About AuditWandBot
If you found this page, you probably saw AuditWandBot/0.1 (accessibility scanner; +https://auditwand.com/bot) in your server logs. Here is what it is and how to control it.
What it does
AuditWandBot is the crawler behind AuditWand, an accessibility scanning service. It visits a website’s public pages the way a browser does and runs automated accessibility checks (based on axe-core) on what it finds. It only scans a site when an AuditWand customer has added that site to their account, typically the site’s owner or their agency checking their own work.
How it behaves
- It reads and honors your robots.txt, including rules addressed to
AuditWandBotspecifically. - It never attempts logins, never submits forms, and skips WordPress admin and login paths by default.
- It fetches a bounded number of pages per scan (plan-limited, small) rather than crawling exhaustively.
- It sets no cookies of its own and collects nothing about your visitors.
How to block it
Add this to your robots.txt and AuditWandBot will not scan your site:
User-agent: AuditWandBot Disallow: /
Questions or concerns
If AuditWandBot is doing something on your site you did not expect, or you believe someone scanned your site without authority, email [email protected] and we will investigate. Security issues: [email protected].