Includa review
A privacy-focused local scanner with WCAG audits, reports, and CI build gating.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Includa is an open-source website accessibility scanner for teams that want to audit entire sites locally. It crawls pages from sitemaps, robots.txt, and same-host links, then checks them against WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 with axe-core. The product suits developers, accessibility specialists, and website teams that prefer local operation without telemetry or cloud accounts. Windows, macOS, and Linux desktop software is available, alongside a command-line interface for CI workflows.
Its strongest advantage is coverage across site structure and remediation work. Includa groups repeated issues across pages and templates, which can make recurring problems easier to prioritize. CMS-aware analysis supports major content-management platforms, while screenshots, selectors, and AI-ready remediation prompts add context to reported findings. A live multi-project dashboard provides an overview across projects, and exports are available in static HTML, JSON, and CSV formats. CI build gating can return exit codes for critical and serious issues, making accessibility checks part of a build process rather than a separate review step.
Includa is a focused choice for local, repeatable website audits, especially when privacy and source-code access matter. Its open-source model and broad desktop support make it suitable for teams that want control over where scans run and how reports are handled. The main qualification is product maturity: Includa is labeled Alpha and not production ready. Teams needing a production-ready accessibility platform should consider an alternative, while teams comfortable with an early-stage tool may value its whole-site crawling, WCAG 2.2 coverage, CMS-aware analysis, and CI gating in one local package.
Includa pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Whole-site crawling with WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 audits
- Local operation without telemetry or cloud accounts
- CI build gating, deduplicated issues, and flexible report exports
- Where it doesn't
- The product is labeled Alpha and not production ready
- Desktop software is limited to Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Its scope centers on scanning rather than broader accessibility management
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