Allow the Ascent Accessibility scanner

If a scan came back "blocked", your site's bot protection is stopping our scanner. Follow the steps below to allow it, then rescan.

Our scanner identifies as AscentAccessibilityBot/1.0 (+https://accessibility.ascent.partners/bot) and crawls from 8.217.215.101.

robots.txt

Add our scanner to your robots.txt so it is allowed to crawl.

User-agent: AscentAccessibilityBot
Allow: /

Add a WAF skip rule for our User-Agent so Cloudflare lets the scanner through.

# Security → WAF → Custom rule → Skip
# Field: User Agent — Operator: contains — Value: AscentAccessibilityBot
# Action: Skip (or Allow)

Allow requests from our User-Agent at the server level.

# Allow the Ascent Accessibility scanner
location / {
    if ($http_user_agent ~* "AscentAccessibilityBot") {
        return 200;
    }
}

For an extra signal, add your verification token to your site so we can confirm you authorized the scan. Your token is on the scanner identity page and your account page..

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