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A practical look at WAVE API, axe-core, Playwright, Pa11y, IBM Equal Access, and why a local scanner is the more honest foundation for A11Y CAT.

Why I built Cat Crawler, what it is good at, what it taught me, and the improvements I would make next.

What it takes to use agents without letting the work slip into vague claims, fake certainty, or sloppy release habits.

A plain account of where the project stands now, what it can actually prove, and where the limits still are.

Why the project started leaning harder on rules, release discipline, and explicit boundaries instead of good intentions.

Packaging, release handoff, and build cleanup stopped being side work once the project got big enough to ship properly.

This was probably inevitable. The only question was whether I was going to admit it early enough. By mid-April, A11Y Cat’s runtime had become too large…

These are the kinds of features that sound small until you try to make them useful on real pages without being annoying. Language, headings, and structure…

This was a big shift in what “tested” meant to me. There is a difference between testing that a tool runs and testing that it keeps…

A lot of the middle history is me adding more surfaces around the main scan because real review work kept asking for them. If I had…