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Build a Website Accessibility Scanner Using Python

Scans a webpage for common accessibility issues like missing alt text, headings, labels, and landmarks using only Python.

accessibility a11y html

Python

import requests
from urllib.parse import urljoin
from html.parser import HTMLParser
import re

class AccessibilityParser(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.images_without_alt = []
        self.missing_headings = True
        self.has_main_tag = False
        self.label_for_inp…

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Convert DOCX to Text by Unzipping XML in Python

Extract plain text from a .docx file by unzipping the container and parsing word/document.xml with regex, using only Python's standard library.

docx zipfile xml

Python

import zipfile
import re
from pathlib import Path

def docx_to_text_unzip_xml(docx_path: str) -> str:
    """Extract plain text from a .docx file by unzipping and parsing document.xml."""
    docx_path = Path(docx_path)
    if not docx_path.exists():
        raise FileNotFoundError(f"File not found: {docx_path}")

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How to Run Tesseract OCR from Python with subprocess

This script uses Python's subprocess module to invoke the Tesseract OCR engine from the command line and return the extracted text.

subprocess ocr tesseract

Python

import subprocess

def ocr_image(image_path):
    command = ["tesseract", image_path, "stdout"]
    result = subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True, text=True)
    return result.stdout.strip()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Stub: call the actual tesseract (must be installed)
    text = ocr_image("sample.png")
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