How Wexlo works
A scan is one measurement, at one moment. Accessibility does not stop there: every release can undo what was fixed. So Wexlo runs a cycle that keeps going (establish, hand off, re-test, record), and the customer portal is where those four come together. The scan is one of them. No installation, no widget, no access to your codebase needed.
You give us a URL
The free scan covers one page. On a paid plan you register your domains and we crawl up to 100 reachable pages per scan, on desktop and mobile viewports.
The rule engine scans
A real browser loads each page and runs axe-core against WCAG 2.1 A and AA, the technical basis of EN 301 549, the European standard for accessible ICT and in practice the route to meeting the European Accessibility Act. The rule engine alone decides what counts as a finding.
Every finding becomes a fix
Per finding you get the rule, the WCAG criterion, the impact level, the CSS selector, a plain-language explanation, and a concrete fix suggestion: actual markup, ARIA, or CSS. Summaries and explanations are AI-drafted and marked as such; findings are not. That package is what you hand to your own developer or your web agency; we do not fix for you, we re-test what you had fixed.
You get evidence, on a schedule
Reports come as HTML and PDF, in your own language, with a draft accessibility statement hosted at a stable, linkable page; or embed it directly on your own site as a ready-to-use HTML fragment. On the Agency plan you pick the language(s) per domain, with all four (EN/NL/FR/DE) included. Scheduled re-scans (monthly, weekly, or daily by plan) catch regressions and verify that fixes stayed fixed. Your customer portal holds the whole series side by side: every scan, the delta against the previous one, and the statement that keeps pace.
That is the cycle as Wexlo runs it. Who runs it inside your organisation (who fixes, who signs off, who keeps the record) is on For companies.
Where the work lives
The scan is one step; the portal is where the rest happens
Between two scans this is where the work happens: what is new, what your agency resolved, and what still needs checking by hand. And when a customer, an auditor or a regulator asks where you stand, the answer is already there. You are not reconstructing it from tickets, emails and loose scans.
Customer portal · one domain
your-company.com- 12 Mar · scan #149 resolved3 to verify by hand2 new
- 5 Mar · scan #136 resolved5 to verify by hand
- 26 Feb · scan #124 resolved7 to verify by hand1 new
- 19 Feb · scan #110 resolved11 to verify by hand
- Log
- when each finding was found, handed off and re-tested
- Statement
- automated test results updated on 12 Mar
One site, one clock per country
Article 13(4) of the EAA asks the same thing in every member state: report your own non-conformity immediately, describe it, and describe what you are doing about it. What differs is how each country wrote that down: the deadline, the authority, and whether a route to report yourself exists at all. The Netherlands is the only country that turns it into a repair-or-report rule, where fixing it inside the deadline means you do not have to report.
| Market | Deadline | Route to report yourself |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 week (critical and serious)1 month (moderate and minor) | yes |
| Sweden | 14 daysfrom regulator guidance, not from the law itself | yes |
| Belgium | immediately, with no number in the law | an addressee, but no prescribed form |
| Germany | immediately, with no number in the law | general contact form only |
| France | immediately, with no number in the law | yes |
| Rest of the EU | 5 working days(Lithuania) | not establishedsource not yet verified |
What this means for you
Your shortest deadline is 1 week, and it applies in the Netherlands. You have to meet all of them, because there is no single desk that handles the other countries for you. In practice you work towards the shortest.
What a finding looks like
Finding
WX-0142
Criterion
WCAG 1.4.3
contrast, minimum
The checkout button label measures 2.9:1 against its background, below the 4.5:1 required for normal text.
button.checkout-cta > spanDarken the gray. Same design language, passing contrast:
S: under an hour, one CSS change
Illustrative example, not from a customer site.
What this does and doesn't cover
| Coverage | Criteria |
|---|---|
| 2 criteria, fully automated | 2 |
| 28 criteria, partially automated | 28 |
| 20 criteria, need human review | 20 |
Automated scanning finds roughly 30 to 50% of real accessibility issues. Independent testing by the UK Government Digital Service put the best single tool at 41%; Deque, which makes the scanner we use, reports 57% on its own data. We stay with the lower estimate. Today's scanner tests 30 of the 50 WCAG 2.1 AA criteria automatically, in full or in part. Every report states which criteria were tested automatically and which require manual review, so you know exactly where a human needs to look. No automated scanner can certify legal compliance. And the Act asks for more than a website. Grouped the way we read it, it puts nine obligations on you: a measurement feeds two of them, and the other seven are decisions and records that no tool makes for you.
The W3C, the body behind the WCAG guidelines, says so itself: "no tool alone can determine if a site meets accessibility standards. Knowledgeable human evaluation is required to determine if a site is accessible." That is why the matrix above separates, per criterion, what the machine tests from what a human needs to review. That human review is not part of the scan. It is a separate, paid step: the manual verification.
Source: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, Test & Evaluate (updated 1 August 2023)
Think a finding is wrong?
The rule engine (axe-core) decides what counts as a finding, not us and not the AI, so results are reproducible. If you think a finding is wrong or doesn't apply, email us. The report always names the exact rule and CSS selector, so it's easy to check.
See it on your own site
Start with one page for free and see what comes out, or read what a plan covers and what it costs.