Set up monitoring & alerts
Compliance is not a one-time milestone — it slips every release. Monitoring re-scans your sites on a cadence you choose and emails you when something regresses. This page walks you through enabling a monitor, choosing a cadence, and what each alert means.
How to enable monitoring
- Open the site in your dashboard and choose "Monitor this site."
- Pick a cadence — daily, weekly, or monthly. Daily is best for high-traffic landing pages; weekly is the sensible default for most product surfaces.
- Confirm the email we'll send alerts to (it's your account email by default).
- We schedule the next scan for the cadence you chose. You can pause or change the cadence any time without losing history.
- After the first monitored scan completes, future re-scans diff against it; alerts only fire when something regresses.
What we alert on
- New issue — A WCAG violation appeared on a page that was clean (or didn't have this issue) on the previous scan. We deduplicate by rule, so you get one email per regression — not one per element.
- Score drop — The page's 0–100 accessibility score fell by at least 10 points compared to the previous completed scan. The email includes the before/after numbers so you can decide how urgent it is.
- Scan failed — We couldn't complete the scheduled scan — typically because the page went down or returned a non-2xx. We'll retry on the next cycle automatically.
Pausing or turning alerts off
Per-site, you can pause the monitor (the row stays so re-enabling later remembers the cadence) or turn just the email alerts off while keeping the schedule running. You can also unsubscribe from any alert email — that link is in every message we send.
What's in the email
The alert email contains the site label, the kind of regression (new issue / score drop / failed scan), the score delta if relevant, and links back to your dashboard and to alert preferences. It never includes raw HTML, selectors, screenshots, secrets, or any content from the scanned page.
