Squarespace Accessibility Checker

Scan the page first so you are fixing measured failures rather than guessing — the report gives you each element and its actual ratio. Most Squarespace contrast failures trace back to the site-wide palette rather than individual pages, so fix them in Design → Colors: darken the text colour in the theme that is failing, and check button labels separately because button text and body text often use different colours. Text over an image banner needs an overlay opacity increase rather than a colour change. WCAG 1.4.3 asks for 4.5:1 on body text and 3:1 on text 18pt and larger, or 14pt bold. Because a palette change applies site-wide, one correction here usually clears the same failure on every page — then rescan to confirm nothing else moved below the threshold.

No website builder can make your site ADA compliant on its own, and Squarespace does not claim to. It gives you an accessible foundation — semantic template markup, alt-text prompts, keyboard-navigable defaults — but compliance depends on what you publish on top of it: the colours you pick, the heading levels you choose, the alt text you write, and the third-party blocks you embed. Title III of the ADA applies to your site, not to your platform, so the obligation is yours regardless of which builder you use.

No. Overlay widgets add a toolbar for adjusting text size and contrast on top of your existing markup; they do not correct the underlying code, and courts have not treated them as a defence. In 2025 the FTC took enforcement action against an overlay vendor over false compliance claims, and sites running overlays have continued to be sued. Fixing the source — the palette, the headings, the alt text — is what actually changes the experience for a screen reader user.

Yes. Authenticated scanning is available on Professional plans and above, which covers member areas, password-protected pages and any content behind a login. You sign in yourself in a real browser and ADAGuard captures the session — it never asks for your Squarespace password.

Some of them, yes. Palette and heading corrections are stored in your site styles and carry across, but templates differ in their slideshow controls, navigation markup and form block rendering, so a switch can reintroduce failures you had already cleared. The same is true of adding a new section type or a third-party embed. Scheduled scans on Starter plans and above rescan on a set interval and email you when the score moves, which is the cheapest way to catch that.