Better you find your WCAG issues than a regulator

Evidence log

The EAA has no certificate. Your proof is the paper trail.

When an authority or a customer asks, what counts is what you tested, what you found, what you fixed, and when. Under the Act, national authorities check services, follow up complaints and verify that problems were actually corrected. EAA, Article 23 (opens another site in a new tab)

• A dated log of every automated scan and its open issues
• Your manual check results, with dates and notes
• Issue types you excluded, listed openly, not tucked away
• A draft accessibility statement filled in from the results

Guided manual checks are on every plan, free accounts included. The evidence log is part of the PDF report on Starter, Growth, Agency and the one-off compliance package.

Our own scan engine

A perfect Lighthouse score isn't WCAG compliance

Many free scanners, and Google Lighthouse itself, are an axe-core run and little else. EqualVia runs axe-core too, then renders, focuses, zooms and measures your pages the way a real visitor would. That catches what axe-core hands off as "needs review" or can't test at all.

No machine can judge everything, like whether alt text actually says something useful. We test what we can and say openly what we can't yet: read our full accessibility statement.

The report

You don't just get a list of problems. You get the fixes.

Issues arrive ranked by severity. Each one says in plain English what's wrong and who it affects, with a concrete code fix you can paste in. Not a cryptic rule ID.

• Multi-page crawls

  Not just the homepage: depending on your plan, one scan can crawl hundreds of pages.

• WCAG and EN 301 549

  Findings carry their WCAG success criterion and EN 301 549 clause in the dashboard and the PDF: from V3.2.1, the edition the EU currently cites, and from the new V4.1.1 for the criteria WCAG 2.2 added. Best-practice findings with no criterion are labelled as such.

• Data export

  Your data stays yours: every site, scan and issue exports as JSON, anytime.

Continuous monitoring

Fixed once ≠ fixed forever

One new post, a plugin update, or an AI coding tool that has forgotten last month's fix, and the old issues are back. That's what a subscription is for: not a one-time fix, but the next scheduled scan noticing it and telling you.

• Scheduled rescans weekly, every 3 days or daily, depending on your plan
• An email when something changes: what's new and what's resolved
• Every rescan compared with the last: see what was fixed and what came back

Overlays vs. real fixes

A widget doesn't fix your code

Overlay widgets cover up symptoms in the browser, at runtime; your markup stays exactly as it was. Regulators and disability organisations have said it plainly: that doesn't make a site compliant. EqualVia finds the real WCAG violations in your code and tells you exactly what to change, for about what overlay vendors already charge.

• April 2025: the US Federal Trade Commission ordered overlay vendor accessiBe to pay $1 million for claiming its widget could make any website WCAG-compliant. FTC (opens another site in a new tab)
• The European Disability Forum and the IAAP: overlays “do not make the website accessible or compliant with European accessibility legislation.” EDF–IAAP statement (opens another site in a new tab)