AudioEye pairs an accessibility widget with paid remediation services on an ongoing subscription. If someone on your side already writes the HTML, you need to see exactly what is broken, not rent a fix. These seven alternatives do that, and most are free to start.
No widget on your site · fixes live in your repo · runs locally
If you are shopping for an AudioEye alternative, you are usually weighing one specific trade. AudioEye sells an automated accessibility widget bundled with paid remediation services on an ongoing subscription. That is a reasonable purchase for an organization with no in-house development capacity. But if you are a developer, a freelancer, or an agency that already writes the HTML, you are paying someone else to do the part you are best placed to do yourself — and paying every month for it.
Every option below finds real accessibility issues instead of adding a widget on top. We make Loupe, so it is listed first, but each tool here is a good choice for someone.
A Chrome and Edge extension that runs the axe-core engine on any page, highlights each failing element in place, and explains the fix in plain English. It never touches your live site. Pro adds full-site crawl and AI explanations; Agency adds white-label PDF reports with your own logo.
A browser extension built on axe-core, the open-source rules engine that also powers Lighthouse’s accessibility audit. It runs inside Chrome DevTools and points at the failing DOM nodes.
A free extension from WebAIM, based at Utah State University, that puts icons for errors, alerts and structure directly onto the page you are viewing.
Microsoft’s open-source extension. FastPass runs quick automated checks, and Assessment walks you step by step through the manual checks for keyboard, focus and screen readers.
A platform that scans whole websites on a schedule and tracks accessibility over time. It also has a free Chrome extension with disability simulators.
An enterprise platform covering accessibility, SEO and content quality across large websites, with dashboards for many teams.
An accessibility specialist tests your site by hand with a keyboard and screen readers, then writes up every barrier against WCAG. This is also how you get a VPAT or Accessibility Conformance Report.
| Tool | Type | Free option | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loupe | Browser extension + reports | Yes, scanning is free | Freelancers and small agencies who fix the code themselves and need a report to hand a client. |
| axe DevTools | Browser extension | Yes, automated checks | Developers who already work in DevTools and want trusted pass/fail results. |
| WAVE | Browser extension | Yes | Designers and content editors who want to see problems in place without opening the code. |
| Accessibility Insights for Web | Browser extension | Yes, open source | Teams that want a structured, guided review before a launch. |
| Silktide | Monitoring platform + extension | Extension only | Organizations with many pages and many editors that need ongoing monitoring. |
| Siteimprove | Enterprise platform | No | Large organizations, universities and public bodies with procurement teams. |
| A human accessibility audit | Service | No | Formal conformance claims, procurement requirements and legal risk. |
AudioEye’s product combines an on-page widget offering user preferences and automated adjustments with human-assisted remediation work sold alongside it. The automated layer behaves like other overlays: a script runs on your live site and adjusts things at runtime, without changing the HTML your team maintains.
The services layer is genuinely different from a pure widget, and it is fair to say so. The question is simply whether you need to buy it. If a person on your side is going to open the editor anyway, what you need is not a subscription — it is a fast, reliable way to see exactly what is broken and why.
The pattern is consistent across the teams who make the change:
| Feature | Loupe | AudioEye |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | You find the issues and fix the source | Widget plus paid remediation services |
| Touches your live site | No — scans locally, changes nothing | Yes — a script loads for every visitor |
| Where fixes live | In your codebase, permanently | Applied at runtime by the script |
| Suits you if | Someone on your side writes the HTML | You have no development capacity |
| Evidence for a client | White-label PDF report (Agency) | Vendor reporting on the vendor’s work |
| Cost model | Free scan · $14/mo or $140/yr Pro | Ongoing subscription |
| Agency economics | Bill the audit as your own deliverable | Resell someone else’s subscription |
If you genuinely have nobody to do the remediation work, a managed service is a legitimate option. This page is for the case where you do.
Real accessibility is a short, repeatable loop: find the issues, fix them in the code, keep a record. That is the loop Loupe is built for. Open any page, click once, and every issue appears in plain English with the WCAG success criterion behind it and how to resolve it. Fix it in your markup, re-scan, and export a report when you are done — proof of the work, with your own branding if a client is paying for it.
And here is the part a widget vendor will never put in a sales page: no automated tool, Loupe included, catches everything. Automated scanning is a fast first pass that handles the mechanical issues — contrast, alt text, labels, ARIA, heading order. A person still has to judge reading order, whether alt text is actually meaningful, and whether the keyboard path makes sense. Loupe is upfront about that line and points you at the real work rather than hiding it.
Add Loupe, open any page, and click once. Every accessibility issue in plain English, with the fix — and a client-ready report when you need one.
Add Loupe to Chrome — freeFree forever for scanning. Pro ($14/mo or $140/yr) adds full-site crawl, AI explanations, and saved projects. Agency ($39/mo or $390/yr) adds white-label reports with your own branding.
Loupe, axe DevTools, WAVE, Accessibility Insights for Web, Silktide and Siteimprove all find real WCAG issues so they can be fixed in the code, unlike a widget. Loupe suits freelancers and agencies who need client reports, axe DevTools suits developers, WAVE suits designers and editors, Accessibility Insights suits guided manual reviews, and Silktide and Siteimprove suit large organizations. For a formal conformance claim, add a human audit.
If you have anyone who can edit your HTML, the alternative to a managed widget-plus-services subscription is to audit the site yourself. Loupe runs axe-core on any page, shows every WCAG issue in context with a plain-English explanation and fix, and exports a white-label PDF report (Agency plan). Scanning is free in Chrome and Edge; Pro is $14/mo, Agency $39/mo.
AudioEye provides an on-page widget that offers user preferences and applies automated adjustments at runtime, sold together with human remediation services. The automated layer behaves like other overlays in that it does not change the HTML your team maintains; the services layer is a genuine difference from a widget-only product.
No. Anything applied by a script at page load exists only while that script keeps running, and it leaves your source markup untouched. Structural problems such as heading order, form labels and meaningful alt text have to be corrected in the HTML to hold up to an audit, a screen-reader user, or a legal complaint.
Usually by a wide margin, and for agencies it changes the economics as well as the cost. An accessibility audit is a billable deliverable you can put your own name on, whereas reselling a vendor subscription is not. Loupe's scanning is free, and Agency is $39/mo or $390/yr including white-label reporting.
Each vendor sells a slightly different package, so the switch looks a little different depending on which one you are on: