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Alfa vs WCAG Checker

Alfa

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WCAG Checker

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FigureAlfaWCAG Checker
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
WebYesYes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
APIYes—
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published11
Spec score · Accessibility Testing Software9.0 (#8)8.2 (#63)
Automated scansYesYes
CI/CD integrationYesNo
Free planYesYes
LicenseAlfa is released under the MIT license.The project is MIT-licensed.
PurposeAlfa is an open, standards-based accessibility conformance testing engine for websites built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.WCAG Checker is a local web app for auditing web pages, HTML snippets, and PDFs against WCAG 2.2 Level AA.
Remediation guidanceYesNo

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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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WCAG Checker

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