A11y Garden

A11y Garden helps developers and teams understand, prioritize, and improve the accessibility of their websites through approachable reports, clear language, and a focus on real users — not just checkboxes. Instead of walls of technical warnings, A11y Garden translates findings into human-readable summaries, simple letter grades, and visual cues that help teams see their progress over time.

Features

• Automated accessibility scanning — Uses axe-core to test websites against WCAG 2.2 guidelines
• Dual viewport scanning — Scans at both desktop (1920×1080) and mobile (390×844) viewports in parallel, with separate results for each
• AI-powered insights — GPT-4.1 Mini translates technical violations into plain English, with separate analysis per viewport
• Letter grade system — Per-viewport grades plus a combined weighted grade (60% desktop + 40% mobile)
• Platform & framework detection — Detects CMS platforms (WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, etc.) and frontend frameworks (Next.js, React, Angular, Svelte, etc.) with confidence levels, providing platform-specific fix advice
• Community database — Browse and search accessibility audits shared by signed-in users
• User accounts — Save and manage your audit history with Clerk authentication
• AI agent fix plans — Generate downloadable AGENTS.md fix-plan files from audit results, ready to drop into Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot (developer framework sites only)
• Export reports — Copy markdown reports including both desktop and mobile results
• Page screenshots — Captures JPEG screenshots at both viewports so users can verify the scanner reached the real site
• WAF bypass — Automatically detects and bypasses Web Application Firewalls using Browserless BrowserQL stealth mode with a multi-tier escalation chain
• Smart fallback strategy — Tries fast Playwright BaaS first, detects WAF blocks or timeouts, then escalates to BQL for authenticated users
• Domain strategy cache — Remembers which domains need BQL bypass via Redis, skipping the BaaS attempt on repeat scans
• robots.txt compliance — Advisory robots.txt checking before each scan with proper User-Agent identification
• CLI tool — Scan sites from your terminal with a11ygarden <url>, dual-viewport by default
• Rate limiting & concurrency — Per-user sliding window (30/hr authenticated, 10/hr anonymous) and global concurrency cap via Upstash Redis
• Light/dark themes — Modern, accessible interface built with Tailwind CSS v4
• Safe mode fallback — Automatically retries with a reduced rule set when complex sites crash the full axe-core scan
• Graceful degradation — Runs without env vars for local demos; a banner warns which features are disabled