Honest accessiBe alternatives
Three honest alternatives to accessiBe: a real WCAG scanner, manual auditing with a specialist, and a dedicated platform like Deque.
If you are looking for an alternative to an accessibility overlay, this page lays out three honest paths — a productized scanner (us), a specialist consultancy, and an enterprise platform like Deque — with their trade-offs.
Why teams pick us
- Real code-level fixes — your engineers ship the change, not a browser-side script.
- Honest scoring with 'needs manual review' for what we cannot verify.
- VPAT and accessibility statement generated from your actual scan.
- Monitoring and regression alerts as your site evolves.
- SMB pricing ($29–$299/mo) — no enterprise contract.
Where they're stronger
- Overlays install in one line and require no engineering capacity.
- Overlays remain a frequently chosen option when there is genuinely no engineering bandwidth — though the trade-offs documented by the accessibility community apply.
Side-by-side comparison
Alternative
- EAA Compliance Scanner
- EAA Compliance Scanner
- Overlay tools
- Other options
Approach
- EAA Compliance Scanner
- Scan + plain-English fix list + VPAT, you ship the fix
- Overlay tools
- Specialist audit, enterprise platform, or overlay
Cost
- EAA Compliance Scanner
- $0 free / $29–$299 per month
- Overlay tools
- Consulting fees, enterprise contracts, or overlay subscription
Time to first result
- EAA Compliance Scanner
- Under 60 seconds for a one-page scan
- Overlay tools
- Days to weeks for an external audit; minutes for an overlay install
Honest scope
- EAA Compliance Scanner
- We never claim to make you EAA-compliant by checkbox
- Overlay tools
- Verify any compliance claims against the vendor's own documentation
FAQ
- What is wrong with overlays?
- Overlay tooling has been widely discussed in the accessibility community. The core observation is that overlays modify pages at runtime in the user's browser without changing your source. We recommend reading the published critiques and vendor documentation and forming your own view.
- When is a specialist consultant the right answer?
- When you need a manual audit with screen-reader user testing, an accessibility roadmap, or remediation services. Automated scanning never replaces that work — we are explicit about this in every report.
- Can I combine alternatives?
- Yes, and many teams do. A common pattern: use our scanner for fast feedback and monitoring, hire a specialist once for a full manual audit, and skip the overlay entirely.
How we wrote this comparison
We do not make defamatory claims about competitors. Where critiques exist in the broader accessibility community, we point readers to those sources rather than restating claims we cannot verify ourselves.
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Competitor descriptions reflect publicly available information from each vendor's marketing site at the time of writing. We avoid claims we cannot verify; rerun the comparison if a vendor changes their offering.
