The short version
accessiBe sells accessWidget, a JavaScript overlay. Its pricing page describes "ongoing scans & fixes every 24 hrs," an accessibility widget for "session-based UI modifications," and litigation support (a claims portal, a case manager, and ADA attorney consultation) on higher plans. Plans are priced by your site's monthly traffic [1]. accessiBe also sells other products and services, including accessScan, accessFlow and accessServices [2]. This page compares accessWidget.
Accessible doesn't change your pages; its monitoring script only reads them. On paid plans, Accessible scans every URL against WCAG 2.2 with axe-core, sends a simulated screen-reader user through tasks such as sign-in and checkout and reports the step where it got stuck, and monitors which barriers real visitors meet. Fixes are made by your team, in your code, so they keep working if you stop paying anyone.
What the FTC's order says about accessiBe's marketing
In January 2025 the FTC announced a complaint and proposed order. The complaint alleged that accessiBe misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered tool to make any website compliant with WCAG, and that it formatted third-party articles and reviews to look independent without disclosing its material connections to them [3]. On April 22, 2025, the Commission approved a final consent order by a 3–0 vote. The order requires accessiBe to pay $1 million and bars it from claiming its automated products can make any website WCAG-compliant, or keep it compliant over time, unless it has the evidence to support such claims [4][5].
We include this because buyers ask about it, not as a judgment of anyone's current product. The order concerns how the product was marketed. Read the FTC's documents directly [4][5].
Side by side
| Accessible | accessiBe (accessWidget) | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A diagnostic: scans, simulated screen-reader journeys, real-user monitoring | An overlay script plus a user-preferences widget, with scans and automatic fixes every 24 hours [1] |
| Changes your page? | No. Apart from loading its own monitoring script, nothing on the page is changed: no injected ARIA, no rewritten markup, no toolbar | Yes. Remediation is applied in the browser by the widget [1] |
| Where fixes live | Your source code | In the widget at runtime. Higher plans add "custom fixes" that customize the widget [1] |
| Pricing basis | Per domain. Monitor free; Starter $99/mo; Professional $299/mo; Enterprise quoted | Monthly website visits, measured with Similarweb: Micro $59/mo or $490/yr (up to 5,000 visits), Growth $179/mo or $1,490/yr (up to 30,000), Scale $479/mo or $3,990/yr (up to 100,000), Custom above [1] |
| Free option | Monitor: real-user monitoring on one domain, no card, no expiry. Plus a free single-page check with no account | A free trial ("Start free trial" on accessiBe's site; length not stated there) [2] |
| Screen-reader journey testing | Yes, automated and simulated: multi-step tasks, including behind a login with a test account | Yearly expert manual testing of key functionality on Scale; on demand on Custom [1]. Its homepage also lists "Manual testing of key user flows" [2] |
| Real-user monitoring | Yes: axe-core and focus checks in sampled real sessions, ranked by share of sessions affected | Not stated on the pricing page [1] |
| Legal / litigation features | None. We don't sell legal protection. Paid plans keep a dated record of what was tested, found and fixed | Claims portal and dedicated case manager on Growth and above; ADA attorney consultation on Scale (1 hour) and Custom (5–10 hours) [1] |
| Published limits | What automated checks can and can't find | accessiBe links an "excluded issues" article listing issues accessWidget doesn't remediate [1] |
When accessiBe may be the better fit
- You want a visitor-facing preferences widget (text size, contrast and similar controls) and you value that more than code-level testing. Accessible doesn't offer one.
- You specifically want vendor litigation support bundled in. Accessible doesn't offer legal services.
- You have no developer time at all. Accessible reports problems. Someone still has to fix them in code.
When Accessible is the better fit
- You want fixes in your own code, where they work for every visitor and every assistive technology, and survive a change of vendor.
- Your revenue sits behind a login or a cart. Journeys walk sign-in, search and checkout the way a screen-reader user would and report the step that stops them.
- You want evidence, not assurances. Dated scans, journey runs and monitoring data you can hand to a developer, a procurement team or your own lawyer. It's a record of the work, not a certification or a legal defense.
A note on overlays
Accessibility practitioners and disabled people have asked site owners not to rely on overlays and to fix issues at the source. The Overlay Fact Sheet collects that statement and its signatories [6], and the European Disability Forum and the International Association of Accessibility Professionals published a joint statement on overlays in 2023 [7]. You don't need to take anyone's word for it: test your own key journey with a screen reader. Our guide shows how: How to test a website with a screen reader. For the wider picture, read what accessibility overlays do, and what to use instead.
Sources
- accessWidget Pricing – Web Accessibility Plans (opens in a new tab). accessiBe. Accessed October 18, 2026 (drafted from the October 18, 2026 version).
- accessiBe homepage (opens in a new tab). accessiBe. Accessed October 18, 2026.
- FTC Order Requires Online Marketer to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive Claims that its AI Product Could Make Websites Compliant with Accessibility Guidelines (opens in a new tab). Federal Trade Commission, January 3, 2025.
- FTC Approves Final Order Requiring accessiBe to pay $1 Million (opens in a new tab). Federal Trade Commission, April 22, 2025.
- In the Matter of accessiBe Inc., case page (opens in a new tab) and Decision and Order (PDF) (opens in a new tab). Federal Trade Commission, File No. 222-3156.
- Overlay Fact Sheet (opens in a new tab). Accessed October 18, 2026.
- EDF and IAAP joint statement on accessibility overlays (opens in a new tab). European Disability Forum, May 17, 2023.