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SweepHound

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About SweepHound

SweepHound exists because most accessibility tools oversell and underdeliver.

The market is full of products that promise “full compliance” from a single line of JavaScript, sell overlay widgets that paper over real problems, or use scare tactics about lawsuits to push expensive annual contracts. Users with disabilities are not better served. Site owners get a false sense of security. Nobody wins except the vendor.

Mission

Honest accessibility auditing. No overlays, no compliance theater. Code-level fixes, not badge-washing.

We believe that real accessibility improvement comes from changing your actual code — fixing the HTML, updating the CSS, restructuring the DOM. Not from injecting a widget that tries to rewrite the page at runtime and breaks half the time. SweepHound tells you exactly what is wrong, shows you the code that needs to change, and gives you the fix you can commit.

What We Do

  • Dual-engine scanning — We run both axe-core and IBM Equal Access against your pages. Two engines catch more than one, and cross-referencing results reduces false positives.
  • Code-level remediation — For every violation, we generate a concrete fix: the specific HTML change, the CSS update, the ARIA attribute that needs adding. Not a generic recommendation — an actual code diff.
  • Monitoring for regressions — Accessibility is not a one-time audit. We rescan your sites on a schedule, compare results, and alert you when new violations appear or fixed issues regress.
  • Authenticated page scanning — We can scan behind login forms and cookie walls, so your dashboard and member areas get the same scan scope as your public pages.

What We Don't Do

  • Sell overlays or widgets — We will never offer a JavaScript snippet that claims to “fix” accessibility at runtime. Overlays do not work, and they often make things worse for assistive technology users.
  • Claim WCAG conformance from automated testing alone — Automated tools — including ours — only check what can be evaluated programmatically. SweepHound generates recommended manual follow-up, but it does not perform manual review or determine WCAG conformance.
  • Scare you into buying — We do not send unsolicited “your site has 847 violations” emails designed to panic you into a purchase. If you want a scan, you run it yourself.

Open Source Acknowledgment

SweepHound's scanning capabilities are built on two exceptional open source projects:

  • axe-core by Deque Systems, licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. axe-core is the most widely adopted accessibility testing engine in the world.
  • IBM Equal Access by IBM, licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Equal Access provides complementary automated rules and catches issues that axe-core does not flag.

We are grateful to both teams for their work making the web more accessible. Our contribution is the remediation layer on top: turning detected violations into actionable, code-level fixes.

The Honesty Contract

SweepHound flags many common accessibility issues automatically and generates recommended manual checks for key pages and user flows. Every scan report separates automated findings from follow-up areas that need human judgment.

We will not certify your site as “compliant.” We are not a certifying body and we are not lawyers. What we will do is help identify many common issues automatically, give you the code to fix confirmed findings, and monitor for regressions so you do not slide backwards.

Get in Touch

Have questions, feedback, or just want to say hello? Reach us at contact@sweephound.com.