Accessibility
AI help for accessibility
Fix suggestions for an issue's actual HTML, an alt text review of your images, a second opinion on Needs review items, and a plain-language summary, all with your own AI key.
With an AI key set, Accessibility can help with four things. Each runs only when you press its button, costs a little (shown next to the button), and gives you text to copy: Startica never changes your site. The checks themselves stay free and don’t use AI.
Note
What the AI reads comes from your pages: HTML, alt text, nearby text, images and screenshots. It’s sent to your AI provider as data, with instructions to ignore anything in it that looks like an instruction. See How Startica uses AI.
Fix suggestions
On an issue’s page, Suggest a fix sends the rule, its WCAG criteria and up to three failing elements’ HTML. You get:
- a short explanation of what’s wrong for people using assistive technology;
- the corrected HTML of the element, to copy;
- steps, including where it probably lives when the issue is on many pages (a shared template or component);
- a confidence: high when the fix is mechanical, medium or low when it depends on content the AI can’t see (for example what an image shows).
Suggest again asks for a new one, optionally with guidance such as “We use React; the logo is the <Logo> component in Header.tsx”. About $0.01 each. After you fix it, Recheck the issue’s pages.
Alt text review
Accessibility → Images lists every image the scans found, once per address (a logo on every page is one row), with its alt text and how many pages use it. Need attention shows images without alt text and those the review flagged.
Review N images downloads up to 50 images not reviewed yet, most used first, and judges each one’s alt text in context (the page, nearby text, whether it’s a link):
| Verdict | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Good | The alt text conveys the image’s purpose. |
| Needs better | It’s vague, a file name, too long, or describes the wrong thing. A link’s image should say where the link goes. |
| Decorative | The image adds nothing; it should have alt="". |
| Missing | It has no alt attribute, or an empty one although it carries meaning. |
| Check by hand | It couldn’t be read: an SVG, over 4 MB, or not reachable. |
Each verdict comes with a reason and, where it helps, a suggested alt to copy. About $0.005 an image. When you change an image’s alt text, the next scan clears its verdict so it’s reviewed again.
Needs review
On Needs review, Ask AI looks at an item’s element, with the page screenshot when there is one, and suggests Pass or Fail (or that you look closely) with its reasoning. It’s a second opinion: you still press Pass, Fail or Skip. About $0.01 each.
Summary
On the Overview, Summarize writes three to five sentences on where the site stands, what changed in recent scans, and what to fix next. It says when there’s a newer scan than the one it summarized. About $0.01.
Costs
All four use your AI key and count toward the monthly budget in Settings → General → AI. Fix suggestions and summaries use the draft model; the alt text review and Ask AI use the vision model, which reads images. See Costs and budget.