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UserWay Accessibility Widget vs. WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    UserWay Accessibility Widget

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AUserWay ensures that websites, apps, and digital documents more readily comply with accessibility regulations, such as WCAG 2.1 AA, WCAG 2.2, EN 301-549, EAA, ADA, and Section 508.

    $49

    per month

    WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AWAVE 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…

    $0

    Pricing
    UserWay Accessibility WidgetWAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Pricing Offerings
    UserWay Accessibility WidgetWAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    UserWay Accessibility WidgetWAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
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    UserWay
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    WebAIM
    Chose WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
    The other tools would be a little better than WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool. They do require you to pay for their services but offer more support on a daily basis so I would say it would be worth the money. However, I could not go ahead with the websites because they …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    UserWay Accessibility WidgetWAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
    Accessibility Testing
    Comparison of Accessibility Testing features of UserWay Accessibility Widget and WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
    Feature
    UserWay Accessibility Widget
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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
    User Ratings
    UserWay Accessibility WidgetWAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    UserWay Accessibility WidgetWAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
    Likelihood to Recommend
    UserWay
    Accessibility on websites today is usually a convoluted process of testing and re-designing, but with Userway, the process is smooth. So for someone making their own simple marketing website for their small business, Userway could potentially save their company thousands of dollars and countless hours of development time and stress.
    Incentivized
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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
    UserWay
    • Turnkey solution for website compliance
    • Easy to implement
    • Automatic updates allow you to maintain compliance without constant updates.
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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
    UserWay
    • Violations Widget when managing UserWay appears to be incorrectly tallied
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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
    UserWay
    There are no other competitors that would compare to Userway and I feel like I've been around long enough to have tried every single one of them.
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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
    UserWay
    • Allows us to maintain compliance
    • Positive view from customers who see we are a compliant business
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    UserWay Accessibility Widget Screenshots

    Screenshot of UserWay's AI-Powered Remediations address and resolve accessibility violationsScreenshot of Remediations initiated by the userScreenshot of One feature of UserWay's AI-Powered Accessibility Widget: Voice NavigationScreenshot of The capabilities of UserWay's WidgetScreenshot of UserWay's Accessibility Scanner, used to gain code-leve insights. It displays reports both with and without UserWay's AI-Powered Accessibility Widget.