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Run axe-core Accessibility Audits via REST API — No Browser Setup Required
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Run axe-core Accessibility Audits via REST API — No Browser Setup Required

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Run axe-core Accessibility Audits via REST API — No Browser Setup Required Your website has WCAG 2.1 violations. You don't know because running accessibility audits requires either hiring auditors (expensive, slow) or running axe-core locally (infrastructure overhead). PageBolt's /audit endpoint runs accessibility checks on any URL via REST API. No browser setup. No infrastructure. One API call. The Accessibility Audit Problem Manual auditing (hiring professionals): Cost: $5,000–15,000 per audit Timeline: 4–6 weeks Scope: Single snapshot in time ROI: By the time report arrives, code changed Self-hosted axe-core (running locally): Setup: Browser management, Node.js dependencies Scaling: Infrastructure for concurrent audits Maintenance: axe-core updates, Chromium patches Time: 5–10 seconds per URL (fresh browser startup) API-based auditing (PageBolt /audit): Cost: $0.01–0.05 per audit at scale Timeline: <1 second per URL Scope: Audit on every deploy, every staging push, continuously ROI:

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