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accessiBe vs Inclusify: what each one detects, and what it records

accessiBe adjusts your pages in the visitor's browser. Inclusify audits the rendered page with axe-core and keeps a dated record of what changed.

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How does Inclusify compare with accessiBe?

accessiBe is a browser overlay: its script adjusts your pages as a visitor loads them. Inclusify audits the page a browser renders with axe-core and keeps a dated record of what it found. Both ship a visitor widget. Only accessiBe applies fixes, and only Inclusify publishes every plan price.

Published by Inclusify, one of the two products compared. Every row carries the page it was read from. How this comparison is built. Last checked .

Which fits you better, Inclusify or accessiBe?

Inclusify if you want the failures found, named and tracked, with the price published and a free plan to start on. accessiBe if you need corrections applied in the visitor's browser without editing the site, an expert-prepared VPAT or attorney hours, or an estate far past a hundred pages. Neither one makes a site accessible on its own.

  • 4 fit Inclusify
  • 1 no tool settles on its own
  • 2 we would point at accessiBe
  • Inclusify

    You want the rule set named, and run against the page a browser renders

    The full axe-core ruleset in headless Chrome. accessiBe describes AI checks without naming one.

  • Inclusify

    Your developers want findings in Slack, Jira, Claude or a CI gate

    A full MCP server over OAuth, a Slack app and a Jira export, all on the account's own scans.

  • Inclusify

    You need to show what was tested and what changed, with dates on it

    A monthly record kept for 24 months, 30 days of day-by-day history on Pro, and a report you can download.

  • Inclusify

    You want to read the price and start before talking to anyone

    Every plan price published, and a free plan with no card and no time limit.

  • Neither

    You want one script to take care of accessibility on its own

    Nothing here does that, ours included. That is what the FTC's 2025 order was about.

  • accessiBe

    You need an expert-prepared VPAT, a manual audit, or ADA attorney hours

    accessiBe sells all three. Our ACR/VPAT draft is self-serve from scan data; we employ no auditors and sell no legal support.

  • accessiBe

    You are auditing thousands of pages across dozens of domains

    accessFlow's tiers run past 10,000 pages and 100 domains. Our largest plan audits 100.

Still weighing more than these two? accessiBe Alternatives: An Honest 2026 Comparison Guide is the list of alternatives rather than this one pairing.

What does each product actually ship?

Both ship a visitor widget with the same six preset profiles, and both scan against WCAG 2.1 AA. The table splits on everything after that: Inclusify names its rule set, walks the keyboard, reads the accessibility tree and scores your copy, while accessiBe applies fixes in the browser and sells the expert services around them.

  • 4 Both document it
  • 5 Only Inclusify
  • 0 Only accessiBe
  • 2 Partial on one side

Compiled from publicly available product documentation reviewed August 2026. Features and pricing change. Check both vendors before deciding.

What automated testing reaches, and what it does not

These shares are percentages of WCAG success criteria, not percentages of the issues on your page. The two get quoted as if they were the same number and they are not. Six evaluation tools benchmarked against WCAG 2.0 covered between 23% and 50% of the success criteria, and one criterion in two was not analysed by any tool at all.

  1. A tool decides

    23%

    of WCAG success criteria

    Criteria a scanner can pass or fail on its own, such as contrast ratios, missing alt attributes, unlabeled form controls and duplicate ids. 23% is the conservative end of the 23% to 50% range measured across the six tools.

  2. A tool points, a person decides

    27%

    of WCAG success criteria

    Criteria a tool reaches for some of the ways they can fail but not all, so it narrows the page down to candidates and a person makes the call. This is the rest of the covered half, up to the 50% ceiling the same benchmark measured.

  3. Only a person can judge

    50%

    of WCAG success criteria

    Criteria no tool analysed at all: whether alt text describes the image, whether focus order follows the visual order, whether an error message can be understood, whether a custom component behaves under a screen reader.

Including Inclusify

This is a limit of automated testing, not a gap in one vendor's product, and Inclusify sits inside it with everyone else. Our scanner runs axe-core in a real browser and it reaches the same kind of criteria the benchmark describes, which means the larger half of this chart is still work for a person and still needs changes in your code. We detect, report and track. Anything sold as covering the rest on its own is describing a product that does not exist yet.

Where these figures come from

Does an accessibility overlay stop lawsuits?

No, and the public record is specific about it. Sites already running an overlay are still sued, overlay vendors are named in the complaints, and the FTC has acted on the claim that an automated product settles this. Inclusify is bound by the same limit: a scan reports, it does not remediate.

  1. $1 million

    The payment required by the FTC's final order of April 2025, which bars accessiBe from representing that its automated products can make a website WCAG compliant without evidence to support the claim.

    FTC final order, April 2025, checked

  2. 258

    Lawsuits in 2024 that named accessiBe, as reported by UsableNet. Having the code on the page did not stop the filing.

    ADA website lawsuit statistics, checked

  3. 38.5%

    Share of businesses sued in 2025 that already had an accessibility solution or overlay installed, as reported by AudioEye.

    ADA website lawsuit statistics, checked

More than an overlay

Where is Inclusify stronger than accessiBe?

Because Inclusify audits rather than adjusts, it can say what is wrong and where. The rule set is axe-core and named, the keyboard walk and screen-reader transcript come from a real browser run, a proposed fix gets a verdict before it ships, and the widget, monitoring and crawl sit on one plan.

  • Compared on this page

    Widgets and overlays

    Acts on
    The visitor's browser, on top of the page your server already sent.
    Changes
    What that visitor sees and hears: text size and spacing, contrast, color filters, motion, reading aids and text to speech.
    Cannot do
    It cannot change the markup your developers ship, so the underlying page is unchanged for everyone who never opens it, and that is as true of Inclusify's widget as of any other.

  • Enterprise platforms

    Acts on
    Your roadmap, through audit hours, remediation help and an account team.
    Changes
    Which findings get prioritized and fixed, with people attached to the software rather than software alone.
    Cannot do
    The work is bounded by the hours in the contract, so coverage stops where the retainer stops.

  • Testing and monitoring platforms

    Acts on
    Your pages, crawled and tested on a schedule from outside the site.
    Changes
    Nothing on the site itself. It produces the list your developers work through.
    Cannot do
    It reports rather than repairs, so nothing improves for a visitor until someone ships the change.

  • Platform-native apps

    Acts on
    Your store, installed from the platform's own marketplace and billed through it.
    Changes
    Whatever the platform lets an app change, usually a theme embed and settings in the admin.
    Cannot do
    It is scoped to the one platform it is sold on, so it does not follow you to a site that marketplace does not cover.

  1. A rule set you can read

    The full axe-core ruleset, run in headless Chrome against the page a browser actually renders. It is open source, so what it tests is checkable.

  2. Behaviour, not only rule counts

    A real Tab walk that names focus traps and obscured focus, plus a screen-reader transcript taken from the live accessibility tree.

  3. A verdict before you ship

    Paste the markup you are about to deploy and get back resolved, not resolved, masked or not decidable. Masked is the one that earns its keep.

  4. The copy your team wrote, scored

    Link text, button labels, heading context and alt quality, reported beside the axe result. Rules pass a link called "click here"; this does not.

  5. One plan, priced by pages

    Widget, monitoring and the full-site crawl on the same plan. accessiBe prices the widget on traffic and sells accessFlow separately.

The capabilities behind these, plan by plan, are on the Inclusify features page.

Being straight about it

What does accessiBe do that Inclusify does not?

Four things. It rewrites ARIA, alt text and keyboard behaviour in the visitor's browser, so a site nobody has time to change still improves. It sells manual audits, prepared VPATs, a case manager and attorney hours. Its tiers reach past 10,000 pages and 100 domains. And it has been selling since 2018.

  1. Fixes applied in the visitor's browser

    accessWidget rewrites ARIA, alt text and keyboard behaviour at page load. Inclusify only detects and reports, so every fix is work on your side.

  2. Expert services we do not offer

    Manual audits, prepared VPATs, a case manager and ADA attorney hours are real parts of accessiBe's line. Inclusify employs no auditors.

  3. Scale we do not reach

    accessFlow's tiers run from 1,000 pages and 2 domains to more than 10,000 pages across 100. Inclusify's largest plan audits 100 pages.

  4. Platform features, and a track record

    No SSO, no public REST API. Enterprise removes our footer wordmark, but the widget cannot be rebranded. accessiBe has been selling since 2018, with the record that follows.

What does each one cost?

Both publish figures, which is unusual here, and they are not the same shape. Inclusify is four prices from $0 to $279 a month per website, sized by audited pages. accessiBe's widget starts at $59 a month sized by monthly visits, and accessFlow is a second purchase priced by pages and domains.

  1. $0FreeWidget, 1,000 visitors
  2. $39Starter5 monitored pages
  3. $99Pro25 pages, crawl, AI review
  4. $279Enterprise100 monitored pages

Per website. Annual billing costs ten months. The free plan needs no card; paid plans start with a 7-day trial. What each Inclusify plan includes.

What accessiBe publishes

accessWidget's published tiers are $59, $179 and $479 a month, sized by monthly website visits, with the case manager and the litigation support pledge on the higher two. accessFlow is priced separately by pages and domains, so running both means buying both.

Their pricing page, checked

How do you decide between Inclusify and accessiBe?

Answer four questions before you look at either price. Who on your side will change the code. How many templates, rather than URLs, actually need auditing. Where a finding has to land before anybody acts on it. And what survives the script being removed, because a correction at page load lasts as long as the script does.

  1. A change for visitors, or a record of the work?

    An overlay changes today's page. An audit produces the list and the dated evidence. Different purchases.

  2. Who is going to make the fixes?

    If nobody on your side has time to change code, a tool that only reports improves nothing.

  3. How many pages really need auditing?

    Count templates, not URLs. Eight thousand products is usually a dozen templates.

  4. Where does a finding have to land?

    Jira, Slack, an agent, a release gate. A dashboard nobody opens is the same as no tool.

  5. What survives the script being removed?

    A correction at page load lasts as long as the script does. A fix in your markup outlives the vendor.

Switching questions.

Neither, in the abstract. It depends which half of the problem you are buying. accessiBe changes what a visitor gets without you editing the site, and sells the human services around it. Inclusify finds the failures, names the selector and the template, and keeps a dated record your developers can work from.

accessiBe is the stronger pick if you need the manual audits, VPAT preparation and attorney hours their higher tiers carry. Inclusify is the stronger pick if you want the full axe-core ruleset run in a real browser and history you can show. On the visitor-facing widget the two are close, and ours is free on every plan.

For the widget, yes. All 35 Inclusify adjustments and all six profiles run on the free plan, with no card and no time limit, and accessWidget's published tiers start at $59 a month after a trial. For scanning it depends on how many pages you need, and it can land either way.

Inclusify is $39 to $279 a month per website by audited pages, and accessFlow is priced separately by pages and domains. Compare the page allowance behind the price rather than the headline figure, and remember that running accessWidget and accessFlow means buying two products.

No. Inclusify ships a widget, so the visitor-facing part looks similar, and the difference is what sits behind it. Inclusify does not rewrite your pages to make a rule pass. It audits the rendered page with axe-core, reports what it found with the selector to change, and keeps a dated history.

The Overlay Fact Sheet's objection is to automatic repair applied in the browser, and to the claim that it delivers conformance. We make neither move: the fixes stay yours to ship, which is also why they survive the script being removed.

You gain an audit trail rather than an adjustment layer. Inclusify re-scans each monitored page about every twenty hours, emails you when a scan finds something that was not there before, and keeps a monthly record for twenty-four months. Nothing you already run has to come down for that to start.

If you keep accessWidget for the visitor toolbar, nothing stops you running Inclusify's scanning beside it. Two widgets in the same corner of the screen is the thing to avoid, so pick one for the visitor and let the other do the auditing.

No, and that is deliberate. Inclusify detects and reports. Automated fixes applied in the browser can mask a problem from a scanner while leaving it in place for someone using a screen reader, and they disappear the moment the script does. We would rather tell you exactly what to change.

The validate step is where that pays. Paste the markup you are about to deploy and Inclusify answers resolved, not resolved, masked or not decidable. Masked is the verdict that catches a change which only hides the issue.

It is public record and worth knowing. The FTC announced a complaint in January 2025 and approved a final order in April 2025 requiring accessiBe to pay $1 million. The order bars the company from representing that its automated products can make a website WCAG compliant without evidence to support the claim.

It also covers third-party articles and reviews presented as independent opinions. That is a claim about marketing rather than a verdict on whether the widget helps your visitors. We mention it once because it sets the line we hold ourselves to: no scan, and no widget, settles this for you.

Three cases, and they are real. When nobody on your side is going to change the code, so a correction applied in the browser is the only improvement that will actually happen. When you need a person: a manual audit, a professionally prepared VPAT, or the attorney consultation on their higher tiers.

And when the estate is large, because accessFlow's published tiers run past 10,000 pages and 100 domains while our largest plan audits 100 pages.

Four plans, priced per website. Free is $0 and covers the widget on one language for up to 1,000 monthly visitors. Starter is $39 a month and monitors 5 pages. Pro is $99 for 25 pages, the on-demand full-site crawl and the AI content review. Enterprise is $279 for 100 pages.

Starter also adds widget customization, all 71 languages and an email when a scan finds something that was not there before. Pro adds downloadable compliance reports and 30 days of day-by-day history. Annual billing costs ten months instead of twelve, the free plan needs no card, and every paid plan starts with a 7-day trial.

Very little, and none of it is used for tracking. The widget stores a visitor's own preferences in their browser and sets no cookies. The only request it makes is a one-pixel beacon used to count monthly visits, and the visitor's IP address is hashed before it is stored.

So the raw address is never written to our database. The widget does not read, copy or transmit the content of your pages.

Scans run on Inclusify's own infrastructure in a real Chrome browser, so a page is tested as a visitor's browser renders it rather than as static HTML. We store the findings and not copies of your site: rule identifiers, the selectors and short snippets needed to locate each issue, and the score.

On Pro and above the AI review sends targeted material to an AI provider, specifically images that are missing alt text and short label or heading strings, never a dump of your page or your customer data. Inclusify holds no accessibility certification and is not SOC 2 audited, and nothing here should be read as implying otherwise.

Any site where you can add one script tag. There is a native Shopify app with a theme app embed, so Shopify stores install it with a toggle and no code, and a Wix app on the Wix App Market that adds the widget for you. There are documented install steps for WordPress, Magento, BigCommerce, Webflow and Squarespace.

The scanner works against any URL it can reach, and password-protected Shopify stores are handled rather than failed.

Add the Inclusify snippet or install the Shopify or Wix app, confirm the widget appears, then remove the other vendor's script. Nothing has to come down first, because the free plan has no time limit, so you can run both side by side for as long as you want before removing anything.

There is no importer, so settings and any dismissed findings do not carry over, and the pages you want monitored are nominated once in the panel.

Something here not answered? Talk to us.

Same table, other tools: Inclusify vs UserWay, Inclusify vs AudioEye, Inclusify vs EqualWeb.

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