accessiBe remediates in the browser. TrustScans helps you fix the source.

accessiBe sells several products. The best known, accessWidget, is installed by pasting a code snippet into your site [Source: accessiBe, pricing]. accessiBe says it “automatically remediates accessibility issues found during the audit, enabling keyboard navigation and use with screen readers,” and that it “continues to scan and remediate your website every 24 hours” [Source: accessiBe, accessWidget].

Visitors also get a menu where they can “select a pre-made disability profile” and adjust the interface. accessiBe’s own FAQ says there are errors the widget cannot fix, “including creating captions for videos and remediating PDFs” [Source: accessiBe, accessWidget].

Alongside the widget, accessiBe offers accessScan, a checker that runs eleven checks and “does not remediate” [Source: accessiBe, accessScan], and accessFlow, which it describes as “AI-powered audits and ready-to-commit fixes” for developers, with an MCP and CI/CD integrations [Source: accessiBe, accessFlow]. accessWidget pricing is published by monthly site visits, starting at $59 a month for up to 5,000 visits [Source: accessiBe, pricing].

More than you might expect. accessScan and accessFlow are testing and developer products, like ours [Source: accessiBe, accessScan] [Source: accessiBe, accessFlow]. Both companies run automated checks against WCAG, both report what they find, and both offer tooling for AI coding agents through MCP. If you only want a scanner, accessFlow is the closer comparison to TrustScans than accessWidget.

accessWidget also comes with an accessibility statement, monthly audits and an impact report [Source: accessiBe, accessWidget]. TrustScans produces reports too. Ours are the work list for your team, because nothing else will change the site.

1. 01

   Nothing is installed on your site

   TrustScans loads your public pages in a real browser from the outside, the way a visitor would. There is no snippet, no toolbar and no change to what your visitors receive. Your site changes only when your team changes it.

2. 02

   Fixes happen in your code, where they reach everyone

   Every finding comes with plain-language guidance on why it matters and how to fix it, written for each rule we test. A fix in the source reaches every visitor, whatever browser or assistive technology they use.

3. 03

   Context, not just a verdict

   Each finding names the WCAG success criterion, the pages it appears on, the element’s selector and HTML, and a highlighted screenshot for the first occurrences on each page. When the same markup fails on three or more pages we flag it as a likely shared component, so one fix can clear them all.

4. 04

   A score you can explain to anyone

   The score counts confirmed WCAG failures only, and the method is explained in the app and in the PDF report. Items that need a person to judge, and best-practice recommendations, are kept in their own lists and never move the number.

5. 05

   Honest about what automation can find

   We never tell you a scan makes a site compliant. The W3C’s guidance is that evaluation tools “can not determine accessibility, they can only assist in doing so” [Source: W3C WAI]. Our reports say what failed, what needs a human, and what we could not test.

6. 06

   Built for the people doing the fixing

   Recurring scans, regression alerts on every plan, remediation progress, report views for executives, managers and developers, PDF and CSV exports, and an API and MCP server that lets a coding agent work through the queue. Marking an issue resolved never changes the score; only a new scan does.

In January 2025 the US Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed order requiring accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented its AI tool’s ability to make any website WCAG compliant [Source: FTC, Jan 2025]. The final order, approved in April 2025, bars accessiBe from claiming its automated products can make any website WCAG-compliant, or keep it compliant over time, unless it has the evidence to support that claim [Source: FTC, Apr 2025]. accessiBe neither admitted nor denied the allegations [Source: FTC decision and order].

The National Federation of the Blind revoked accessiBe’s convention sponsorship in 2021 [Source: NFB, Jun 2021] and supported the FTC’s proposed order in 2025 [Source: NFB, Jan 2025]. The practitioner-written Overlay Fact Sheet lists accessiBe among its examples of overlays and says “full compliance cannot be achieved with an overlay” [Source: Overlay Fact Sheet].

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