Axe MCP Server

If you already use Axe, the axe mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. Official MCP server for Axe DevTools for Web.

What the server does

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Deque Systems is the trusted leader in digital accessibility.

• analyze — Scan web pages for accessibility using axe
• remediate — Get AI-powered, code-level guidance to fix accessibility issues (with which coding agents can perform automatic source code remediation)

Installation

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client.

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

• analyze — Scan web pages for accessibility using axe
• remediate — Get AI-powered, code-level guidance to fix accessibility issues (with which coding agents can perform automatic source code remediation)
• MCP — compatible client (Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, etc.)
• Email — helpdesk@deque.com
• LinkedIn — Deque Systems

Credentials and setup notes

• Docker - Subscription to Axe DevTools for Web - axe MCP Server API key (get your API key here) - MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, etc.) > Note: Requires a paid Axe DevTools for Web subscription.

Worth knowing first

• It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
• Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Where it fits

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Axe's toolset — analyze, remediate, MCP and 2 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by dequelabs; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

This entry was verified against Axe's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.