Accessibility stopped being optional a while ago. The European Accessibility Act has been enforceable since June 2025, US ADA web lawsuits keep climbing, and — the part that should motivate you even if lawsuits never will — roughly one in six people browsing your site benefits directly when you get this right. Divi gives you the tools to build accessible pages. It also gives you the tools to build gorgeous, completely inaccessible ones, and it will not warn you which you are doing.
After auditing a lot of Divi pages, we can tell you the failures are not exotic. The same five problems account for most of what goes wrong.
The five ways Divi sites fail accessibility
1. Styled text pretending to be headings
A Text module set to 30px bold looks like a heading and is not one. A screen-reader user navigating by headings skips right past it; so does a search engine mapping your page structure. Every section title should be a real Heading module at the right level — H2 for sections, H3 for subsections, no jumping from H2 to H5 because the H5 “looked right.”
2. Missing alt text
Every meaningful image needs alt text that says what the image shows. Decorative flourishes should have empty alt so screen readers skip them. The failure mode on Divi sites is usually neither — images with no alt attribute at all, especially in galleries and blurbs.
3. “Click here” links
Screen readers can pull up a list of every link on the page, out of context. A list that reads “click here, learn more, read more, here” is useless. Link text should say where it goes: “see the pricing plans,” not “click here.”
4. Contrast that fails in the pretty places
Light gray body text on white. White text over a busy hero image. Brand colors that were chosen in a logo meeting, not against WCAG’s 4.5:1 ratio for body text. Contrast failures cluster exactly where designers were being tasteful.
5. Untitled iframes
Embedded maps and videos arrive as iframes, and without a title attribute a screen reader announces them as, effectively, “mystery box.” Thirty seconds to fix, almost always missed.
Auditing every page at once
You can check all of this by hand, page by page, and for a five-page site you probably should. Past that, it stops happening — which is why Divi Autopilot’s accessibility audit checks heading order, alt text, link text, iframe titles and color contrast across every page in one run, reading the actual Divi modules so it can point at the exact one that failed.
Two of the five have automated fixes: missing alt text and broken heading order can be repaired in place, with every change journaled and individually undoable. Contrast gets a review flow — the plugin proposes, you approve — because color decisions deserve a human eye.
One more thing: your accessibility statement
If your site claims to be accessible, that claim is now a compliance document. Divi Autopilot’s legal audit cross-checks your accessibility statement against your actual accessibility audit results — so the page that says “we meet WCAG AA” is not contradicted by the audit two tabs over. Awkward conversations are cheaper before publication.
Run the checklist on your site today: the accessibility audit is one of the 43 tools in Divi Autopilot’s free tier. If the findings list is longer than you hoped, the fixers are waiting in the paid plans — from $99/year.