The best accessibility bugs are the ones that never ship. By adding accessibility scanning to your CI/CD pipeline, you catch violations at the pull request stage — before they reach production and before they affect real users.
Why CI/CD for accessibility
Manual testing catches issues, but only when someone remembers to do it. Automated scans on every deploy create a safety net that's always on. Your accessibility score becomes a tracked metric, regressions trigger alerts, and developers get immediate feedback on their changes.
Setting up xsbl with GitHub Actions
xsbl provides a GitHub Actions workflow that triggers a scan after every push to main or successful deployment. The workflow calls the xsbl API with your site ID, receives the scan results, and writes a summary to the GitHub Step Summary — visible on every workflow run.
You can configure a score threshold (e.g. 70) and optionally fail the build when the score drops below it. This prevents accessibility regressions from shipping. The setup takes about 2 minutes: create an API key in xsbl settings, add two repository secrets, and commit the workflow file.
Going further
For teams that want tighter integration, xsbl's bulk fix API can be called from CI to automatically create fix PRs when new violations are detected. Combined with Slack alerts, your team gets notified the moment a regression is introduced, along with a ready-to-merge PR that fixes it. The goal is a development workflow where accessibility is not an afterthought but an automated guardrail — like type checking or linting.