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title: "a11y"
description: "Realize the speed, agility and performance of a scalable, composable web architecture with Netlify. Explore the composable web platform now!"
source: "https://www.netlify.com/integrations/netlify-plugin-a11y/"
last_updated: "2026-07-28T12:51:17.000Z"
---
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## Details

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-   More Info
    -   [npm package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/netlify-plugin-a11y)
    -   [Review release notes](https://github.com/netlify-labs/netlify-plugin-a11y/releases)
    -   [Read docs](https://github.com/netlify-labs/netlify-plugin-a11y#readme)
    -   [Report an issue](https://github.com/netlify-labs/netlify-plugin-a11y/issues)

This plugin uses [`pa11y`](https://github.com/pa11y/pa11y) (which in turn uses [`axe-core`](https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core)) to check your Netlify project for accessibility issues.

If issues are found, the plugin generates a report which provides:

-   the path to the HTML file in which the error was found
-   a description of the error with a link to the relevant [Deque University rule](https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/latest)
-   the name of the error within the aXe API
-   the path to the the DOM element associated with the error
-   the DOM element itself
-   the total number of issues on the page
-   the sum of _all_ issues across _all_ pages that were checked

By default, the plugin checks **all** your site’s pages for violations of WCAG 2.1 level AA, and fails the site build if any a11y issues are found.