Over the years I have not only been advising and consulting but also building software products of my own. Below you will find the projects I am actively developing and maintaining.
Compliance Beacon
Automated Accessibility Scanning & AI-Driven Compliance Insights
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) will require most digital services to meet WCAG 2.1 standards by June 2025. For many businesses — especially smaller e-commerce shops — the practical question is not whether to comply, but how to even start. Traditional accessibility audits are expensive, slow, and hard to repeat. That is exactly the gap Compliance Beacon fills.
Compliance Beacon is a SaaS platform I have designed and built from scratch. It automates the process of scanning websites for accessibility violations using the industry-standard axe-core engine, running headless Playwright browsers against live production URLs. What makes it different from a simple audit tool is the AI layer: every violation is explained in plain language and accompanied by a concrete code fix suggestion, generated by LLMs and tailored to the user’s actual source code.
What It Does
- Automated Scanning — Point it at a domain and it discovers linked pages, scans them, and delivers a compliance score with detailed findings.
- AI-Powered Explanations — Each violation gets a human-readable explanation of why it matters and a code suggestion showing how to fix it. No more deciphering cryptic rule IDs.
- Scheduled Monitoring — Set up weekly automated scans (Starter and Business tiers) so you know immediately when a deployment introduces a regression.
- PDF Reports — Export audit-ready reports for stakeholders, clients, or regulatory documentation.
- Shopify Integration — A dedicated plugin for Shopify merchants that connects via the Partner API for a seamless in-admin experience.
Technology
The stack reflects the DevOps and automation principles I advocate in my consulting work: Node.js with Express, PostgreSQL, Playwright for browser-based scanning, and Anthropic Claude for AI analysis. The frontend is built with React and Tailwind CSS, deployed on Hetzner infrastructure with automated CI/CD via GitHub Actions.
Compliance Beacon is live and available at beacon.crossoverdevelopment.de.