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AccessLint vs CWAC

AccessLint

accesslint.com

CWAC

github.com

Side by side

FigureAccessLintCWAC
Price from$19/moFree
Free planYesYes
Free trialYes—
Open source——
WebYes—
macOSYes—
Linux—Yes
APIYes—
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published31
Spec score · Website Accessibility Tools9.0 (#8)7.6 (#87)
MakerThe privacy policy identifies the maker as AccessLint, LLC and lists its address in Albany, New York, United States.CWAC is designed and developed by the Web Standards team at Te Pūnaha Matihiko, the Government Digital Delivery Agency of the New Zealand Government.

Plans

AccessLint

  • FreeFree
  • Starter$19 a month
  • Pro$349 a month

AccessLint pricing →

CWAC

  • CWACFree

CWAC pricing →

In their own words

AccessLint

AccessLint checks accessibility during development, on pull requests, and on live sites. Its WCAG 2.2 engine has 95 rules and a stated 53ms median audit across 5,000 real-world sites. Pull-request reviews inspect changed files and leave inline comments with the relevant rule and a suggested correction, but do not fail builds or block merges. Deploy-triggered scans require Starter or Pro, run asynchronously, and also do not synchronously fail builds. Saved user journeys can run daily, with email alerts for new violations or changes against a baseline. The toolkit provides checks for Playwright, Vitest, and Storybook, while pull-request reviews use a GitHub App. Starter and Pro include shareable read-only evidence reports with before-and-after screenshots of affected elements. Free covers public-repository pull-request reviews, one daily monitored flow, and violation trends. Starter costs $19 a month or $190 a year; Pro costs $349 a month or $3,490 a year. AccessLint says automated checks alone cannot make a site compliant.

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CWAC

CWAC has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

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