Accessibility · WCAG 2.1 AA
A dated, good-faith record of where a site stands on WCAG 2.1 AA.
ADA-Watch runs a bounded, read-only scan of a public site — live axe-core plus real WCAG contrast math across a same-origin crawl — and produces a deterministic scorecard and a scoped conformance record. Automated scanning plus human expert review: anything a tool cannot confirm is reported as “needs human review”, never as a pass.
What the scan does
Read-only by design
The only tenant is a hard read-only scan: collect and analyse, nothing more. There is no write, propose, or open-PR capability anywhere on this path — asserted at the surface.No fabrication
A criterion passes only when an automated check is a full proxy and ran clean. Untestable criteria, sub-threshold findings, and pages that could not be rendered are all reported as needs human review — never silently upgraded to a pass.Deterministic scorecard
The full WCAG 2.1 A + AA catalogue, scored from live axe-core violations and real contrast math. Identical evidence yields a byte-identical scorecard — and there is no overall “compliant” boolean to oversell.Safe to point at any URL
Every target is SSRF-checked and DNS-rebind-checked before a byte is fetched. Private, loopback, link-local, and metadata addresses are refused.A record you can keep
Each scan renders an unsigned Accessibility Conformance Statement record (HTML and a scoped PDF): the standard referenced, the date, what was checked, and what still needs a human.Human-in-the-loop
A record becomes a signed statement only when a named accessibility expert reviews and signs it. Automated tooling cannot perform that step, and this record does not claim to.What an automated scan cannot do
Automated tools detect a minority of accessibility barriers. They cannot confirm that content is usable with assistive technology, that meaning is conveyed without colour, that keyboard navigation is logical, or that a page works for a person who is blind, DeafBlind, or has a cognitive disability. A clean automated scan does not mean a page is accessible — it is a starting point for human review, recorded honestly.