What accessiBe sells
accessWidget is code you add to your site. Their own pricing page lists three plans: 490 US dollars a year for Micro, which covers up to 5,000 visits a month, then 1,490 and 3,990 dollars a year for larger sites. The Micro plan advertises automated fixes and scans every 24 hours.
Prices read from accessibe.com on 23 August 2026. Check them yourself before you decide anything: vendor pricing changes, and this sentence will not change with it.
The part everybody asks about
In January 2025 the US Federal Trade Commission announced an order requiring accessiBe to pay one million dollars, over claims that its product could make any website conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The FTC also said the company had presented third-party articles and reviews as independent opinion without disclosing its connections to the reviewers. The Commission approved the order as final in April 2025.
We are not going to tell you what that means for your business, because we are not your lawyer. We will tell you what it did to us: it is the reason the word “compliant” will never appear on a Scandiary report. A scanner cannot see whether a page works for a person, so a scanner cannot promise you anything about the law.
Sources: FTC press release, January 2025 and FTC final order, April 2025.
What we do instead
accessWidget
- Code runs on your site, in your visitor’s browser
- Changes what visitors see
- From 490 dollars a year
- Sold as a fix
Scandiary
- Nothing is installed anywhere
- Changes nothing, it only looks
- Five pages free; paid plan adds twenty pages and exact element locations, 12 dollars a month
- Sold as a list of what changed
Every Monday we open your pages at desktop width and at 380 pixels, run the same open-source checker everyone in this category runs, and email you the difference from last week. New problems, or none at all. A week with nothing in it is a real result, and we send that email too.
Because we never touch your site, there is nothing of ours that can break it, slow it down, or start behaving differently after an update we did not tell you about. That is the whole of the argument. It is a smaller argument than a widget makes, and it is one we can keep.
When accessiBe is the better choice for you
Three cases where we would not pick us either
- You want the problems fixed, not listed. We do not touch your code. If nobody on your side is going to act on a report, a report is an email you will archive.
- You need documentation or legal support. Audits, formal statements of conformance, someone to call when a letter arrives: we offer none of it.
- You need a person to test it by hand. Automated checks find roughly a third of accessibility problems. The other two thirds need a human, and vendors who sell that time are selling something real.
What we are good at is narrow: noticing that Tuesday’s deploy broke something Monday’s did not, and saying so before your customers do.
The free plan is not a trial
Five pages, scanned every Monday, for nothing, with no card and no end date. If it turns out to be useless to you, it costs you an email address and you stop opening it.