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Hey HN,

After years of building websites, I got hit with an accessibility complaint. I spent months learning WCAG, scanning my sites with every tool out there, and hating every one of them. They all generated massive PDF reports that sat in a shared drive collecting dust. So I built my own.

AccessGuard scans your site for WCAG 2.2 issues and generates production-ready code fixes for every one of them - not documentation links, not vague recommendations, actual code you can copy-paste and deploy.

What makes it different:

  - AI-generated code fixes for every issue
  - Scans JavaScript-rendered pages via headless Chrome, so React/Vue/Angular
    SPAs work out of the box
  - Prioritizes issues by lawsuit risk, not just WCAG severity
  - Smart grouping - no 500-issue reports, just the issues that matter
  - AltWizard: drag-and-drop AI alt text generator for images
The regulatory urgency is real - the EU Accessibility Act took effect June 2025 and ADA digital lawsuits hit 5,100+ in 2025 alone.

Tech stack for the curious: Rails 8, Ruby 3.4, PostgreSQL, Hotwire (no JS framework), Vanilla CSS (no Tailwind), Ferrum for headless Chrome scanning, Solid Queue/Cache/Cable (everything on Postgres, no Redis), Kamal for deployment, ImportMap (no Node build step).

Free tier: 3 scans, no credit card required.

https://getaccessguard.com

Happy to answer questions about the scanner architecture, the checker methodology, or the AI fix generation.


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