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The only public,\nreachable, non-GitHub-API surface for the compiled list of rules is the **rendered HTML**\npage at `https://act-rules.github.io/rules/` (trailing slash required — matching the\nsame style of other static-site hosts already in this corpus), which returns HTTP 200\n`text/html` — there is no JSON rendering of this same listing anywhere on that host.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nDespite being a W3C-chartered, heavily machine-consumed standard (ACT rules back\nautomated accessibility testing tools), there is no first-party JSON API or data file for\nthe rule catalog at all — only 94 individual markdown sources in a GitHub repo and one\nrendered HTML page. 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