Cybr: accessibility and web quality scans
Enter a URL and Cybr scans the site page by page. You get an accessibility score, a pass or fail release gate, and every issue with its severity, the WCAG criterion it relates to, why it matters and how to fix it. Scan a live site online, or use offline mode.
What Cybr does
- Accessibility score
- A score out of 100, broken down into Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust, with counts by severity.
- Release gate
- A clear pass or fail against severity thresholds, with the reasons listed.
- Accessibility flags
- Images missing alt text, links and buttons without accessible names, unlabelled form controls, missing H1s, skipped heading levels, missing main landmarks, untitled iframes and duplicate IDs.
- Metadata gaps
- Pages missing a title, description, viewport setting or language.
- Image size flags
- Hero, content, thumbnail and icon images over their size budgets, with WebP compression recommended.
- Top fixes by impact
- The fixes that affect the most pages, so you know where to start. Broken links and failed requests are listed too.
Why it matters
- Every accessibility issue fixed makes a site usable by more people, including those who rely on screen readers and other assistive technology.
- Search engines favour accessible, well-structured sites.
Good to know
- Automated scans find a portion of accessibility issues, not all of them. Whether alt text is meaningful or a page makes sense with a screen reader still needs a person.
- Some sites use redirects or restrictions that stop a scan returning results.
- Only scan sites you have permission to test.
Questions
What does the release gate mean?
It turns the scan into a simple pass or fail: for example, no critical or high-severity issues and medium issues under a threshold. The reasons for a fail are listed underneath.
Is a clean Cybr scan a WCAG conformance claim?
No. It means the automated checks found nothing. Manual testing is still needed for the criteria that require human judgement.
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