AccessSparkBot

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Accessibility auditor for AccessSpark. Renders authorized pages, checks them against WCAG 2.2, honors robots.txt. Operated by Inner Spark Media, LLC.

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Assessment

SEO

What is AccessSparkBot?

AccessSparkBot is the dedicated crawler for the AccessSpark platform, developed by Inner Spark Media, LLC. It functions by rendering web pages in a real browser environment to execute comprehensive accessibility audits using axe-core and proprietary rulesets. The bot is designed to be respectful of server resources, operating at a low volume and adhering to standard crawling etiquette to ensure it does not negatively impact site performance.

Helpful — It performs non-intrusive, low-volume accessibility audits to help site owners identify and fix compliance issues.

Identification

Bot name

AccessSparkBot

Operator

Inner Spark Media, LLC

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Yes

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls websites specifically to evaluate their adherence to WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards, providing site owners with actionable data to improve inclusivity. It processes HTML, CSS, and the rendered DOM to identify barriers for users with disabilities. Site administrators can verify the authenticity of the bot through its support for Web Bot Auth (RFC 9421) and by checking the public key directory hosted on the AccessSpark domain.

Block or allow AccessSparkBot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for AccessSparkBot 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 AccessSparkBot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: AccessSparkBot
Disallow: /

# Allow AccessSparkBot full access
User-agent: AccessSparkBot
Allow: /