Lighthouse 360 vs. WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lighthouse 360
Score 7.7 out of 10
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Lighthouse 360 is a dental practice management software acquired by Yodle, then by Web.com in 2016, and then again by Henry Schein in March 2019.N/A
WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
Score 5.4 out of 10
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WAVE is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. The vendor, WebAIM who offers WAVE as a free suite of tools, states their philosophy is to focus on issues that they know impact end users, facilitate human evaluation, and to educate about web…
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Pricing
Lighthouse 360WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
Editions & Modules
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WAVE API Credits 10000+
$0.25
per credit
WAVE API Credits 1000-9999
$0.3
per credit
WAVE API Credits 250-999
$0.4
per credit
Offerings
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Lighthouse 360WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Lighthouse 360WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
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Features
Lighthouse 360WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
Accessibility Testing
Comparison of Accessibility Testing features of Product A and Product B
Lighthouse 360
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Ratings
WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
5.7
1 Ratings
17% below category average
Accessibility Scanning and Assessment00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Issue Ranking00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Manual Auditing Services00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Compliance Reporting and Tracking00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
HTML and CSS scanning00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Color/Contrast Analysis00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Lighthouse 360WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(2 ratings)
5.4
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Lighthouse 360WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
Likelihood to Recommend
Henry Schein
Truly love and appreciate the templets that we can use to send out office specific emails - Also the openings on a schedule notifications are great to get the schedule full - we use it daily!
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WebAIM
This is pretty middle of the road. It does a good job of picking out some of the low-hanging fruit, but it's not going properly evaluate semantic structure and will pop several false positives. Additionally, the tools are incomplete. For instance, the contrast editor will allow you to test your colors with sliders so you can get the closest color that passes; however, that isn't how color palettes work, you generally don't get to change a companies palette without a lot of pain; furthermore, there is no ability to adjust the font-size and both font-size AND color are used to determine contrast requirements. Oh, and they use points VS pixels...nobody is using points on the web even if the ADA uses them in their fairly dated guidelines. Text from the actual contrast editor "Text is present that has a contrast ratio less than 4.5:1, or large text (larger than 18 point or 14 point bold) has a contrast ratio less than 3:1.". 14pt = 18.66 pixels, so I can see their logic even if I don't agree with it
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Pros
Henry Schein
  • templates for email campaigns
  • minimal glitches
  • good customer service
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WebAIM
  • Provides report of errors for you
  • Explains what needs to be fixed so you know why
  • Shows the errors next to each item on your website so you can see which one they mean
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Cons
Henry Schein
  • The overall cost for the basic is great, it is all the extras that make it more expensive - we have a few locations so it is not horrible and we use what we pay for to the fullest.
  • The only real down fall is the time lapse - it pulls every 30 minutes from the server, I wish it was more real time as sometimes we have an opening that has already been filled and someone still gets a notification of an opening
  • We can only text so many words to a patient in response or trying to send a notice - which isn't that big of a downfall.
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WebAIM
  • Sometimes the automated functions miss things or are mis-triggered
  • I would like it to link out to more in-depth reading on issues and resolving them
  • I would love it if it generated a PDF report to send people.
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Alternatives Considered
Henry Schein
Lighthouse does not offer as many features as NexHealth which is why we are making the switch to NexHealth currently. Solutionreach was not as good as Lighthouse.
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WebAIM
For this, I'm speaking specifically to the Siteimprove browser plugin. The Siteimprove plugin: Allows to filter on guideline level Catches a few more errors than WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool, but comes pretty close But, both do a great job in all other aspects WebAIM shines in its simplicity of overlaying of errors and warnings on the page. I think its real benefit is a lower learning curve on understanding how to use the tool
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Return on Investment
Henry Schein
  • Keeping our schedule is a huge success
  • Keeping our patients informed of our office specifics is another area of success
  • Love how easy it is to respond to a patient regarding a text
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WebAIM
  • It has led us to be more inclusive and accessible in our website
  • We have more website visitors
  • We have had positive comments about our website in terms of being accessible
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