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Alfa vs UserWay Accessibility Checker

Alfa

github.com

UserWay Accessibility Checker

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FigureAlfaUserWay Accessibility Checker
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial—Yes
Open source——
WebYesYes
WindowsYes—
macOSYes—
LinuxYes—
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published12
Spec score · Accessibility Testing Software9.0 (#8)8.0 (#81)
Automated scansYesYes
Founded2003UserWay’s timeline says Allon Mason founded the company in September 2016.
Free planYesYes
HeadquartersCopenhagen, DenmarkWilmington, Delaware, USA
IntegrationsThe integrations repository lists packages for Angular, Chai, Cheerio, Cypress, Jasmine, Jest, jQuery, Playwright, Puppeteer, React, Selenium, Unexpected, Vitest, Vue, and WebdriverIO.UserWay advertises 20+ platform integrations and lists support resources for platforms including WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Drupal, Webflow, and HubSpot.
PurposeAlfa is an open, standards-based accessibility conformance testing engine for websites built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.The Accessibility Checker lets users enter a website URL and run a one-click check for ADA and WCAG accessibility violations.
Remediation guidanceYesYes

Plans

Alfa

  • AlfaFree

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UserWay Accessibility Checker

  • Accessibility Checker free checkFree
  • Accessibility MonitorPriced on request

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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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UserWay Accessibility Checker

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