# mcp-axe

> MCP plugin for accessibility testing using Axe-core

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-axe/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Manoj Kumar
- version: 0.1.6
- license: MIT License
        
        Copyright (c) 2025 Manoj Kumar
   …
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-axe

### Description (declared)

# mcp-axe

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# 🧪 mcp-axe: Accessibility Testing Plugin using Axe-core

`mcp-axe` is an MCP-compatible plugin for automated accessibility scanning using Deque's [axe-core](https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core). It supports 
both **Selenium** and **Playwright** engines and provides a CLI and FastAPI interface for scanning URLs, 
raw HTML content, and batches.

## 📦 Installation

### PyPI
You could use mcp-axe from pypi package
`https://pypi.org/project/mcp-axe/`

## API Usage
Clone this repo and install in editable mode:

```bash
#optional
#git clone https://github.com/yourname/mcp-axe.git
#cd mcp-axe

python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .
```

### MCP Client

If you install direct from pip The configure Claude as below

```bash
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "axe-a11y": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["-m", "mcp_axe"],
      "cwd": "."
    }
  }
}
```
If you are on development mode then configure claude as below
```bash
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "axe-a11y": {
      "command": "/path/to/.venv/bin/python",
      "args": ["-m", "mcp_axe"],
      "cwd": "/path/to/mcp-axe"
    }
  }
}
```

## CLI Usage

### Scan a URL
```bash
mcp-axe scan-url https://broken-workshop.dequelabs.com --engine selenium --no-headless --save --output-json --output-html
```

### Scan a local HTML file
```bash
mcp-axe scan-html path/to/your/file.html --browser chrome --no-headless --save --output-json --output-html
```

### Batch scan multiple URLs:
```bash
mcp-axe batch-scan "https://broken-workshop.dequelabs.com,https://google.com" --engine selenium --browser chrome --headless --save --output-json
```

### Summarize a saved report:
```bash
mcp-axe summarize report_selenium_chrome.json --output-json --save
```

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- infra.browser-automation (1, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-axe/ (first seen 2026-09-10T00:23:51.512Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-axe/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-axe · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-axe