AccessBatch

Overview

AccessBatch is a small-team website accessibility batch scanner. It crawls same-origin pages, renders each page in Chromium with Playwright, runs axe-core WCAG A/AA tagged automated checks, captures full-page screenshots, and produces a developer-friendly evidence bundle (JSON findings, ZIP issue bundle).

Key Features

• Same-origin crawl up to 100 pages per run
• Playwright Chromium rendering for accurate DOM inspection
• axe-core automated WCAG A/AA tag checks
• Full-page PNG evidence screenshots
• JSON findings report + standalone HTML report + ZIP issue bundle
• FastAPI web UI and scan-status API
• SQLite scan history

Install

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
playwright install chromium
uvicorn app.main:app --reload

GitHub direction

Suggested repo metadata: Name accessbatch, Description "Batch website accessibility scans with Playwright, axe-core, screenshots and developer evidence bundles.", Topics: accessibility, wcag, axe-core, playwright, fastapi, a11y, website-audit, python.

Next product increments

1. Sitemap.xml discovery and include/exclude path rules
2. Baseline/suppression file for accepted findings
3. Duplicate finding clustering and issue fingerprints
4. Per-rule evidence pages with cropped element screenshot
5. CI exit thresholds by impact
6. Authenticated scans / saved login-state
7. Scheduled hosted scans and regression history
8. SARIF/GitHub Issues/Jira export