diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json
index dc9fcb2..a08508e 100644
--- a/frontend/package.json
+++ b/frontend/package.json
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
     "@types/styled-components": "4.1.18",
     "husky": "^3.0.0",
     "lint-staged": "^9.2.0",
+    "react-axe": "^3.2.0",
     "tslint": "^5.18.0",
     "tslint-config-security": "^1.16.0",
     "tslint-eslint-rules": "^5.4.0",
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Sidebar.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Sidebar.tsx
index 9258cb2..02366bc 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Sidebar.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Sidebar.tsx
@@ -385,7 +385,11 @@ class SidebarImpl extends React.Component<ISidebarProps, ISidebarState> {
   private renderRobotsTxtState = () => {
     return (
       <NonIdealState
-        icon={<span>🤖</span>}
+        icon={
+          <span role="img" aria-label="robot">
+            🤖
+          </span>
+        }
         title="No data"
         description="This instance was not crawled because its robots.txt did not allow us to."
       />
diff --git a/frontend/src/index.tsx b/frontend/src/index.tsx
index 09a7ed6..d73f70b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/index.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/index.tsx
@@ -29,3 +29,9 @@ ReactDOM.render(
   </Provider>,
   document.getElementById("root") as HTMLElement
 );
+
+if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production") {
+  // tslint:disable-next-line:no-var-requires
+  const axe = require("react-axe");
+  axe(React, ReactDOM, 5000);
+}
diff --git a/frontend/yarn.lock b/frontend/yarn.lock
index 1e395df..204a699 100644
--- a/frontend/yarn.lock
+++ b/frontend/yarn.lock
@@ -2093,6 +2093,11 @@ aws4@^1.8.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/aws4/-/aws4-1.8.0.tgz#f0e003d9ca9e7f59c7a508945d7b2ef9a04a542f"
   integrity sha512-ReZxvNHIOv88FlT7rxcXIIC0fPt4KZqZbOlivyWtXLt8ESx84zd3kMC6iK5jVeS2qt+g7ftS7ye4fi06X5rtRQ==
 
+axe-core@^3.0.0:
+  version "3.3.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/axe-core/-/axe-core-3.3.0.tgz#3b32d7e54390d89ff4891b20394d33ad7a192776"
+  integrity sha512-54XaTd2VB7A6iBnXMUG2LnBOI7aRbnrVxC5Tz+rVUwYl9MX/cIJc/Ll32YUoFIE/e9UKWMZoQenQu9dFrQyZCg==
+
 axobject-query@^2.0.2:
   version "2.0.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/axobject-query/-/axobject-query-2.0.2.tgz#ea187abe5b9002b377f925d8bf7d1c561adf38f9"
@@ -8831,6 +8836,14 @@ react-app-polyfill@^1.0.1:
     regenerator-runtime "0.13.2"
     whatwg-fetch "3.0.0"
 
+react-axe@^3.2.0:
+  version "3.2.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-axe/-/react-axe-3.2.0.tgz#d17427e5d54d6c4561e74ad9cf8c1839e411bde3"
+  integrity sha512-2KlO2wZq58+GSFP4oWA2ZjU1ggbXdDLJc7tMUXUXkE4NVQ3FftdYtb7qNR+x1nTLeuVYiH4nH4hzIz9vQZ/Chw==
+  dependencies:
+    axe-core "^3.0.0"
+    requestidlecallback "^0.3.0"
+
 react-dev-utils@^9.0.1:
   version "9.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-dev-utils/-/react-dev-utils-9.0.1.tgz#5c03d85a0b2537d0c46af7165c24a7dfb274bef2"
@@ -9306,6 +9319,11 @@ request@^2.87.0, request@^2.88.0:
     tunnel-agent "^0.6.0"
     uuid "^3.3.2"
 
+requestidlecallback@^0.3.0:
+  version "0.3.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/requestidlecallback/-/requestidlecallback-0.3.0.tgz#6fb74e0733f90df3faa4838f9f6a2a5f9b742ac5"
+  integrity sha1-b7dOBzP5DfP6pIOPn2oqX5t0KsU=
+
 require-directory@^2.1.1:
   version "2.1.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/require-directory/-/require-directory-2.1.1.tgz#8c64ad5fd30dab1c976e2344ffe7f792a6a6df42"