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Getting started

Your first scan

Run an accessibility scan, read the report, and set up monitoring — in about five minutes.

Before you begin

You can run a guest scan with no account. To see every issue, fix suggestions, and monitoring, create a free account first. Have the URL of a public page ready and know which standard applies to you (ADA, WCAG, EAA or Section 508).

Run a scan

From the dashboard, choose New scan, enter a URL and pick a standard. Or trigger one via the API:

curl -X POST https://api.accessiscan.com/api/sites/{id}/scan \ -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "standardId": 1, "maxPages": 50 }'

Read the score

Each scan returns a 0–100 score and issues grouped by severity. A score of 90+ means broadly compliant; below 55 means real barriers exist.

Tip: sort by Critical first. Fixing critical and serious issues moves the score the most.

Turn on monitoring

In Site settings, enable monitoring and choose a frequency. AccessiScan re-scans automatically and notifies you when new issues appear after a deploy.