What actually happens when you scan your site.
No black box. Here's exactly what gets checked, how the score is built, and what you get at each step.
1. We crawl the public pages of your site
You give us a URL — nothing else. We visit your homepage and follow links to other pages on the same domain, the same way a visitor would. We don't log in, we don't touch anything behind a password, and we don't ask for access to any internal system. We stay off pages your own robots.txt tells us to avoid, and we space requests out so we don't put load on your hosting.
2. Every page is checked against WCAG 2.1 AA
WCAG 2.1 AA is the specific standard named in the ADA Title II rule for public entities and the standard courts use in accessibility litigation. We check things like:
- Color contrast between text and its background
- Whether images have meaningful alternative text
- Whether forms have labels a screen reader can announce
- Keyboard access — can every control be reached without a mouse
- Heading structure and page landmarks
3. Every linked PDF and Word document gets inventoried
Agendas, minutes, budgets, forms — we find every PDF and DOCX linked from your site and check whether it has a structure a screen reader can navigate, whether it declares a language, and whether it's a scanned image with no text at all (the single worst case, and a common one). This is the part general website scanners usually skip.
4. You get a score, then a choice
The score blends page-level findings with document tagging into one number out of 100. The free result shows your score and the headline numbers. The full report — available after you leave your email — breaks every finding down in plain English, ranked by what to fix first, in a format you can hand to a board or a developer.
What this isn't
Taggora runs an automated screening against WCAG 2.1 rules. It flags likely issues quickly, but it doesn't replace a manual review and it isn't a certification of compliance — no automated tool can promise that.
An automated scan typically catches a meaningful share of WCAG issues, but not everything — things like whether alt text is actually meaningful, or whether a complex table reads in a sensible order, need a person to check. We'll tell you that plainly instead of selling you a number that implies more than it means.