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Alfa vs DigitalA11Y Accessibility Checker

Alfa

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DigitalA11Y Accessibility Checker

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FigureAlfaDigitalA11Y Accessibility Checker
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
WebYesYes
WindowsYes—
macOSYes—
LinuxYes—
APIYes—
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published11
Spec score · Accessibility Testing Software9.0 (#8)7.8 (#92)
Automated scansYesYes
CI/CD integrationYesNo
Founded20032006
Free planYesYes
PurposeAlfa is an open, standards-based accessibility conformance testing engine for websites built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.Scans a web page for accessibility issues and emails a detailed report with actionable insights.
Remediation guidanceYesYes
StandardsIt tests against accessibility standards such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).The page says the scanner tests against WCAG 2.1 and 2.2, ADA Title III, Section 508, EN 301 549/EAA, and AODA.

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Alfa

  • AlfaFree

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DigitalA11Y Accessibility Checker

  • Free Automated ScanFree

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In their own words

Alfa

Alfa is a free, open accessibility testing engine for websites built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It checks pages against accessibility standards such as WCAG, using included rules or pluggable rules in the ACT Rules Format. Developers can add custom rules and filter results by conformance level or WCAG version. Audit output follows the Evaluation and Report Language schema as JSON-LD, and the command-line interface can audit a single page and save results as JSON. Scraper and crawler tools create page representations and discover pages across a site or subdomain. Ready-made integrations cover frameworks and test tools including Angular, React, Vue, Cypress, Jest, Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, and WebdriverIO. Alfa is distributed as separate npm packages under the MIT license. It runs in ECMAScript 2022-compatible JavaScript environments, including recent Node.js and browser versions. Building from source requires Node.js 20 or later and Yarn. The project says most integrations are experimental and may change; older environments may be targetable from source but are not explicitly supported.

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DigitalA11Y Accessibility Checker

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