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Shadow

Accessibility researcher

The sneaky one. Looks where nobody looks: colour contrast, missing image descriptions, form labels and the edge cases that lock real people out. Checks against WCAG 2.2 AA. One of the four research cats behind every Clikiti scan.

Shadow is the mascot of one of the four automated agents in every Clikiti scan. The research itself is run and edited by people at Clikiti, led by Javier Alcivar. Meet the whole team.

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Inside Clikiti ResearchNews

Meet Clikiti Research: open data on how small-business websites treat the people who use them

Most people meet a local business through its website first, yet almost nobody measures those websites in the open. Clikiti Research does: 20 reports and 3,210 websites so far, free to use under CC BY 4.0. Here is why we do it, where it is going, and how to work with us.

Oct 16, 2026 · 4 min

Three illustrated cats in white lab coats study a wall covered in hundreds of website screenshots, sticky notes and red string, while a black cat in a stealth suit and night-vision goggles drops from a ceiling vent on a rope to grab a glowing folder of secret data

The Clikiti Research Brief

One stat. One pitch. Every Tuesday.

A finding from our scans, what it means for the agencies selling to that industry, and the line to open a pitch with. Free.