accessiBe uses aCe, the industry-standard for accessibility testing.

Now that you understand what accessiBe has to offer, let’s check how everything works in the background.

How the accessWidget, accessiBe’s AI-powered website accessibility checker, Works

Using machine learning and computer vision technologies, accessiBe simplifies and streamlines becoming accessible and compliant.

It combines two applications to achieve compliance:

1. The Accessibility Interface: a session-based design and UI adjustment tool responsible for all the UI and design-related
2. AI-Powered Processes: AI machine learning technology responsible for the complex, back-end requirements; optimization for screen-readers and keyboard navigation

An Interface Page – Accessibility Interface

Each accessiBe customer can adjust their website’s design and UI to their individual need or disability using the Accessibility Interface.

accessiBe offers each customer an “Accessibility Statement and Certificate” within the interface and as a PDF to their email. The certificate indicates the customer’s website’s remediations to achieve compliance.

The Accessibility Statement issued by accessiBe includes the website domain, the issuance date, and several sections, including Compliance Status, Screen-reader and keyboard navigation, Disability profiles supported on our website, Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments, Assistive technology and browser compatibility, Notes, comments, and feedback.

accessiBe offers two ways for each customer to modify their website design.

First, the user can choose a disability profile and activate all relevant adjustments simultaneously. accessiBe offers several profiles in this regard:

• Seizure Safe Profile: eliminates flashes and reduces color

• Vision Impaired Profile: enhances the website’s visuals

• Cognitive Disability Profile: assists with reading and focusing

• ADHD Friendly Profile: more focus and fewer distractions

• Blind Users (Screen-reader): using the website with a screen reader

• Keyboard Navigation (Motor): using the website with the keyboard

And second, a user can enable singular adjustments. I especially love this option since it’s incredibly precise, meaning it can better suit different users’ needs and demands.

Each user can make three different adjustments: Content Adjustments, Color Adjustments, and Orientation Adjustments.

Within Content Adjustments, you can scale the content, zoom in or out.

For instance, you can do -50%, which will zoom out the screen, and you will see everything from afar.

On the other hand, you can zoom in, say by +60%.

Next, you can select readable font, highlight text, or highlight links.

The text magnifier is yet another fascinating and useful tool. See, I find it incredibly convenient for everyday tasks. What it does is enlarge the text you show on a page. Therefore, it can be great for the elderly or people that stare at the screen all day (like me).

Finally, you can adjust the text on a webpage: adjust the font size, line height, leter spacing, align center, left, or right.

Color Adjustment also includes a broad set of features, including dark contrast, light contrast, monochrome, high saturation, high contrast, low saturation, adjust text colors, title colors, or background colors.

The human eye can quickly identify the important design principles of proportion, line, form, texture, and movement through contrast. As mentioned, you can choose between dark and light contrast with accessiBe.

Here’s how the light contrast looks.

Next, accessiBe users can select the Monochrome version.

The high saturation, high contrast, and low saturation are pretty straightforward so that I will skip on their elaboration. Now, what amazed me is the following. You can choose a color for the text, title, and background.

For instance, I have chosen a black background with white text and orange titles.

Finally, you can find Mute Sounds, Hide Images, Read Mode, Reading Guide, Useful Links, Stop Animations, Reading Mask, Highlight Hover, Highlight Focus, Big Black Cursor, and Big White Cursor within Orientation Adjustments.

The Hide Images option eliminates all photos from the website.

Next, the Read Mode transforms the page to show only the text in the simplest possible, readable format.

With the Reading Guide, one can easily get around the page and track where they have “left off.”

Next, within Useful links, you can choose from a whole bunch of options, including Home, Header, Footer, or Main Content. Then, there’s Account new window, Impact, Vision, Reviews, Support, Product, Services, and so on.

The Reading Mask highlights only specific horizontal areas of the site.

The Highlight Hover, in turn, outlines specific areas of the page that the user is pointing at.

Finally, as the names imply, the Big Black Cursor and the Big White Cursor can help you better orient the page by pointing at different sections, titles, texts, and so on.

Furthermore, accessiBe powers websites worldwide. It is available across many different legislations and regulations and in 12 different languages. Its Online Dictionary, in turn, provides instant meaning for users with cognitive disabilities who may find it hard to comprehend certain phrases, language, or slang.

AI Page – Artificial Intelligence

With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), accessiBe was able to solve the issue of web accessibility, transforming the solution from a service to a product. In other words, accessiBe has driven a real accessibility revolution.

Using AI and automation, accessiBe can make thousands of websites accessible in the amount of time it used to make just one at a fraction of the cost. Its technology goes beyond basic requirements, creating an exceptional digital experience for people with disabilities.

As mentioned, accessiBe’s AI handles the more complex accessibility adjustments such as screen-reader optimization and keyboard navigation. Since it’s an automated solution, it can efficiently, affordably, and quickly perform back-end adjustments.

accessiBe’s AI technology utilizes contextual understanding. It applies the same thinking as sighted users following a website to analyze a site and visually matches elements and behaviors to millions of past encounters. In turn, the AI learns from context the elements’ purpose on a page.

Once the AI understands what each element does on the page, it can implement the necessary code adjustments to reflect blind people using screen-readers exactly what’s on the screen. Thus, they can comprehend the purpose of each element exactly like it was in the original idea.

Essentially, contextual understanding is a four-step process including a scan, analysis, deployment, and maintenance.

Next, accessiBe uses image recognition and OCR AI technologies. The tool scans a page to detect all images. Then, it checks whether they have alternative text (Alt tags) or not. If it is missing, it uses OCR to learn the objects from within the image, to provide alternative text on its own.

In turn, accessiBe ensures that blind readers can rely on the descriptions to understand what’s on the page.

Finally, the AI technology performs daily scans and analyses to continual compliance. It re-scans every page of every site at least once every 24 hours to immediately ensure that new updates are being remediated for compliance.

Now, I am probably as eager as you to present how AI actually works in practice. Essentially, it fixes the elements (present in almost all websites) that are challenging to users to make accessible, such as pop-ups, links, menus, icons, images, buttons, dropdowns, and forms.

First, accessiBe moves the focus, enabling a dismissal with the Esc key and tag for screen-readers.

It identifies, labels, and fixes empty or insufficient link text.

accessiBe identifies and interprets menus to screen readers and allows navigation with arrow keys.

Furthermore, accessiBe uses contextual understanding to identify the purpose of icons and tag accordingly.

Next, accessiBe enables keyboard navigation and locks up navigation focus for users who can’t use a mouse.

It provides elaborate and accurate alternative text to all images, including embedded text as well as objects.

accessiBe can also identify text and link elements that behave like buttons and enable keyboard operation.

Finally, accessiBe announces field requirements and validations, identifies error messages and successes.

And that’s more or less all a user, including me, should know about it.

Performance, Security, and Privacy

I have to do a section on security, privacy, and performance in all my reviews. After all, the Internet is one “dangerous” place, and especially nowadays, when third parties can easily access data, they aren’t supposed to. Furthermore, time is money. So, performance and speed are also crucial. So, let’s check how accessiBe stands in this regard.

First, accessiBe has a state-of-the-art infrastructure with highly secure servers in San Francisco and New York. They come with above industry-level encryption and military-grade security. I like accessiBe because it offers data encryption during both storage and transmission.

Furthermore, accessiBe comes with support for data loss prevention and fail-safe-ready servers in Europe, weekly vulnerability checks and audits, daily manual, and automatic malware scans, and support for script and link tags integrity. You can also expect an active internal bounty program and app modularity with microservices. Going on, accessiBe has a dedicated DevOps team on payroll and adequate access control measures.

accessiBe is also optimized to deliver lightning-fast speeds. Well, that’s at least if your website was fast in the first place. The provider is optimized to load asynchronously at 0.2 seconds so that it will never slow you down or get in users’ way.

Better yet, accessiBe is GDPR  & CCPA  compliant and doesn’t collect any personal data from your website or users. Yes, accessiBe uses localStorage, however, without utilizing cookies.

Compliance Overview

While many websites want to be accessible, others adhere to the standards of becoming compliant to avoid a lawsuit. Regardless of the group you fall into, essentially, you have to have web accessibility legislation.

accessiBe is WCAG 2.1, ADA Title III, Section 508, Unruh Act, EAA, ACA, AODA, HB-1110, and IS5568 compliant.

Partner Program Overview

accessiBe’s entire business is based on partnerships, including professionals from the web or digital agencies, entrepreneurs, or just about anyone looking for an affordable and straightforward web website accessibility checker.

Its partner program is free of charge and doesn’t imply any commitments, including three significant benefits:

• Web accessibility compliance for the partner and its clients
• accessiBe partner license for the agency site for free
• 20% commission for any client the agency brings on board

accessiBe already has thousands of partners helping the company make the digital space more accessible to people with disabilities. Several worthy mentions in this regard are BigCommerce, DealerOn, RealPage, WebFX, Digital Ocean, Volusion, CDKGlobal, Sincro, and so on.

Better yet, if you are a professional yourself, you can get all this support and service. All you need to do is schedule a quick demo with one of accessiBe’s dedicated partnership managers so that they can explain everything in depth.

Furthermore, accessiBe offers a strategic partnership program for those that manage or influence hundreds or thousands of websites or provide a dedicated web solution to many customers. With this option, the company will establish a tailor-made partnership that perfectly fits your organization’s needs as a qualified strategic partner.

Sure, I like that accessiBe offers partner and affiliate programs with the potential to earn high commissions. However, what I like best about it is actually the fact that they work with a wide variety of disability-focused organizations. By collaborating with disability-focused organizations, accessiBe raises awareness and educates broad audiences about inclusion, diversity, and equality.

accessiBe’s awesome disability-focused partner organizations include 3IHome, Orbis, Volunteer Sudbury, National Ability Center, Castle Rocks Senior Center, Outdoors for All, Meaction, Canine Therapy Corpos, Habilitas, PathPoint, Center For Independence, Possible With Music, Imagine Colorado, Paws NY, New Horizons, Challenged Sailors, Dale Rogers Training Center, The Viscardi Center, 4WheelCity, EasterSeals New Jersey, United Cerebral Palsy, CICOA, Brevard Achievement Center, Autism Housing Network, Madison House Autism, Australian Disability, RevAUlusion, Outdoor Mindset, Facing Light, Champion Autism Network, Soul Clinic of Kentucky, Special Kneads and Treats, Region V Services, My Noble Life, Kids Only, Eitan Everybody Can, VACA, Dementia Friends Indiana, Eversight, Bloom Consulting, Yes Disability Resource Centre, Deaf and Blind Africa, True Friends, and I Know Autism.

Setting Up A Plan – How To Install the accessWidget?

As mentioned before, accessiBe is platform-agnostic, meaning it can operate on any website and any platform, whether a known brand or a custom-made one. It offers easy integrations with Squarespace, WooCommerce, WordPress, Magento, Shopify, Webflow, WiX, PrestaShop, Volusion, BigCommerce, Drupal, Google Tag Manager, accessiBe JS Embed, Concrete CMS, Umbraco, SITE123, Web.com, Jimdo, Joomla, and OpenCart.

It’s relatively easy to get the AI-powered product from accessiBe. All you need to do is click ‘Start Free Trial’ in the top right corner. Once you do so, you will see the following screen. Here, you can quickly register by entering your Full name, Business name, Email address, Password, and Phone number. And that’s it – it’s as simple as that!

Once you click on Signup, you will enter the Dashboard. Within the Client Area, you can perform a free audit, start the 7-day accessWidget trial, or purchase additional services that you might need. As you probably remember, I have already explained these earlier – Media Accessibility, File Accessibility, and Accessibility Auditing. Furthermore, you can find relevant news and updates regarding accessiBe within this area.

Within the Main Menu, you can find the accessWidget (the one discussed up to this point), the accessFlow, and accessCampus. At the moment of my writing, the latter two were still unavailable. So, I’ll come back to the access Widget later.

Below this row, you can also find Account & Team, Billing & Payments, Accessibility Audits, Partner Portal, and Installation.

First, within Account & Team, you can manage your account membership – add a new account or log out from all accounts.

You can also add team members and assign them specific roles. For instance, if someone is an ‘Admin,’ it means they have access to manage all actions. In turn, team members with a ‘User’ role can manage everything except for billing information, user roles, and making payments.

Next, you can get API access for your account. Usually, this is a good alternative for customers and partners that manage dozens or more websites and need to automate subscription management.

Going on, you can designate who should be receiving system emails within the Email notifications section. If, for instance, you manage websites for other businesses, you can choose emails to be sent directly to the website owner.

At the bottom of the page, you can also update your user information, including your name, email, phone number, password, or all of these variables at the same time.

Billing & Payments is relatively straightforward. Here, you can manage your billing methods or track your payment history.

Accessibility Audits grant a comprehensive view of all accessibility audits you have run for your websites. Here, you can also run audits or download the finished ones for evidence, documentation, or whatever else you might need.

Next, the Partner portal delivers all actions that you can take to manage your partnership with accessiBe, from managing commissions to creating child accounts. Here, you can also access all marketing materials and demonstrations to help you best engage with your clients about accessiBe and earn your profits faster and better.

The Partner portal is divided into a few sections. Within the first one, by the same name, you can find Case Studies to help you mitigate unnecessary legal risk. Here, accessiBe also delivers all notable information you might need regarding web accessibility litigation, along with how this can affect your business. The various presentations, templates, and marketing collateral come in handy for your existing and potential clients.

Next, you can view and claim your Partner commissions within Commissions in the Partner Portal.

You must ensure that you have entered your relevant payment info. At this point, you can go for PayPal or use the bank instead. Either way, you can track your commissions’ history and website summary within this section. You can check your claims – your total claims and the commissions paid.

Going on to Child Accounts. Using accessiBe, you can open a Child Account to allow your clients to manage their accessiBe accounts while you still receive commissions. It works on a simple principle – each time someone adds a subscription through a Child Account; you will automatically receive commissions.

Finally, you can find your dedicated partner tracking link to refer new leads and your existing clients to accessiBe easily. It’s an excellent feature since it allows you to earn money automatically. Say you have a partner account. Each time a visitor arrives at accessiBe using your dedicated partner tracking link and sign up for a product, accessiBe will add them as child accounts to your partner account. In turn, you will receive a commission for each of their purchases, which, if you ask me, is pretty incredible.

At last, there’s the Installation section next to the Partner Portal. At this point, you can go for the ‘Quick & Basic Installation’ or the ‘Customized & Advanced Installation.’

Up to now, I have explained the first, the quick and basic installation. If you go for this option, essentially, you will get a standard installation with accessiBe’s default design (the one I showed you above). If, however, you go for the latter, you will be able to customize the interface to match your brand’s design.

Before I go on, I have to point out the following. As you have probably noticed by now, accessiBe offers customer support at all times, at all points in the process. For instance, here, you can find the Installation Guides. But more importantly, you can contact a customer support agent from the bottom right corner.

The Quick & Basic Installation takes approximately three minutes. All you will need to do is copy the script to your clipboard and paste the installation code right before the ending of the body tag. Here, you can check the compressed and uncompressed script or ask for instructions for the install via email.

The Customized & Advanced Installation takes a bit longer than the first but is still incredibly fast. You can expect it to be done in around ten minutes. If you go for this option, first, you need to choose from desktop and mobile.

Next, you can customize the Interface.

Here, you can select an Interface Lead Color.

Now, this is a service of great quality. First, as soon as I changed the color, the accessWidget immediately changed it on the example of the right. But more importantly, the provider immediately warned me that the color I had chosen resulted in an insufficient contrast and advised me to change it. Way to go, accessiBe!

Next, you can also manage the Accessibility Statement Link, Interface Footer Content, Interface Language, and Interface Position.

The following section, Trigger Customizations, allows you to change the trigger button color, its horizontal position, vertical position, button size, button shape, or even hide the button. You can also move it around using the Trigger Horizontal Offset and Trigger Vertical Offset buttons. You can track within the field on the right whatever you do within this section. Finally, you can change the icon altogether. Whatever works for you.

At last, you can make mobile customizations. However, keep in mind that you must also select the Mobile version on the right to see the changes you make within this section.

Finally, you can contact sales from the top right corner and get a three-minute long demo.

And that’s more or less all about it. First, you have learned the theory, and second, you got to see how accessiBe works in practice. So, let’s start wrapping it all up. The next question is, what makes accessiBe superior to its competitors? Why should you go for it instead of any other web accessibility tool on the market?

Specific Features Of accessiBe

accessiBe is the number #1 fully automated ADA and WCAG compliance solution.

Its features, including the accessWidget, accessCampus and accessFlow, easy integration, excellent graphical user interface (GUI), multilanguage setup, ability to completely hide the interface, sort of a dark mode, and compliance, give accessiBe enough superior value. But there’s more!

Here’s what makes accessiBe better than its competitors.

Furthermore, accessiBe ensures you won’t have to compromise your website design. While its competitors might require you to follow specific color ratios and font sizes that hinder and limit the user experience you and your designers worked so hard to achieve, accessiBe eliminates these barriers.

Next, accessiBe makes web accessibility achievable and affordable for all businesses. Usually, web accessibility tools require the combined efforts of a WCAG expert and a full-stack web developer. Both spend hours remediating the website for compliance; therefore, this might quickly become very costly, requiring a high budget a lot of time and resources. And in reality, not many businesses can afford these types of solutions. On the other hand, accessiBe cuts down labor significantly. Thus, it can deliver much lower prices.

While its competitors might require customers to provide a third-party service full access to their databases and source code, accessiBe doesn’t touch the source code or any other previous adjustments in this regard.

Going on, accessiBe re-scans and re-analyzes each page of the website using it, at a minimum rate of once every 24 hours, to ensure that every new update, addition, or revised content is being remediated to compliance instantly.

If a web accessibility company performs the compliance processes manually, it might take a lot of time. After all, the WCAG is a 1000-page guidebook. Using automation, accessiBe speeds up the process up to 48 hours to remediate your website.

Yet, that’s not all there is. The company takes things to a whole new level. In accessiBe, the sum of all parts is greater than the whole, a phenomenon recognized as synergy. accessiBe hasn’t entered the “feature war” with its competitors but took an entirely different approach due to its vision – what the company strives to achieve. In other words, the company sees itself as an accessibility hub in a more holistic way.

The best thing about accessiBe is that the company works closely with its end-users, people with disabilities, daily to ensure a reliable, excellent digital experience that fits their needs.

The provider has invested millions into raising awareness and educating businesses on the importance of web accessibility. In only two years, accessiBe has made over 100,000 websites accessible, while its competition has managed a few thousand altogether. And as mentioned earlier, accessiBe works closely with disability-focused organizations such as Ruderman, Viscardi, and Crip Camp, powers and sponsors disability-focused organizations behind the scenes and daily because they care.

accessiBe even has a dedicated page to the Unstoppables, consisting of amazing people from different parts of the disability community.

Furthermore, accessiBe is the first web accessibility tool ever to be shown on national TV. After all, that counts for something. It means the brand is trustworthy and reliable.

Summary

accessiBe has indeed revolutionized the market and we have witnessed it firsthand at HostAdvice. The company hasn’t been around much. Still, it has achieved an effect that its competitors haven’t done so combined.

First things first, accessiBe is superior due to its utilized technology. It’s the only AI-powered tool that’s WCAG 2.1, ADA Title III, Section 508, Unruh Act, EAA, ACA, AODA, HB-1110, and IS5568 compliant.

Due to AI and automation, accessiBe significantly drives down costs. Instead of a service, accessiBe provides a product that can serve a broader audience, even smaller businesses or individual websites with limited budgets. However, it’s not only about the financials, but so much more than that!

Each account also comes with an accessibility statement & certification, screen-reader & keyboard navigation adjustments, accessibility interface for UI, and design fixes. As the customer, you can also expect automatic daily monitoring and scans, a dedicated litigation Support Package, monthly accessibility compliance audits, and a free 7-day trial with no credit card required.

In addition, accessiBe offers other services complementary to accessiBe’s AI-Powered solution.

Still, what makes accessiBe as valuable as it is to many is its vision. The company aims to make accessibility available to everyone worldwide. It works side-by-side with individuals with different disabilities to best understand their needs, thus serving their needs. More precisely, accessiBe covers several disabilities, including the blind, motor impaired, cognitive disorder, epileptics, vision impaired, and hearing impaired.

Up to this point, even I personally (not just as part of HostAdvice) have had a great experience with this web accessibility provider. They are dedicated, fully transparent, and straightforward. By visiting their website, you can learn all there is to know about their tools and offers.

Therefore, I am fully convinced; accessiBe doesn’t only promise but also delivers. Many other users support my arguments. You can also find countless testimonials from real-life businesses, including multi-million brands and well-known names, which speak a lot of the company’s quality. Either way, you can test the tool yourself. All you need to do is visit accessiBe’s site and start your trial with only a few clicks right away!

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