Alfa vs WCAG Workflow
Alfa
github.comWCAG Workflow
wcagworkflow.comSide by side
| Figure | Alfa | WCAG Workflow |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | £5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Accessibility Testing Software | 9.0 (#8) | 8.3 (#46) |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Purpose | Alfa is an open, standards-based accessibility conformance testing engine for websites built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. | WCAG Workflow combines manual and semi-automated WCAG testing, issue tracking, and documentation for accessibility audits. |
| Remediation guidance | Yes | Yes |
Plans
WCAG Workflow
- Basic£19 a month
- Professional£99 a month
- Enterprise£249 a month
- Early Adopter£5 a month
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.
WCAG Workflow
WCAG Workflow has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.