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I scanned 5 major UK websites for WCAG 2.2 violations and here are the results.
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I scanned 5 major UK websites for WCAG 2.2 violations and here are the results.

via Dev.to WebdevRichard Huang2h ago

So I built an accessibility scanner that uses Playwright + axe-core in a headless browser to scan websites for WCAG 2.2 violations, then uses the Anthropic API to generate AI code fixes for each one. To test it, I ran crawls against 5 well-known UK brand websites (10 pages each): Gymshark — 112 violations (25 critical, 48 serious) Missguided — 58 violations (21 critical, 16 serious) The Body Shop — 68 violations (10 critical, 11 serious) JD Sports — 35 violations (1 critical, 13 serious) Trainline — 26 violations (1 critical, 10 serious) Most common issues: missing alt text on product images, form fields without labels, broken keyboard navigation, and insufficient colour contrast. ALL basic violations on every single site. The stack: Next.js + TypeScript frontend Playwright + axe-core via Browserless for scanning Anthropic API (Claude) for generating code fixes Supabase for auth and data Stripe for payments Vercel for deployment The scanner injects axe-core 4.10.2 via page.evaluate to

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