Accessibility Pre-Audit: a plain-English WCAG check of your website

Give it your website's address. It checks up to 25 pages with axe-core, the open-source engine behind many professional accessibility tools. It then explains each problem in plain English: what's wrong, where, how many times, and how to fix it.

For small businesses, nonprofits, schools and local governments getting ready for the U.S. Justice Department's web accessibility rule (WCAG 2.1 AA): April 2027 for larger state and local governments, April 2028 for smaller ones and special districts.

What you get

• Problems grouped by kind and ranked by severity (critical, serious, moderate, minor). For each one:
  • how many pages and elements it affects;
  • a plain fix ("Give every meaningful image a short alt text...");
  • the WCAG success criteria, with example elements so you can find them;
  • a link to the full rule explanation.
• Needs a person to check: items the automated engine couldn't decide, such as text over images.
• The manual checks still needed: keyboard-only use, 200% zoom, a screen reader, captions, form errors, documents.
• A readable report.html in the run's key-value store, and the problems as a dataset (JSON, CSV, Excel).

Example input

{ "url": "https://www.example.com", "maxPages": 10, "standard": "2.1-AA" }

To see what a report looks like first, try W3C's deliberately inaccessible demo site, https://www.w3.org/WAI/demos/bad/before/home.html, which is filled in for you. Otherwise, check only sites you own or manage.

Pricing

• A small charge per page checked.
• A charge per kind of problem found. A clean site costs only the pages.

Honest limits

• This is a pre-audit, not a compliance certificate, and not legal advice. Automated checks find only part of the problems. In one 2026 comparison against manual audits, axe-core found about a quarter of the issues people found. The report lists what you still need to check by hand.
• We never sell overlay widgets or "instant compliance". Fixing the site itself is what works.
• It checks one site per run, at most 25 pages, follows robots.txt, and visits pages one at a time.

Credits

Automated checks by axe-core 4.14 (Deque Systems, MPL-2.0). Hestia's Creations is not affiliated with Deque, and is not a law firm.

Made by Hestia's Creations, a small company in Springfield, Oregon, working on the ethical use of AI for everyday people.