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Accessible Web Bot

Name: Accessible Web Bot
Author: Accessible Web

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Accessible Web Bot crawls customer websites to discover pages and monitor for accessibility violations on regular basis. Crawls are initiated for Accessible Web's "Page Monitoring" SaaS product. Operated by Accessible Web.

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Assessment

Accessibility

What is Accessible Web Bot?

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.

Identification

Bot name

Accessible Web Bot

Operator

Accessible Web

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.

Block or allow Accessible Web Bot

Block it

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: /

Allow & verify

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