YandexAccessibilityBot

Name: YandexAccessibilityBot
Author: Yandex

Accessibility

Verify YandexAccessibilityBot IP Address

Verify if an IP address truly belongs to Yandex, using official verification methods. Enter both IP address and User-Agent from your logs for the most accurate bot verification.

YandexAccessibilityBot is a crawler operated by Yandex to evaluate websites for accessibility and usability compliance. It scans pages to assess factors such as semantic structure, text alternatives, contrast, and navigability for assistive technologies. The insights gathered help Yandex improve accessibility-related features and guidance within its products. This bot does not perform full search indexing and does not directly influence Yandex search rankings. It ignores the global robots.txt user agent (*) rule. Crawl activity is generally lightweight and focused on representative pages rather than comprehensive site-wide crawling. As per Yandex, it sends up to 3 requests to the site per second. The robot ignores the setting in Yandex Webmaster. RobotSense.io verifies YandexAccessibilityBot using Yandex’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine YandexAccessibilityBot traffic is identified.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexAccessibilityBot/3.0; +http://yandex.com/bots)

Robots.txt Configuration for YandexAccessibilityBot

Robots.txt User-Agent:YandexAccessibilityBot

Use this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target YandexAccessibilityBot.

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for YandexAccessibilityBot:

User-agent: YandexAccessibilityBot
Allow: /

Completely Block YandexAccessibilityBot

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: YandexAccessibilityBot
Disallow: /

Completely Allow YandexAccessibilityBot

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: YandexAccessibilityBot
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

User-agent: YandexAccessibilityBot
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

User-agent: YandexAccessibilityBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/

Set Crawl Delay

Limit how frequently YandexAccessibilityBot can request pages (in seconds):

User-agent: YandexAccessibilityBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

Note: This bot does not officially mention about honoring Crawl-Delay rule.