I Built a Free Accessibility Auditor That Actually Passes Its Own Audit

Most free accessibility tools have an accessibility problem. WAVE is a browser extension with no keyboard-only workflow. Lighthouse runs in Chrome DevTools, a tool screen reader users navigate with workarounds. axe DevTools free tier gives you findings with no WCAG mapping unless you pay. I'm a CIS student in Grand Rapids, MI doing freelance web accessibility work on the side. I needed a tool I could actually use in client engagements — structured output, WCAG-mapped findings, severity grouping — without paying $200/month for a platform. So I built one. What It Does The MAS Accessibility Audit Toolkit is a free, open-source desktop GUI built in Python and Tkinter. Paste a URL, click Run Audit, get a structured findings report in under 60 seconds. It currently runs 14 WCAG 2.1 AA check modules: Alt text detection Heading structure (h1 count + descent order) Form label association Language attribute presence Tabindex abuse (positive values) Empty links and empty buttons Autoplay media de