common estimates, roughly a third of WCAG (how we count).
Answerable only by judgment. We fetch the real images and read the real content.
Every deep audit fetches your images and puts each one through a vision model, page by page. That is why GotAlt prices by monitored page rather than selling unlimited scans, and why it finds problems a rule engine passes. The longer argument, including where rule engines beat us.
"14 images missing alt" is a ticket. "This product photo says banner2.jpg and the alt text on your hero contradicts the headline" is a conversation that wins remediation work.
A broken nav component shouldn't read as 874 separate errors. Each problem is listed once, with how many times it occurs and examples of where, so developers can trace it to the template and fix it there.
Every scan, audit, and manual check is logged into an evidence trail in your dashboard, the record auditors and clients ask for. We never claim a badge makes you "compliant"; we document what was done.
Priced per deep audit, not per unlimited shallow scan. If all you need is a rule-engine pass, free tools do that, including ours.
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Rule-based scanners confirm that alt text exists. GotAlt also opens your images and checks that the alt text is true, on the pages you choose, every week. Full refund within 7 days of your first payment, and you can cancel from your account page at any time. Full pricing and what's in each plan.
No, and be wary of any tool that says otherwise. Automated checks cover a meaningful part of WCAG (the technical standard behind the EAA, ADA cases, and Section 508), but full conformance also needs human review of things like contrast, keyboard flows, and content clarity. GotAlt finds the issues machines can find, tells you what's left, and helps you track progress.
The scan checks WCAG success criteria, the standard referenced by the EU's European Accessibility Act (in force since June 2025), the US ADA and Section 508, the UK Equality Act, and most accessibility rules worldwide.
Broadly: if you sell to EU consumers online, it likely applies, wherever your company is based. There's one notable carve-out: microenterprises providing services (fewer than 10 employees and under €2M turnover) are exempt. Accessibility can still matter for you regardless: ADA exposure, customer reach, and SEO don't have a headcount exemption.
Two passes. The free scan fetches your page (plus up to two linked pages) and runs 16 rule-based WCAG checks on the HTML, the same class of checks other scanners run. The deep AI audit then downloads your actual images and asks a vision model whether each alt text truly describes its image, and reads your link text and headings for clarity. We don't inject widgets or modify your site.
Other scanners read your HTML and apply rules: is there an alt attribute, a label, a heading. GotAlt runs those checks too, and the scan is free. What it adds is the deep audit: it opens your images with a vision model and checks that each alt text is true of the picture, then re-checks your monitored pages every week and emails you when a site change introduces a new issue. That check finds problems that pass every rule engine cleanly.
Free scan and audit results are returned to your browser and not kept on our side. If you sign up for paid monitoring, that's different by design: we store the pages you ask us to watch and their weekly check history, because tracking change over time is the point. Full detail is in our privacy policy.
Missing alt text is the most common issue we find, so we built a free AI generator to fix it: drop images in, get WCAG-friendly alt text out. 3 free images a day, after a one-time email.
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