WordPress sites are the most-sued
category in ADA litigation.
43% of the web runs WordPress. Plaintiff firms know it — they script their scanners to crawl WP sites first. Sturdly monitors your WordPress site daily and generates the legal paperwork automatically.
Why plaintiff firms target WordPress specifically.
Themes ship with violations baked in
WordPress's flexibility is its weakness. Third-party themes — even popular, well-reviewed ones — routinely ship with color contrast failures, missing landmark regions, and unlabeled interactive elements. Plaintiff firms know which themes have which violations. They scan for them at scale.
Page builders break WCAG silently
Elementor, Divi, and other page builders add layers that undo browser defaults. Tab order gets scrambled. Widgets render without accessible names. Color contrast looks fine in the editor and fails in the browser. These violations appear invisible to site owners and obvious to accessibility scanners.
WooCommerce checkout is high-litigation territory
Financial transactions plus inaccessibility equals larger damages. ADA complaints targeting e-commerce checkouts cite form field labels, error message announcements, and button contrast — exactly the violations that appear in WooCommerce's default templates.
What Sturdly checks on WordPress sites.
Sturdly renders your pages the way a browser does — JavaScript included — so Elementor widgets, WooCommerce forms, and dynamically injected content are all scanned. Nothing is missed because the scanner only sees raw HTML.
- Elementor widget alt text and accessible names
- WooCommerce form labels and error announcements
- Contact Form 7 keyboard traps and focus management
- Navigation menu keyboard and screen reader accessibility
- Color contrast in theme CSS and custom styles
- Image alt text across all posts, pages, and products
- Missing skip navigation links
- Mobile touch target sizes (minimum 44×44 px)
Install the free Sturdly plugin.
See your score in your WP dashboard.
The Sturdly plugin puts your compliance score where you already work — inside WordPress admin — so you always know your exposure without leaving the dashboard.
$ wp plugin install sturdly{
"renderer": "headless_chromium",
"js_executed": true,
"elementor_detected": true,
"widgets_scanned": 34,
"violations_found": 7,
"missed_by_static_scan": 5
}Built with Elementor?
We scan it right.
Elementor renders its output in the browser — not the server. Static HTML scanners never see it. Sturdly runs a full headless Chromium render before scanning, so every Elementor widget, section, and dynamic element is evaluated exactly as your visitors see it.
In our testing, server-side-only scanners miss an average of 70% of violations on Elementor-built pages. Those are the violations plaintiff firms find.
Your checkout flow is your highest-risk page.
ADA lawsuits targeting e-commerce stores focus on the checkout: that's where inaccessibility causes the most concrete harm — and where courts have been most willing to find liability. Sturdly scans your entire WooCommerce checkout flow.
Unlabeled form fields
Billing address, card number, and shipping fields without programmatic labels are cited in nearly every WooCommerce ADA complaint.
Error message announcements
When a customer enters an invalid card number or zip code, screen readers must be notified. WooCommerce's default error handling often fails this.
Button color contrast
"Place Order" and "Apply Coupon" buttons in many WooCommerce themes fail WCAG 1.4.3 contrast ratios — a violation that appears in PACER records repeatedly.
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