Is Accessibility Insights for Web safe?
Launches Accessibility Insights for Web with a keyboard shortcut in Chrome.
This extension provides access to Accessibility Insights for Web from the browser toolbar or the default Ctrl+Shift+K shortcut. The store listing also provides links to Microsoft-hosted information, privacy policy, third-party notices, and license details.
Who publishes itMicrosoft - 46 other listings from the same operator, 10 of them carrying a finding
Microsoft - 46 other listings from the same operator, 10 of them carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same operator - 46 listings
Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.46.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Store data in your browser
storage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Accessibility Insights for Web contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- go.microsoft.com
Accessibility Insights for Web sends data to go.microsoft.com. 6 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- aka.ms
Accessibility Insights for Web sends data to aka.ms. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- microsoft.github.io
Accessibility Insights for Web sends data to microsoft.github.io. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.