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WattShed Conform
Live, self-serveCatch the mechanical accessibility misses before the audit does.
Conform runs the mechanical accessibility pass every public program surface should survive before a human auditor sees it: images without alt text, inputs without labels, links with nothing to read, heading levels that jump, duplicate ids, and their kin. Paste the markup and the checks run in the browser. It is a deliberate subset: passing everything here is not conformance and says nothing about contrast, focus order, or how the page renders. It exists to catch the misses that never should have reached the audit.
What it does.
Checks pasted markup against eight mechanical accessibility rules, each reported with counts and samples.
Treats valid patterns correctly: decorative empty alt text passes, hidden inputs are exempt.
Handles a full page or a fragment, and says which rules do not apply to a fragment.
States its limits on the report: a subset of accessibility guidance, not conformance.
Runs in the browser on pasted markup. Nothing fetched, nothing stored.
Who it is for.
Utilities and public program administrators
Meet the accessibility bar public program surfaces carry, starting with the misses a machine can catch.
Program web teams
Run the mechanical pass on every form change instead of rediscovering the same misses at audit time.
Funders reviewing a partner surface
Paste a page and see in seconds whether the basics are in place.
How it works.
Paste the markup
A full page source or a fragment. Nothing is fetched from anywhere.
Run the checks
Eight mechanical rules, each with counts, samples, and its exemptions applied correctly.
Fix, then audit
Clear the mechanical misses, then take the surface to the real audit this does not replace.
What it does, and what it deliberately does not.
Conform does
Finds the mechanical accessibility misses in pasted markup
Conform does not
Does not claim conformance or evaluate contrast, focus, or rendering
Conform does
Runs locally on what you paste
Conform does not
Does not fetch pages or store markup anywhere
Availability.
The accessibility check is live today as a public self-serve tool, no account required, nothing stored. Accessibility review of a program's full surface is arranged with WattShed directly.
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