diff --git a/include/toml11/value.hpp b/include/toml11/value.hpp
index 9d54648..7053f35 100644
--- a/include/toml11/value.hpp
+++ b/include/toml11/value.hpp
@@ -2042,7 +2042,9 @@ class basic_value
     comment_type const& comments() const noexcept {return this->comments_;}
     comment_type&       comments()       noexcept {return this->comments_;}
 
+#ifdef TOML11_ENABLE_ACCESS_CHECK
     bool accessed() const {return this->accessed_.load();}
+#endif
 
   private:
 
diff --git a/tests/test_accessed.cpp b/tests/test_accessed.cpp
index 68d48ee..c983e43 100644
--- a/tests/test_accessed.cpp
+++ b/tests/test_accessed.cpp
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 #include <toml.hpp>
 
+#ifdef TOML11_ENABLE_ACCESS_CHECK
+
 TEST_CASE("testing toml::parse(file)")
 {
     using namespace toml::literals::toml_literals;
@@ -70,3 +72,5 @@ role = "backend"
     CHECK_UNARY_FALSE(u.at("database").at("temp_targets").at("cpu" ).accessed());
     CHECK_UNARY_FALSE(u.at("database").at("temp_targets").at("case").accessed());
 }
+
+#endif // TOML11_ENABLE_ACCESS_CHECK