The record is the product
One scan is close to free. Dated evidence that a problem was found on a Tuesday and closed three weeks later is the thing an auditor asks for — and the thing you cannot produce after the fact.
European Accessibility Act · applies since 28 June 2025
Find what fails. Prove when you fixed it.
Skiplink checks your pages against WCAG 2.1 AA — the bar your site is held to today — and keeps a dated record.
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Why this is landing on your desk now
28 Jun 2025
The date the Act began to apply to new products and services placed on the EU market. It is behind us.
€100,000
The upper limit on a single penalty in Germany's implementing law. Each member state sets its own.
Under 10
Staff — and under €2m turnover. Both, not either. That is the whole microenterprise exemption for services.
WCAG 2.1 AA
Where the chain actually ends. Tools that report you against 2.2 are measuring you on a bar nobody is enforcing yet.
Sources: Directive (EU) 2019/882, Articles 4 and 31, and Annex I; Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG) § 37; EN 301 549 v3.2.1, clause 9. These describe the legal landscape, not your own exposure, and Skiplink does not give legal advice. See the full chain.
Evidence you can hand over
See what failed, by how much, and against which rule.
Most tools hand you a ratio. A ratio on its own settles nothing — the argument is always about what it was supposed to be. So every measurement Skiplink reports travels with the threshold it missed.
1.4.3 · Contrast (Minimum) · button.pay
1.9:1
measured against a required 4.5:1 Fails 1.4.3
1:121:1
Put your own colours in it
The same calculation the extension runs, running here in your browser. Nothing you type leaves the page.
On the page
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Or start from a pair we see a lot
The same rule holds everywhere. Touch targets are reported in pixels against the size they needed, and a check the engine could not decide is printed under Not covered by this audit instead of quietly leaving the total.
What your client is actually held to
The law points at one version of WCAG, and it is not the newest one.
Newer sounds safer, so teams report against WCAG 2.2 and quietly measure themselves on a bar nobody is enforcing. The chain from the law to the criteria is three links long and worth knowing before you buy anything.
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Directive (EU) 2019/882
The European Accessibility Act
Applies to new products and services placed on the EU market from 28 June 2025. It sets the obligation — it does not list a single check.
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EN 301 549 v3.2.1
The harmonised standard it points at
The version currently cited. This is the document an enforcement body and a procurement officer open, and its web chapter does not write its own rules.
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WCAG 2.1, level AA
Where the chain ends
Level A and AA together. Everything above resolves to this, which is why it is the number on every Skiplink report.
Counts are of the criteria Skiplink maps; a criterion with no reliable automated test is printed as a stated limit rather than a pass. When the cited version of EN 301 549 moves to WCAG 2.2, nothing about your account changes — the 2.2 findings are already in your history, so the record does not restart on the day the bar does. This is a description of how the documents reference one another, not legal advice.
What you get
Everything you need to show a client where the site stands.
Nothing has access to anything
The manifest lists no site. The extension is injected into the tab you are on when you press the button, and not before. Pages behind a login are audited in your own session; only findings leave the browser.
activeTab
scripting
storage
identity
no host_permissions for any website
Overlay detection
If an accessibility widget is on the page, Skiplink says so, then re-runs the audit with it disabled so you see the site underneath.
Watch a whole site, politely
Up to 500 pages from our side, one at a time. The crawler reads
robots.txt before anything else, honours
Crawl-delay however long it is, and identifies itself so
a site owner can recognise and block it.
Told only when something breaks
An email when a criterion starts failing, or a page stops loading. Not when a count creeps up on a problem you already know about — an alert that arrives every week is one nobody opens.
Yours to narrow, never in silence
Switch groups of checks off if your client only cares about some of them. Every audit then says which ones — on screen, in the export and on the shared report.
Marked on the live page
Numbered flags on the page itself, in the same order as the report. It ends the "which button did you mean" thread.
Works signed out
Audit, history, HTML and CSV export need no account. Sign-in exists for sharing and monitoring, and for nothing else.
What you pay for
The scan is free. The watching is the job.
A one-off scan is a commodity — the same engine ships inside Chrome's own developer tools, and we are not going to charge you for something you can already run for nothing. What nobody can do by hand is re-check a site every week for a year and know the Tuesday something broke.
“There are free tools. Why pay for this?”
You should use them. Lighthouse and axe DevTools run much the same checks this does, and detection is not what a plan is for. Three things a panel in your browser cannot do, though, however good it is:
- Tell you which bar you are held to. They report a mix of WCAG 2.2 and their own best practices. The law points at one version, and reporting yourself against a stricter one is how a passing site gets a failing report and a failing site gets an unusable one.
- Remember. A panel shows you today. It cannot say what was open in March, or when it closed — which is the question that actually gets asked, and the one that cannot be answered after the fact.
- Run when nobody opens it. Nothing re-checks fourteen client sites every week for a year by hand. That is the job, and it is the only thing on the right-hand column below.
Free, with no limit on it
- Audit any page, as often as you like
- Eight weeks of history, kept in your browser
- Findings marked on the live page
- HTML and CSV export
- Share a report — the link lives 30 days
- One site watched weekly, with email alerts
What a plan is for
- More sites on a schedule. An agency with fourteen clients cannot re-check them by hand, and that is the entire job.
- The record that outlives the link. Report links stop expiring, so the dated evidence is still there when someone asks for it a year later.
- Whole-site scans on a schedule. 500 pages, unattended, instead of on demand.
- Your name on the report. White-label output and one console across every client site.
The specifics
What it covers, in numbers.
70checks in the tag set, including the eight the engine ships disabled
8weeks of history behind every trend
500pages in a single site scan, at most
30days a shared report link stays alive
0cookies, trackers and analytics scripts
Where we draw the line
Six shortcuts we refuse to take.
These are settled. Changing any of them takes a written argument, because each one is somebody else's shortcut and all of them cost trust.
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No overlay widget
That category lost its reputation, and regulators increasingly read the presence of one as a signal that the site underneath was never fixed.
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We never tell you that you are conformant
Not on a screen, not in a report, not on this page. Automated checks cover part of WCAG and no honest tool can say more. A test in our build fails if that language ever appears.
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No code injected into your site
Skiplink finds the problem and tells you how to fix it. We do not touch your customer's site, ever.
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Nothing is skipped in silence
Eight checks ship disabled in the engine we build on; we turn all eight back on. Anything undecidable is printed as a stated limit rather than dropped from the total.
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We do not host your content
Only findings extracted from public pages are stored. The page markup is stripped before upload — in the extension, and again on the server.
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No manual audit service
You do the expert work; we give you the tool and the record. We are not quietly competing with your own consultants.
Security and privacy
Your client's markup never leaves the browser.
Stored
- URL, criterion code, CSS selector
- The measured value and its threshold
- Timestamps and a scan id
- Your account email and the address alerts go to
Never stored
- The markup of pages you audit
- Screenshots
- Anything behind a login
- Analytics, cookies, tracking of any kind
Data is stored in Frankfurt and mail is sent from Ireland. Both providers are US-incorporated, which is what standard contractual clauses exist for — we would rather write that sentence than one that sounds better and is harder to defend. Details on privacy and sub-processors. There is no cookie banner on this site because there is nothing to consent to.
Pricing
What it costs, and where the ceilings are.
A plan attaches to your account, and your account lives in the extension — so that is where you upgrade, from the screen that told you about the limit. Prices are per month, cancel any time, and the first fourteen days are refundable without a reason.
Available now
Free
$0
- Unlimited audits
- 3 whole-site scans a day, 150 pages each
- 1 site watched weekly
- Report links for 30 days
- HTML and CSV export
Available now
Team
$149 /mo
- 25 whole-site scans a day, 500 pages each
- 5 sites watched weekly
- Permanent report links
- Scheduled whole-site scans
Install it, sign in, and the upgrade is on the screen that tells you about a limit. Payment is handled by Polar, our reseller.
Available now
Agency
$399 /mo
- 100 whole-site scans a day
- Up to 25 sites watched
- White-label reports
- Client console
Install it, sign in, and the upgrade is on the screen that tells you about a limit. Payment is handled by Polar, our reseller.
The free tier is real and enforced today — the only thing it counts is watched sites. The paid tiers are not buyable yet; if one of them is what you need, say so and you will hear when it exists.
Where it runs
Catch it in the design. Prove it in the browser.
The same rules, at the two moments they are cheapest to act on: before a screen is built, and after it is live.
Browser extension
Audit the page you are on, mark the findings on it, watch the site weekly and share the report. Everything described above is this.
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Contrast, target size and alternative text checked on the frame, before anyone writes the markup. Designed, not built — we would rather say that than ship a button that does nothing.
In designOne message, from a person. Your address reaches our inbox and is kept nowhere else.
The part we cannot fake
Every screen here was audited by the engine we are selling you.
This site and the product are checked by Skiplink itself on every build — each page, at desktop and phone width, in light and in dark. A single error-severity finding anywhere fails the build, and a check we decide not to count has to be printed with the reason. Nothing you are reading shipped without passing that.
It is also how the contrast of this page's own captions got fixed: our own suggester returned the replacement. A company selling accessibility auditing that does not run its auditor over itself is telling you what it thinks the tool is worth.
The EAA has been in force since June 2025
Clients started asking. What do you tell them?
Enforcement began in 2026 and the first warnings have landed. If this has arrived on your desk, we would like to hear how you answer it today — and you get early access in return.