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A11y Scan is in Beta

Beta

The extension is a working beta for page scans, site crawls and local accessibility review. Beta describes the product's maturity and current capability boundaries; A11y Scan is free to use. Explore the guides and build a website-specific JSON profile. Read the published accessibility articles for practical testing workflows.

What works in the preview

Page scan and reports

axe-core and heuristic checks, affected elements, WCAG references, and JSON export. Single-page reports also offer HTML and print-to-PDF.

Site crawl

Follow configured URL seeds and bounded page waits. Use explicit local authentication and scoped response mocks. Opt-in viewport screenshots and HTML snapshots stay in the current result until explicitly exported.

Visual inspection

On-page highlights, assisted reading and tab order, Scan Movie, and color-vision simulation.

JSON scan profiles

Website builder and extension import/export use the same versioned scan configuration. Unsupported settings and combinations are blocked before they can be ignored.

Guides and references

The WCAG reference provides practical local validation guidance for all 86 active criteria, with links to official W3C sources. Explore fourteen feature guides, eight tutorials and beta data-handling notices.

AI Chat where supported

The extension can discuss current findings using Chrome’s built-in model when it is available. An unavailable model has an explicit disabled state.

What still needs work

  • The extension is publicly available in the Chrome Web Store ↗. Final store-delivered install/update and listing metadata checks are tracked separately.
  • Observe mode and Crawl or Movie combined with multi-viewport scanning are not available.
  • AI conversation needs a supported Chrome built-in model; availability varies by browser environment.
  • The support form uses Turnstile and server-side verification. A valid-challenge ticket receipt and customer-reply round trip have not yet been verified.

Found a problem or have a request?

Visit Support for the available contact paths. Start with Getting Started if you have project access to the preview build.