QualWeb
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The facts
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What it does
- Audience
- QualWeb is presented as a tool for evaluating the accessibility of webpages, with online use as well as command-line and JavaScript integration options.checked 12 Oct 2026
- CI/CD integration
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- CLI inputs
- The CLI supports evaluating a URL, a file of URLs, or a crawled domain.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Contact
- The QualWeb GitHub organization lists [email protected] as its contact email.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Crawling
- Crawl options include maximum depth, maximum URLs, timeout, and maximum parallel crawls.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Evaluation limits
- The core documentation says evaluations may fail or take a long time for webpages that are unavailable, password protected, have invalid HTTPS certificates, or are not HTML documents.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Evaluation modules
- The core engine provides ACT Rules, WCAG Techniques, and Best Practices evaluation modules.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Evaluation settings
- Users can configure viewport, mobile context, language translation, and which evaluation modules and rules or techniques to run.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Experimental modules
- QualWeb may offer experimental modules from research projects, and users can choose to use the service without them.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Inputs
- The core engine accepts a URL, multiple URLs, a file of URLs, a domain to crawl, or HTML code as evaluation input.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integration
- The JavaScript core is installed with npm as @qualweb/core.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The QualWeb core repository identifies its license as ISC.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Open source
- QualWeb describes itself as open source and links to its source code on GitHub.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- QualWeb is an automated web accessibility evaluation service that checks webpages against WCAG 2.1 Techniques and ACT Rules.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Reports
- QualWeb can generate Evaluation and Reporting Language (EARL) reports, including aggregated reports.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Scan scope
- pagechecked 21 Sep 2026
- Standards checks
- QualWeb can automatically check webpages against WCAG 2.1 Techniques and ACT Rules.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The QualWeb site invites users to send suggestions or accessibility problems to [email protected].checked 12 Oct 2026
- Usage limits
- The core documentation says some webpages may fail evaluation or take a long time, and lists invalid URLs, unavailable pages, invalid certificates, password protection, and non-HTML documents among possible causes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Ways to use
- QualWeb can be used online, from the command line, as a browser extension, or integrated into JavaScript projects.checked 12 Oct 2026
- WCAG version
- wcag 2.1checked 21 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Browser extension
- The project provides a Chrome extension that can be loaded in Chrome through its extensions page using Developer Mode.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Lisbonchecked 28 Sep 2026
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