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Web Crawler

Also known as: Spider, Web Spider, Web Scraper

An automated program that systematically browses the World Wide Web by following links from page to page, collecting and indexing content. In accessibility, web crawlers are used as part of large-scale automated accessibility evaluation platforms to collect web pages for analysis against accessibility standards like WCAG or eMAG. By combining crawlers with accessibility checkers, organizations can monitor compliance across entire domains or government web ecosystems rather than evaluating one page at a time.

Category: technology · automated testing · Web Development

Related: Automated Accessibility Testing · Accessibility Evaluation Framework · WCAG-EM

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