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PRIVACY.md

Privacy Policy — WCAG Scanner

Last updated: 6 July 2026

The short version

Nothing you do ever leaves your device. No data is transmitted, sold, stored remotely, or shared with anyone — including us.

Details

  • On-device processing of website content. To scan a page, the extension reads that page's content (text, images, hyperlinks) locally in your browser — this is necessary to check it against WCAG accessibility rules. This reading never transmits, stores remotely, sells, or shares that content; it exists only transiently in your browser tab to produce the results shown to you. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no error reporting, and no account.
  • All processing is on-device. Accessibility scanning runs inside your browser using the bundled axe-core engine. AI features (explanations, suggestions) run on Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano model, entirely on your machine. The extension makes no network requests of its own. The only exception: if you use "Suggest alt text", the extension fetches the image you clicked on — from the website you are already viewing, using your existing session — solely to show it to the on-device model. That image is not stored or transmitted anywhere else.
  • Page access. The extension reads a page's content only when you press Scan on that page, solely to check it against WCAG accessibility rules. Results are shown to you and to no one else.
  • Local session memory. Your latest scan results are kept in Chrome's session storage so closing the side panel doesn't lose your work. This memory never leaves Chrome, is not written to disk by the extension, and is automatically cleared when you close your browser.
  • Reports (the copyable report, fix requests) are generated locally and go only where you paste or save them.
  • Third-party code. The extension bundles the open-source axe-core engine (Deque Systems, MPL-2.0). It runs locally and transmits nothing.

Changes

If a future version ever changes any of the above, this policy will be updated and the change will be stated plainly in the version changelog before release.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent through the developer contact channel listed on this extension's Chrome Web Store page.

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