Product Updates

Changelog

What we've shipped, in reverse chronological order.

May 2026 — v1.0

Public launch

SweepHound is live. The first public release includes automated accessibility scanning, issue triage, remediation guidance, scheduled monitoring, accessibility statements, exports, shareable reports, webhooks, and authenticated page scanning.
Credits-based plans. Free and paid plans now use scanning credits, with optional top-up packs for larger audits.
Expanded documentation library. New guides cover WCAG, ADA, the EU Accessibility Act, manual review, scanner limitations, and platform-specific accessibility fixes.
Production readiness. Improved large-scan performance, signed asset access, safer outbound URL handling, rate limits, email delivery, and background worker reliability.

PDF and CSV exports. Branded reports with the full grouped issue list, code-level fix snippets, contrast suggestions, and platform hints.
Shareable reports. Generate a public, read-only URL for any scan. No SweepHound login required for viewers.
Embeddable badge. Add a live accessibility-score badge to your site. Updates automatically as you remediate.
Webhook notifications. HMAC-signed POSTs to a URL of your choice when a scan completes, with retry-and-backoff.
Page selection. Pick exactly which pages to scan, with per-page issue counts and credit estimates. Available on Growth and Agency.
Element overlays. Bounding-box highlight over the page screenshot for each violation, so you can see what's broken at a glance.

Authenticated scanning. Three methods: session cookie, login-form playback, and HTTP Basic Auth. “Preview signed-in pages” flow confirms what the scanner can reach before you start a real scan.
Subscriptions and billing. Free, Starter, Growth, and Agency plans with 7-day trials, multi-currency (USD and EUR), and a self-serve billing portal.
Accessibility statement generator. W3C-aligned HTML template auto-populated from your scan data, with a scoped automation caveat and a recommended manual follow-up section. Publish to a public URL or keep it private.
Email alerts. Scan-complete, scan-partial, and scan-failed emails with one-click unsubscribe.
In-app support. Threaded ticket chat with email follow-up when you have a new reply waiting.

Dual-engine scanning. axe-core plus IBM Equal Access run in parallel and dedupe results. Each engine has different blind spots; running both widens coverage meaningfully.
Code-level remediation. Detected issues include practical remediation guidance, with deterministic fixes where possible and manual-review guidance when automation cannot make the call.
Continuous monitoring. Schedule recurring scans (daily / weekly / biweekly / monthly). Regression alerts when violation counts trend the wrong way.
Per-site platform selection. Tag a site as Shopify, WordPress, Webflow, or other. Remediation suggestions adapt to the platform's template language and most common fix locations.
Cancel a running scan. Stop a scan at any point; partial results are kept and unused credits refunded.
Manual-review checklist. Every scan ships with a tailored checklist for the judgment-dependent issues automation cannot evaluate.