Accessible Web Bot

GoodBotVerifiedAccessibilityBOT

Operated by Accessible Web Docs

What is Accessible Web Bot?

Generated from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

AccessibleWebBot is operated by Accessible Web and is designed to identify accessibility issues on websites. It primarily scans sitemaps for newly added pages and performs periodic checks on pages specified by users in the Accessible Web RAMP platform. The bot uses a headless Chrome browser and identifies itself with a specific user-agent string, which includes a link to Accessible Web's bot information page. Website owners can verify the bot's authenticity by checking the IP address against the accessiblewebbot.com domain.

Helpful — It identifies accessibility issues, helping website owners improve compliance.

Details

Bot Name
Accessible Web Bot
Slug
accessible-web-bot
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified by Cloudflare
Category
Accessibility
Operator
Accessible Web

User-Agent Patterns

AccessibleWebBot

Full User-Agent Strings

User-Agent 1Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; AccessibleWebBot/1.0; +https://accessibleweb.com/bot/) HeadlessChrome/81.0.4044.0 Safari/537.36
User-Agent 2Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AccessibleWebBot/1.0; +https://accessibleweb.com/bot/)

Main Use Cases

Scanning sitemaps for new pagesPeriodic accessibility checksUser-requested scans via Accessible Web RAMP

Why It Crawls Your Site

AccessibleWebBot crawls websites to discover and report accessibility issues, ensuring websites are compliant with accessibility standards. It scans sitemaps to detect new pages and performs periodic checks based on user configurations in the Accessible Web RAMP. The data collected is used to notify website owners of potential accessibility problems, allowing them to address and improve the accessibility of their sites. Website owners can verify the bot by checking the IP address against the accessiblewebbot.com domain and can control the bot's behavior by managing their sitemap settings in the Accessible Web RAMP.

How to Block / Whitelist

Block Accessible Web Bot

Add a Disallow rule for AccessibleWebBot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Accessible Web Bot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: AccessibleWebBot
Disallow: /

# Allow Accessible Web Bot full access
User-agent: AccessibleWebBot
Allow: /

Whitelist Accessible Web Bot

Ensure your robots.txt allows AccessibleWebBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Accessible Web's documentation.

Traffic & Trends

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Links & References

Accessible Web Documentation

accessibleweb.com

Cloudflare Radar: Accessible Web Bot

radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/bots/accessible-web-bot

Data Sources

This profile was compiled from the following sources:

CloudflareRadar

Last updated: May 26, 2026