Finds age gates that Ofcom does not count as highly effective — self-declared 18+ checkboxes, date-of-birth forms, localStorage-only memory — in your HTML. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Same engine as the VS Code extension, byte for byte.
This page is the working piece. The full pack has everything below.
8 rules for Ofcom's highly effective age assurance duty, in force since 25 July 2025, where the penalty ceiling is £18m (£18 million) or 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue. One sample vape
A freelance web developer bills about $60/hour; a manual pass over one storefront's gate plus the written note is roughly half a day, near $240.
Buy the full version — $29It reads the HTML file you have open, inline script included, and names every part of your age gate that Ofcom's guidance does not count as highly effective: self-declared tick boxes, typed birth dates, passes kept in localStorage, year-long cookies, and restricted markup uncovered by a class toggle. Each finding carries a line number and the clause it fails.
Web developers and agency teams shipping UK storefronts for vapes, alcohol, gambling, knives or adult content, and anyone maintaining an age gate written before July 2025. If your gate makes its decision in the browser rather than on the server, this names every place that decision leaks.
A general validator checks syntax, not Ofcom's age assurance guidance, and a chatbot cannot see your repository or hand you line numbers you can act on. Age Gate Lint carries the eight rules as code, so the same page gives the same answer on every run and for every reviewer.
Free checks the file you have open and finishes that job: all eight rules, every finding, line numbers and clauses, no key asked. The paid version runs the same engine across every HTML file in the workspace in one pass and writes a dated evidence report you keep and can hand over.
A freelance web developer bills about $60 an hour, and reading one storefront's gate and writing the note is roughly half a day, so near $240 per site and again after each redesign. The extension is $29 once, with a seven-day full refund, and re-runs cost nothing.
One question, answered by the person who built it. Your email only if you want the answer sent.