A WordPress alternative where it works out of the box
The short version
WordPress audits; Windrow refuses. Every page on a Windrow site passes a real accessibility check before it publishes, and no choice you can make produces unreadable text.
Why people go looking
WordPress can do anything, which is the problem: whether your site is accessible depends on your theme, your page builder, your plugins, and how they collided this month. The answer to "is my site accessible" is always "it depends," and it changes on every update. People leave WordPress to stop maintaining the question.
What Windrow does differently
Windrow will not publish a page that fails a real WCAG 2.2 AA check. Not a warning you can dismiss: a gate. That covers alt text, labels, heading order, and contrast, and the things most tools never test, like whether the page reflows at 320 pixels and whether the focus indicator is visible on every background.
The rest of the stack keeps the same promise to your readers: share links with no third-party scripts, built-in newsletters with confirmed opt-in and no open tracking, and built-in analytics with no cookies and no fingerprinting. Do Not Track is honored for real.
And the standard equipment says the same thing: a skip link on every page, data tables that cannot publish without captions, audio that cannot publish without a transcript, plain-language summaries, your organization's own writing style suggested as authors type, and courses that never track a learner.
Where WordPress still wins
Two-fifths of the web runs on WordPress for a reason: infinite flexibility, every integration imaginable, and a developer everywhere you look. If you need a custom application wearing a CMS, WordPress still wins.
Who should switch, and who should stay
If your site depends on a specific plugin ecosystem, stay. If your site is pages, posts, forms, and media, and you would rather the platform guarantee the outcome than a maintenance contract chase it, Windrow is what "it works out of the box" actually means: every publish checked, every theme proven, nothing to keep patched.
Moving your site
There is no one-click importer, and we will not pretend otherwise. What exists is a full content API built for AI agents: an assistant connected to Windrow can rebuild your pages, posts, and media in a working session, and every page it creates has to pass the same accessibility gate you do. Your old URLs can be forwarded with built-in redirects, so nothing you have shared goes dead.
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