Overview

Pa11y is a range of free and open source tools designed to help designers and developers make their web pages more accessible. It provides command-line interfaces and web dashboards that automatically test web pages for accessibility issues and help track improvements over time.

Features

8 features across 7 categories

API(1)

Pa11y Webservice

A JSON-based webservice that backs Pa11y Dashboard. Useful if you want to build your own dashboard-like front end, or repurpose the data.

Also in: Hunter, Lacework, LiveKit

Automation(1)

Daily Automated Testing

Automatically tests web pages for accessibility issues on a daily basis

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

Community(1)

Open Source Projects

Full range of free and open source tools available

Also in: Squarespace, Hugging Face, Obsidian

Continuous Integration(1)

Pa11y CI

A command-line tool which iterates over a list of web pages and highlights accessibility issues. More geared towards use in CI/CD pipelines.

Also in: Harness, Codefresh

Monitoring & Reporting(1)

Pa11y Dashboard

A web dashboard which automatically tests web pages for accessibility issues daily. Includes graphs to help track improvements and regressions over time. Useful for non-developers to see how sites perform.

Also in: Nected, BuzzSumo