AI coding assistants are helping developers write software faster than ever before. Claude Code alone was producing approximately 195 million lines of code every week for more than 115,000 developers as of mid-2025.
Those are impressive numbers, but volume alone isn’t enough. Your team also needs to make certain the code they’re shipping is accessible so they can meet compliance requirements, ensure your product can be used by everyone, and reduce costly rework down the line. As AI accelerates development, accessibility testing has to keep pace or accessibility debt can accumulate quickly.
Since launching Axe MCP Server, we’ve been working to make our industry-leading accessibility testing as seamless as possible. These latest updates expand what your developers can test directly inside their IDEs, streamline remediation workflows, and make it easier for engineering organizations to adopt accessibility testing at scale.
Let’s look at what’s new with the Axe MCP Server in Axe DevTools for Web.
Increase automated accessibility coverage of complex accessibility issues without leaving your workflow
Automated accessibility testing helps teams catch issues earlier in the development workflow and reduce manual effort. However, some of the most complex accessibility checks have traditionally required guided or manual testing.
With the latest Axe MCP Server updates, your developers can now automate even more accessibility testing directly inside their coding workflows. We’ve added support for Automated Intelligent Guided Tests (IGTs), beginning with the keyboard IGT, with plans to continue expanding automated IGT coverage. We’ve also added advanced rules that automatically test for issues like heading semantics, focus indicators, text contrast, and decorative images.
Governance is also supported with these new capabilities. Admins can enforce things such as WCAG level, and even confidence threshold for advanced rules across users to ensure consistency across the organization’s outputs.
These enhancements increase automated coverage, reduce even more manual effort, and make it easier than ever for your team to adopt accessibility testing seamlessly into their processes and reduce late-stage, costly rework.
Test more of your application—including authenticated experiences
Many accessibility issues don’t exist on public landing pages. They occur inside authenticated user flows, dynamic interfaces, and interactive application states that traditional page scans often miss because they don’t have access.
The Axe MCP Server now enables your developers to test these more complex experiences directly from their IDE. With support for cookie injection, developers can inject session- or environment-specific cookies before navigation to test authenticated experiences, staging environments, or feature-specific builds from the very first page request. By expanding testing beyond public pages, teams can evaluate accessibility across the parts of an application users actually interact with every day.
The result is more complete accessibility coverage and greater confidence that issues aren’t being overlooked because they exist behind a login or within dynamic content.
Make accessibility testing easier to adopt across your organization
Even the most powerful developer tools won’t deliver value if they’re difficult to install, authenticate, or maintain.
To simplify adoption, the Axe MCP Server can now be installed and run locally using npx, eliminating the need for Docker and allowing your developers to start testing within minutes.
Developers can now authenticate via OAuth 2.0 instead of manually managing an API key. Credentials are stored securely, Axe MCP Server access is handled automatically with short-lived tokens, and API keys remain available for teams that prefer them.
These improvements reduce setup time for developers while making it easier for platform and engineering teams to roll out accessibility testing consistently across your organization and deliver more accessible experiences at scale.
Accelerate remediation with more targeted workflows
New scoped scanning allows you to target individual components or specific regions of a page, making testing more focused and relevant to the task at hand, and eliminating the need to sort through results from the entire application. Additionally, the Axe MCP Server can also optionally return a viewport screenshot to your agent so you can see what was scanned.
We’ve also introduced batch remediation, providing guidance to your AI agent on how to remediate up to 25 accessibility issues in a single request rather than requiring separate requests for each issue.
Together, these capabilities reduce repetitive work, streamline remediation workflows, and help your developers resolve accessibility issues faster with fewer interruptions.
Bring AI-assisted accessibility testing to secure enterprise environments
Many enterprise organizations can’t deploy SaaS-based tooling because of security, compliance, or infrastructure requirements.
The Axe MCP Server now allows on-prem customers to use an LLM they manage to access AI features, allowing your organization to bring industry-leading accessibility testing into your existing development environments without changing your deployment strategy.
This gives enterprise teams the flexibility to adopt modern AI-powered accessibility workflows while meeting the organization’s security and compliance requirements.
Make accessibility a seamless part of AI-assisted development with the Axe MCP Server
These latest Axe MCP Server enhancements are designed around a simple goal: helping engineering teams integrate accessibility into your AI development workflows without slowing you down.
By increasing automated accessibility coverage, expanding testing to authenticated experiences, simplifying adoption, accelerating remediation, and supporting enterprise deployment models, Axe MCP Server helps your teams catch more accessibility issues earlier, resolve them faster, and confidently build accessible software as you develop with AI.
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