Website Accessibility Copilot
Your website's pages, PDFs and forms checked against the WCAG rules Ontario's AODA points to, with the fixes written in plain words for whoever edits your site
The problem
Under Ontario's Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, a business or non-profit with 50 or more employees has had to meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA on its public website since January 1, 2021, and every organization over 20 employees files a compliance report. Smaller businesses aren't bound by the website rule, and many of them are still losing customers to it: a menu that can't be read by a screen reader, a booking form with no labels, grey text on a white background that a 68-year-old can't make out, a PDF price list that's an image. Accessibility audits are priced for large organizations. The checks themselves are mostly things a careful person can do with the page in front of them. This skill is the careful person.
The tool
Once installed, this skill takes a page at a time. You paste the page's text and describe or paste its structure (headings, links, images and their alt text, the form fields, the colours if you know them), and it works through the WCAG 2.0 AA checks that content and layout decide: headings in order, link text that says where it goes, alt text that describes rather than decorates, labels on every form field, colour contrast against the ratio the standard sets, text that can be resized, captions on video, and the keyboard question for anything that opens or moves. For each failure it writes the fix in words your web person, or you in the page editor, can act on, with the corrected alt text or label drafted.
It handles the documents too: a PDF that's a scanned image is invisible to assistive technology and to search, and the skill tells you whether to rebuild it as a web page or a tagged PDF. It can't run a browser or measure a colour from a screenshot, so it asks you to paste the hex codes or use a free contrast checker and tells you what number to look for. The 50-employee threshold is the law's line, and the skill says so; it also says that the customer who couldn't read your menu didn't check your headcount. New site builds go through the Website Design Studio with these rules in from the start.
What's inside
- A page-by-page check against the WCAG 2.0 AA criteria that content and layout decide, in plain language
- Drafted fixes: corrected alt text, link text, headings, form labels and error messages
- A document triage: which PDFs to rebuild as pages, which to tag, which to leave
- A contrast guide with the ratios to look for and where to measure them
- A priority list for the whole site: the fixes that affect the most visitors first (navigation, booking, contact, prices)
- An accessibility statement for your site and a feedback route, which the standard expects you to offer
How to use it
- 1Click "Install skill" on this page and copy the install prompt.
- 2Paste it into your AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, anything that accepts pasted text).
- 3Answer the setup questions once: headcount, province, what the site is built on, and who edits it.
- 4Start with the pages that matter most (home, services or menu, booking or contact, prices) and paste each page's text and structure for a check.
- 5Give the drafted fixes to whoever edits the site, then run the check again on the same pages.
Example
A 55-person home-care agency in Ottawa has a site built by a cousin in 2018. The first three pages checked turn up the same problems: every image's alt text is the file name, the "Book a consultation" button is an image with no text, the form's fields have placeholders instead of labels, and the body text is light grey on white at a ratio the skill estimates well under the standard's 4.5 to 1 once the owner pastes the hex codes. The fix list is written for the agency's website editor and takes an afternoon. The services brochure, a scanned PDF, becomes a web page. The agency's next AODA compliance report has a truthful yes in it, and the booking form's completion rate goes up, because labels help everyone.
Pro tip
Fix the booking or contact path first, end to end, before touching anything else. A visitor who can't complete that form is a customer you lost; a visitor who struggled with your About page is a customer who shrugged. And write alt text the way you'd describe the photo to someone on the phone: "our front counter with the daily specials board", not "image1" and not "beautiful inviting café interior".
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