diff --git a/requirements/edx/base.txt b/requirements/edx/base.txt
index 6ac8b882b5..41e6b3fa8f 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/base.txt
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ nose-exclude
 nose-ignore-docstring
 nose-randomly==1.2.0
 nosexcover==1.0.7
-pa11ycrawler==1.6.0
+pa11ycrawler==1.6.1
 pep8==1.5.7
 PyContracts==1.7.1
 python-subunit==0.0.16