Tireless Labs

WCAG Watch

Check one page for accessibility failures, right now.

Paste a URL. We load the page in a real browser, run the automated WCAG 2.1 A and AA checks, and show you what failed in plain language — usually in under half a minute.

Scan a page

One page, checked immediately. Free, five scans a day per visitor. We fetch the page as TirelessLabsScanner/1.0 — see about this scanner.

What an automated check can and cannot tell you

Automated testing finds roughly 25–33% of the WCAG issues on a page. Everything we report is a real, machine-verifiable failure worth fixing. But a clean result is not conformance and not a clean bill of health: whether your alt text is accurate, whether the focus order makes sense, whether a screen-reader user can actually finish your checkout — none of that can be measured by a machine, and all of it is required.

This is a technical measurement, not a certification, not a compliance statement, and not legal advice. Full conformance needs a human expert audit.

How the check works

We open your URL in a real Chromium browser, wait for the page to settle, and run axe-core against the WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 level A and AA rule sets. The result is deterministic: the same page in the same state produces the same findings, every time. Nothing about your page is sent to a language model, and no part of the report is written by one.

We identify ourselves honestly. Requests arrive with the user-agent TirelessLabsScanner/1.0 and a link to a page explaining what the scanner is, so you can allow it, rate-limit it, or block it deliberately. For this free check we fetch the one URL you give us and the subresources that page loads — nothing on this page crawls your site. (Crawling happens only under a paid monitoring subscription, and only after the site's owner has confirmed in writing that we may.)

Free for one page, paid for a whole site

What is included now and what is planned
Free One page, checked the moment you ask. Full findings on screen, emailed to you if you want a copy. Five a day per visitor. Available now.
Monitoring — €29/month A crawl of one whole site, up to 150 pages, re-run every week. What it covers and what it does not. Open now — €29 a month, one site, cancel any time. The weekly change email is still being built; what runs today is the scheduled crawl with the findings stored per page.

Scheduled and multi-page scanning is the paid product, so it is not part of the free check. That is a deliberate line, not an oversight.

Common questions

Does a clean result mean my site is compliant?

No. Automated checks cover a minority of the WCAG success criteria — roughly 25–33% of the issues on a page. A clean automated result is not conformance, not a certification and not legal advice; full conformance needs a human expert audit.

Do you store the page you scanned?

We store the URL, the findings, and the CSS selectors of the failing elements. We do not keep a copy of your page or take screenshots.

Why did my site refuse the scan?

Plenty of hosts block traffic from datacentre networks by default, which is where this scanner runs. If you get a refusal, allowing the user-agent TirelessLabsScanner/1.0 usually fixes it.

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