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mcp-accessibility-scanner MCP Server

MCP server for automated web accessibility scanning with Playwright and Axe-core.

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Published as mcp-accessibility-scanner on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

34 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Can we support Authenticated Login in this MCP Server

I'll give url, username and password and want to capture all url's and scan each page and return results. Can we add this enhancement ?

Read the thread · 2025-05-19 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Extension relay drops onDetach reason and tears down the tab on involuntary target_closed detach (upstream playwright#42221)

Upstream change

Read the thread · 2026-08-20 · closed · 2 comments

browser_evaluate throws _evaluateFunction is not a function on every call (removed in playwright-core 1.59)

Small bug report: browser_evaluate throws on every call (page- and element-scoped alike) with receiver._evaluateFunction is not a function. The other tools (browser_navigate, browser_take_screenshot, browser_snapshot, ...) all work fine.

Root cause

src/tools/evaluate.ts:

const receiver = locator ?? tab.page as any;
const result = await receiver._evaluateFunction(params.function);

Upstream Playwright removed _evaluateFunction from playwright-core's client API

Read the thread · 2026-06-19 · closed · external user · 2 comments

[Feature Request] Add Docker support for containerized deployment

Currently, the repository requires a local environment setup to run the MCP server. While this works for local development, it can lead to issues and make it difficult to deploy the server in cloud environments or via orchestration tools. I would like to propose adding a Dockerfile to the project to streamline the setup process.

Proposed Changes :

I am happy to submit a Pull Request for this. My plan is to:

  • Create a multi-stage Dockerfile to keep the final image size small.
  • Add a .dockeri

Read the thread · 2026-02-27 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Is there any paramters to help to control playwright.

Hi. Still use this MCP in langGraph with react Agent to do the web accessibility test.

Always get exceptions like:

Image

I just wondering if it's possible to provide some parameter to control playwright. Like the timeout for waiting or navigating. Or enable headerless mode and other functions.

Thank you.

Read the thread · 2025-09-25 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Most recent

audit_screen_reader reports missing-accessible-name on links and buttons whose text is in a child element

Ran audit_screen_reader on a site I maintain and got 14 missing-accessible-name hits on links that are clearly named. Boiled it down to this:

<a href="/docs"><strong>Docs</strong></a>
<button><span>Save</span></button>

Both get reported as "exposes no accessible name". Chrome's own accessibility tree names the link "Docs", and a plain page.ariaSnapshot() prints - link "Docs". VoiceOver reads them fine.

What's going on: the tool uses ariaSnapshot({ mode: 'ai' }), and since

Read the thread · 2026-08-29 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Track upstream Playwright: [aria-hidden] annotations in AI aria snapshots (blocked on Playwright bump)

Upstream

What changed upstream

page.ariaSnapshot({ mode: 'ai' }) now marks elements that are visually present but excluded from ARIA queries (e.g. `getByRol

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · closed · 0 comments

MCP 2026-07-28: drop the deprecated Roots dependency (only consumer is the session-log path)

Part of the MCP 2026-07-28 stateless migration (SEP-2577).

Problem

Roots is now Deprecated, on a minimum twelve-month offramp. The suggested migration is to pass directories via tool parameters, resource URIs, or server configuration instead.

Roots is threaded through four files here:

  • src/mcp/server.ts:111-123 — on initialized, if the client

Read the thread · 2026-08-09 · closed · 0 comments

MCP 2026-07-28: ping heartbeat will close healthy connections once ping is removed

Part of the MCP 2026-07-28 stateless migration (SEP-2575).

Problem

The revision removes ping from the protocol, along with logging/setLevel and notifications/roots/list_changed.

The heartbeat here does not merely use ping — it treats a failed ping as fatal:

  • src/mcp/server.ts:93-96 — started lazily on the first tools/call when `runHea

Read the thread · 2026-08-09 · closed · 0 comments

MCP 2026-07-28: browser state needs an explicit server-minted handle

Part of the MCP 2026-07-28 stateless migration (SEP-2567).

This is the long pole of the migration. Everything else in the stateless set is mechanical; this one is a design change.

Problem

Unlike a stateless API wrapper, this server owns a real browser. State is built once at connection time and implicitly scoped to it:

  • `src/browserServerBack

Read the thread · 2026-08-09 · closed · 0 comments

MCP 2026-07-28: HTTP transport is keyed on the removed Mcp-Session-Id header

Part of the MCP 2026-07-28 stateless migration (SEP-2567).

Problem

Session identity is threaded through the entire HTTP request path:

  • src/mcp/http.ts:63 — const streamableSessions = new Map<string, StreamableSessionInfo>()
  • src/mcp/http.ts:71 and src/mcp/http.ts:82 — routing branches on !!req.headers['mcp-session-id']
  • `src/mcp/http.t

Read the thread · 2026-08-09 · closed · 0 comments

MCP 2026-07-28: handshake gate deadlocks every request once initialize is removed

Part of the MCP 2026-07-28 stateless migration (SEP-2575).

Problem

Both request handlers in createServer block on initializedPromise:

  • src/mcp/server.ts:70-71 — the promise is created, with initializedPromiseResolve captured
  • src/mcp/server.ts:83 — tools/list does await initializedPromise
  • src/mcp/server.ts:91 — tools/call does

Read the thread · 2026-08-09 · closed · 0 comments

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