UserWay comparison
UserWay vs accessibilitywebsite.com: $588 a year for a widget, or $199 for the fix
UserWay is one of the most widely installed accessibility widgets on the web, and its Pro tier lists at $588/year. If a widget is all you need, it is a capable one. But a widget is a runtime layer: it changes what the browser paints, not what your repository contains. This page compares the two products on the thing an auditor or a plaintiff's expert will actually look at — whether the underlying page conforms.
- accessibilitywebsite.com
- $199/yr
- 1 site · no traffic limits
- UserWay
- $588/yr
- Pro widget tier
No credit card to scan · cancel anytime · 30-day money-back
Why teams move off UserWay
Per-criterion findings, not a score
UserWay's scanning at the widget tier is partial and summary-level. We map every finding to the exact WCAG 2.2 success criterion and the element that fails it, so a developer can act without re-deriving the diagnosis.
Built for the people who ship the code
We include a REST API and a GitHub Action that fails your pipeline on new WCAG regressions and posts findings in the pull request. That is not part of UserWay's widget tiers, and it is the difference between fixing a backlog once and never regressing again.
One third the annual price
$199/year against $588/year for the Pro widget tier — and ours has no monthly-visit metering, plus PDF and document remediation, keyboard and screen-reader testing, and VPAT 2.5 reporting included.
accessibilitywebsite.com vs UserWay, feature by feature
| Capability | accessibilitywebsite.com$199/yr1 site · no traffic limits | UserWay$588/yrPro widget tier |
|---|---|---|
| Live assistive widget & reading profiles | Included | Included |
| AI WCAG 2.2 scanner with per-criterion findings | Included | Partial or paid add-on |
| Copy-paste code fixes & AI alt text | Included | Not included |
| Continuous monitoring & regression alerts | Included | Partial or paid add-on |
| Developer API, CI/CD & GitHub PR checks | Included | Not included |
| PDF & document remediation | Included | Not included |
| Keyboard & screen-reader testing | Included | Not included |
| Multi-language, RTL-ready widget | Included | Partial or paid add-on |
| VPAT 2.5 & audit-ready reports | Included | Partial or paid add-on |
| No traffic / pageview metering | Included | Not included |
| Fixes source code, not just a runtime overlay | Included | Not included |
| No fake 'instant compliance' badge | Included | Not included |
UserWay pricing reflects its lowest published annual plan as of June 2026 and may change. Entry tiers from the major widget vendors are metered by monthly traffic; our Starter plan has no traffic limits. Compared on list price and publicly documented features.
Is a widget enough to satisfy WCAG or the ADA?
An overlay is JavaScript that rewrites your page in the visitor's browser. Your HTML never changes, so the next audit — or the next demand letter — finds the same failures. Worse, plaintiff firms now specifically cite overlay usage as evidence a site was never remediated, and screen-reader users have publicly objected to overlays interfering with the assistive tech they already use. We ship the same kind of assistive widget, because it genuinely helps some visitors, but we never let it stand in for the fix. Every finding comes with the failing element, the exact WCAG 2.2 success criterion, and a copy-paste code change your developer applies to the source.
UserWay alternatives: your questions, answered honestly
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