Pope Tech vs Total Validator

Pope Tech provides automated and manual accessibility testing for websites, with reporting and training, and a separate accessibility platform integrated into Canvas LMS. Website scanning uses the WAVE testing engine; scheduled scans, API access and CI/CD integration are listed. Business Plus and Professional include guided manual-testing tools and tracking. Listed integrations include JIRA, Asana, email task and ticketing, GitHub, Bitbucket and YouTube. The free plan covers 25 active pages, two users, one website and one group, with unlimited rescanning within the page allowance. It is free forever and requires no credit card. Team costs $25 a month at the 50-page tier, billed annually. Business Plus costs $225 a month and Professional costs $400 a month, each at the 500-page tier and billed annually; higher page tiers are available in some plans. Monthly and annual billing are offered, and annual plans may qualify for invoicing. Support includes email, a help desk and help center, onboarding, training and consultations. Pope Tech lists Providence, Utah as its headquarters.

Total Validator is a freemium tool for checking website accessibility, HTML, CSS, broken links and spelling. Automated accessibility checks cover WCAG 2.2, 2.1 and 2.0, US Section 508 and ARIA standards. It validates HTML and XHTML against W3C and WHATWG standards, and CSS against W3C standards. The product runs through web, Windows, macOS, Linux, an API and a browser extension, with CI/CD integration. Jenkins, Team City and Selenium can call the CI version, which also provides a Web API. Remediation guidance is included. Pro can test authenticated pages, intranets, private websites and JavaScript-generated DOMs through browser extensions, while returning results locally for security. The free Test version shows only a one-page issue summary. Basic handles one page at a time; whole-site and multiple-site validation are Pro features. Manual review tools and mobile testing are not provided.