Feature request: Add limited government domain scanning option for accessibility

[mgifford]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We'd like to be able to provide government clients with more aggressive domain-wide scanning tools. This might just involve triggering a limited purple hats scan.

Describe the solution you'd like
We build a simple but usable site to offer free scans of government sites by the public sector.

We could use purple hats to generate an html scan of say 1000 pages of the domain and fire off a report of identified problems in a nice HTML format.

We should also add some other basic scanning like for https or malware.

We follow up with a link to the report and information on how we can help them.

A simple HTML for would be embedded into the site, but on submit it would POST to another server with the limited information that it has gathered. This will trigger some basic scanning and an email.

Describe alternatives you've considered
There are open source tools to do this, but many in government won't have access to set them up on their machines or in their network.

[grugnog]

@mgifford I think it would probably be necessary to incorporate robots.txt and probably also some rate limiting into the scanning tool, to avoid a scanner from being banned (or accidentally DoSing sites) - from a cursory review it doesn't appear that purple hats does this now.

[mgifford]

I added that issue here MSU-NatSci/DomainAccessibilityAudit#19 & GovTechSG/purple-a11y#21

There is also this big issue in both
MSU-NatSci/DomainAccessibilityAudit#16 & GovTechSG/purple-a11y#22

Neither project seems that active. I suspect that a simple HTML export of errors from PurpleHats would be a better deliverable for a 100 page scan.