Website Responsibility Scanner is a tool for checking websites from a broader responsibility perspective.
Visit it at https://cfhack2026-wrs.github.io/wrs-frontend/
It currently focuses on two areas:
Accessibility, to highlight barriers that may make websites harder to use for many people
Sustainability, to show how website choices such as large pages, unoptimized assets, or unnecessary scripts can increase digital weight and resource use
Instead of only showing technical warnings, Website Responsibility Scanner is intended to make these topics more understandable for everyday website owners, teams, and decision makers.
Many existing tools are either highly technical, limited to one area, closed source, or difficult to understand without specialist knowledge.
Website Responsibility Scanner exists to make responsible website checks more open, more understandable, and more practical. It is designed to help people get a clearer picture of what is happening on a website and where improvements can make a difference.
The project treats accessibility and sustainability as connected parts of better web development. In many cases, clearer structure, lighter pages, and more thoughtful design decisions can improve both.
Website Responsibility Scanner is being built to scan a website and turn the results into clear and useful feedback.
On the accessibility side, the project is based on established web accessibility principles and automated checks that can help identify common issues. On the sustainability side, it looks at factors such as page weight, scripts, images, caching, and other technical elements that affect how heavy a website is to load and use.
The goal is not just to detect issues, but to explain them in plain language and make next steps easier to understand.
Website Responsibility Scanner is currently in an early MVP stage.
The current focus is on building the foundation for a tool that can:
- scan a website through a simple interface
- report on accessibility and sustainability
- explain findings in plain language
- document what each check means and why it matters
- remain open source and self hostable The longer term direction is modular. New checks and additional topic areas are planned over time, so the project can grow well beyond its current starting point.