Your First Scan
Walk through creating, running, and reading your first accessibility scan end-to-end.
Your First Scan
This is the 5-minute end-to-end walkthrough. You'll create a scan, wait for it to finish, and interpret the report.
Prerequisites
- A TestKase account with access to the Accessibility product. (Sign up at testkase.com if you don't have one.)
- A public URL you want to scan. A known-accessible site works great for a demo — try your own marketing page.
Step 1 — Open the Website Scanner
- Go to
accessibility.testkase.com. - From the sidebar, click Website Scanner.
- Click the New Scan button in the top right.
Screenshot (TODO): Website Scanner list with New Scan button highlighted
Step 2 — Add a URL
- Type a URL into the input (
example.com/works; protocol is auto-added). - Press Enter or click Add page.
- The URL appears in the list below. You can add up to 10.
The scan name is auto-suggested from the first URL's domain. Edit it if you want a more descriptive label.
Step 3 — (Optional) Adjust settings
Click the ⚙ gear icon next to Add page to open Scan Settings.
- Scan version — defaults to WCAG 2.1 AA. Change it if you need to test against a different standard.
- Advanced rules — leave on (default).
- Best practices — leave off unless you want non-WCAG UX checks.
- Needs review — leave on to catch items that require manual verification.
- Authentication — skip for now; see Authenticated scanning when you're ready.
Click Done to close settings.
Step 4 — Start the scan
Click Create Scan. You'll see a toast confirming the scan is queued, and the browser redirects you to the scan list.
The scan status progresses: pending → running → completed. One URL typically takes 30–90 seconds.
Step 5 — Open the report
When the row shows completed, click it.
The report has five layers — top-down, from summary to element detail:
- Accessibility score (0–100) and a severity breakdown.
- WCAG conformance matrix — pass / fail / incomplete per criterion.
- Issue list, grouped by rule or by WCAG criterion.
- Issue detail when you click a single issue — rule description, failure summary, HTML snippet, target selector.
- Page snapshot with the failing element highlighted in a red outline.
Screenshot (TODO): Completed report with score, severity pills, and issue list
Step 6 — Export or share
From the report header:
- Export as PDF, CSV, or JSON.
- Share with team — if you've created an accessibility team, share the scan for team members to see and comment.
Full details:
What to do next
- Run a scan against a page behind a login — see Authenticated scanning.
- Try the Workflow Analyzer to catch issues that only appear during an interaction — see Workflow analyzer.
- Install the free Chrome Toolkit for one-click scans from DevTools — see Chrome Toolkit.
