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crawlie v0.5.3

· by Sean Ryan

crawlie can see your accessibility problems now — and it won’t let them hide inside your SEO score.

Added

  • Accessibility pillar (WCAG). Seven new checks for the accessibility bugs lurking in your markup: links and buttons with no accessible name (hello, icon-only buttons), form fields with no label, iframes with no title, zoom-blocking viewports, positive tabindex, and skipped heading levels. No rendering or contrast guesswork — just the failures that are decidable from the HTML, so no false alarms.
  • A separate Accessibility score — a third number out of 100, on purpose. Accessibility problems don’t drag down your technical-SEO score, and SEO problems don’t hide your accessibility ones. It shows in the CLI, the JSON (a11yScore), the HTML report, and as a third score ring in the desktop app.
  • Accessibility in history and diffs. Saved reports and crawl-over-crawl comparisons track the a11y score too, so you can watch it climb over time — in the CLI, the diff_reports MCP tool, and the desktop compare view.

That’s crawlie up to 57 checks across SEO, GEO and accessibility.