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WP Accessibility · Version history

WP Accessibility changelog and version history

Latest version
2.4.5
Oct 25, 2026 (15 days ago)
Releases
30
since 2012
In the last year
6
about one every 55 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20121 release
  • 20131 release
  • 20142 releases
  • 20153 releases
  • 20161 release
  • 20172 releases
  • 20192 releases
  • 20227 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20254 releases
  • 20266 releases

20266 releases

  1. WP Accessibility 2.4.5Latest

    • Bug fix: Broken nonce prevented simplified content summary from saving.

  2. WP Accessibility 2.4.4

    • Security: Fix potential disclosure of private data via the longdesc parameter.
    • Bug fix: Color contrast form target wrong admin page.
    • Bug fix: Remove extraneous ‘p’ parameter on longdesc targets.
    • Bug fix: Get post ID from parent article if not on img.
    • Change: Improve title element on longdesc target page.
    • Updates & hardening to meet current WordPress plugin standards.

  3. WP Accessibility 2.4.0

    • Change: Refactor font resizing to be JS based, resizing all text elements equivalently.
    • Remove existing font resizing styles.
    • Retain fallback for custom font resizing stylesheets, if present.
    • Add promotional notice for WordPress Accessibility Day.

  4. WP Accessibility 2.3.5

    • Reverse the infinite scroll default setting that regresses in WordPress 7.1.

  5. WP Accessibility 2.3.4

    • Feature: Add styling for block editor hover states.
    • Feature: Add escape class to ignore alt text toggles: wpa-skip.
    • Bug fix: Ignore controls with aria-hidden or hidden attributes when removing tabindex from controls.
    • Design: Update to use new admin colors with fallbacks.
    • Docs: Update filter documentation style.
    • Docs: Build docs in wiki.
    • Add versions to editor styles.

  6. WP Accessibility 2.3.0

    • Change: Split settings into three pages: features, admin, and remediation.
    • Change: Add settings to disable automatic labelling, viewport settings, lang attributes, and removal of title attributes.
    • Change: Remove PHP-based title attribute removals.
    • Change: Switch settings markup from lists to paragraphs.
    • Change: Add bulk disable to turn off all overlay features.

20254 releases

  1. WP Accessibility 2.2.6

    • Bug fix: Incorrect call to .removeAttr triggered catch condition on all URLs, throwing unnecessary console messages.

  2. WP Accessibility 2.2.5

    • Bug fix: Toolbar preference cookies not set.

  3. WP Accessibility 2.2.0

    • Feature: Option for automatic insertion of play/pause button on autoplay videos without controls.
    • Feature: Automatically pause autoplay videos if prefers-reduced-motion enabled.
    • Change: Refactor all front-end JS to remove jQuery dependency.
    • Change: Design changes to alt text and long description buttons for consistency.
    • Change: Expand focusable element selector list: more thorough, now does not select the a11y toolbar itself.
    • Change: Add design CSS for longdesc link.
    • Change: Omit buttons with role="button" from fake button selector.
    • Change: Keep title attributes on images if they are different from the alt text.
    • Change: Also remove target attributes on URL fragments.
    • Change: Find non-link elements with role="link" and make focusable.
    • Change: Make links using a with role="link" and no href focusable.
    • Change: Add link styles on role="link".
    • Bug Fix: Apply grayscale on html element to prevent shifts in position.
    • Bug Fix: Modernize screen reader text classes.
    • Bug Fix: Change how version number is handled. Automatic updates don’t execute activation, so version wasn’t getting incremented.

  4. WP Accessibility 2.1.19

    • Bug fix: Don’t load admin JS outside of WP Accessibility settings.
    • Bug fix: Allow text selection on headings.
    • Bug fix: If toolbar custom location is invalid, change attachment to body.
    • Change: Remove an extraneous fieldset in settings.
    • Change: Change download icon to universal access in stats.
    • Change: Set all WP A11y scripts to use the defer loading strategy.

20231 release

  1. WP Accessibility 2.1.0

    • Bug fix: Fix label for attributes. Props @sabernhardt.
    • Bug fix: Fix position of image alt attribute warnings.
    • Bug fix: Prevent existence of alt warnings from breaking captions.
    • Change: Render toolbar location relatively instead of absolutely.
    • Change: Improve alt text tests.
    • Change: Record count of occurrences for fake button/link tests.
    • Change: Set wpa_lang option to on by default.
    • Change: Switch auto labeling to always one.
    • Change: Switch skiplink CSS to use default by default.
    • Change: Remove setting for filtering title attributes and turn on by default.
    • Change: Consolidate and minify JS.
    • Feature: Add stats collection to provide view into what WP Accessibility is doing.

20227 releases

  1. WP Accessibility 2.0.1

    • Add .et_smooth_scroll_disabled to skip links to override Divi’s inaccessible smooth scrolling.
    • Add promotional affiliate links for Equalize Digital’s Accessibility Checker

  2. WP Accessibility 2.0.0

    • New feature: Show alt attributes toggle on content images.
    • New feature: Ensure users can adjust scale even if maximum-scale set to 1.0.
    • New feature: Alt enforcement indicators now present in block editor.
    • New feature: Flag missing captions or subtitles in uploaded videos in editor.
    • Updated feature: Remove title attributes now more intelligent.
    • Updated feature: Modernized alt attribute enforcement tools.
    • Change: Combine remediation scripting in wp-accessibility.js.
    • Change: Disable accessibility-ready duplicating features if theme changed to accessibility-ready.
    • Bug fix: aria-expanded missing in some cases for longdesc disclosures.
    • Bug fix: Main JS file did not have a version number.
    • Bug fix: Run feature JS after running remediation JS.
    • Bug fix: Fix DOM ordering with image disclosure buttons.
    • Retired language directory call. Translation files haven’t been updated since version Oct 2014.

  3. WP Accessibility 1.9.2

  4. WP Accessibility 1.9.0

  5. WP Accessibility 1.8.1

  6. WP Accessibility 1.8.0

  7. WP Accessibility 1.7.14

20192 releases

  1. WP Accessibility 1.7.0

  2. WP Accessibility 1.6.10

20172 releases

  1. WP Accessibility 1.6.0

  2. WP Accessibility 1.5.10

20161 release

  1. WP Accessibility 1.5.0

20153 releases

  1. WP Accessibility 1.4.6

  2. WP Accessibility 1.4.0

  3. WP Accessibility 1.3.11

20142 releases

  1. WP Accessibility 1.3.0

  2. WP Accessibility 1.2.9

20131 release

  1. WP Accessibility 1.2.3

20121 release

  1. WP Accessibility 1.0.0

Questions about WP Accessibility’s releases

What is the latest version of WP Accessibility?

2.4.5, released on Oct 25, 2026 (2 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is WP Accessibility updated?

6 releases in the last year, about one every 55 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from October 2012.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in WP Accessibility’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.