WCAG Crawler
The facts below are what the maker publishes about WCAG Crawler, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From WCAG Crawler's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| WCAG Crawler | Free | Hosted use: no account needed · anonymous scans: 10 pages, depth 2, concurrency 1 · self-hostable under MIT license |
The facts
Each one read from WCAG Crawler's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- The API supports starting, listing, retrieving, deleting, and cancelling scans, plus retrieving and exporting reports as HTML.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Authentication and access
- Signed-in users authenticate with verified Google ID tokens and access only scans they own; anonymous scan creation is rate-limited by IP.checked 12 Oct 2026
- CI/CD integration
- A GitHub Action can scan a URL in a workflow and fail based on a score threshold or critical issues.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Credential handling
- Target-site credentials are used only during a scan and are not persisted; credential-like URL values are rejected or sanitized.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The repository documents Docker self-hosting and deployment with a Vercel frontend and Railway or Render backend.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The project describes use by government agencies, web agencies, enterprises, and developers integrating accessibility checks into CI/CD.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Issue grouping
- It groups shared component issues across pages and detects duplicate pages and repeated failing selectors.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository states that WCAG Crawler is MIT licensed.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The project says no data leaves a self-hosted instance and scan history is stored in localStorage.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- WCAG Crawler scans websites for accessibility issues against WCAG 2.0 A/AA and WCAG 2.1 A/AA criteria.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Reports
- Reports include severity filters, before-and-after code suggestions, WCAG references, and links to Deque University.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Scan limits
- Anonymous scans are capped at 10 pages and depth 2; verified Google users at 50 pages and depth 3; allowlisted admins at 100 pages and depth 5.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Site crawling
- It automatically discovers and scans pages within a domain using Playwright, with configurable depth and URL patterns.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Testing limits
- Automated scans cover only programmatically identifiable issues and do not certify compliance or replace expert manual evaluation.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Sarasota, Florida, USchecked 28 Sep 2026
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