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Accessibility TestingGetting Started

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

  1. Go to accessibility.testkase.com.
  2. From the sidebar, click Website Scanner.
  3. Click the New Scan button in the top right.

Screenshot (TODO): Website Scanner list with New Scan button highlighted

Step 2 — Add a URL

  1. Type a URL into the input (example.com/ works; protocol is auto-added).
  2. Press Enter or click Add page.
  3. 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: pendingrunningcompleted. 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:

  1. Accessibility score (0–100) and a severity breakdown.
  2. WCAG conformance matrix — pass / fail / incomplete per criterion.
  3. Issue list, grouped by rule or by WCAG criterion.
  4. Issue detail when you click a single issue — rule description, failure summary, HTML snippet, target selector.
  5. 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.