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Programmatic Accessibility Analysis: Extract Page Structure with /inspect

Programmatic Accessibility Analysis: Extract Page Structure with /inspect

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Programmatic Accessibility Analysis: Extract Page Structure with /inspect Accessibility audits usually mean manual testing: open DevTools, navigate the page structure, check heading hierarchy, verify semantic HTML. It's slow. It doesn't scale. What if you could extract a page's complete element map — headings, landmarks, form labels, ARIA attributes — as JSON? Then analyze structure programmatically in your pipeline. That's what PageBolt's /inspect endpoint does. The Problem: Manual Accessibility Review Current workflow: QA manually opens DevTools Inspects page structure Checks for heading hierarchy (H1→H2→H3) Verifies form labels are connected to inputs Looks for missing ARIA attributes Documents findings in a spreadsheet This works for small teams. It breaks at scale. You need automated analysis. The Solution: PageBolt /inspect Endpoint Extract a page's element map with one API call: const response = await fetch ( ' https://api.pagebolt.dev/v1/inspect ' , { method : ' POST ' , header

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