What AccessWiser does — and what it doesn't

We'd rather be clear than impressive. Here is exactly what our widget and platform do for your website, what they can't do on their own, and how we help you get to real accessibility.

What the widget does

  • Adds a floating panel of assistive display tools your visitors can turn on for themselves — larger text, higher contrast, adjustable spacing, dyslexia-friendly and readable fonts, and reading aids.
  • Offers color-vision filters, light/dark/high-contrast themes, a reading mask and guide, an enlarged cursor, motion reduction, and an optional read-aloud (text-to-speech) tool.
  • Provides on-page translation into 50+ languages (on eligible plans).
  • Helps you find code-level accessibility issues, gives plain-language guidance on how to fix them, and keeps a dated record of the work you've done.

What the widget does not do

This is the part most accessibility overlays leave out. No widget or automated tool — including ours — makes a website fully compliant on its own.

  • It does not rewrite your website's source code, semantics, or ARIA, and it does not by itself make your site compliant with the ADA, WCAG, Section 508, the EAA, or any other law.
  • It cannot replace content only you can author — meaningful alt text, video captions, a logical heading structure, or accessible custom components must be fixed in your site.
  • Automated scanning catches only a portion of accessibility issues (industry studies put it at roughly a third to a half); the rest require human and screen-reader testing.
  • Its visitor-facing tools are an assistive add-on. They complement — never replace — a visitor's own assistive technology, such as a screen reader.
  • It is not legal advice and does not provide protection from, or immunity to, accessibility lawsuits.

Our approach: find, fix, monitor, document

Real accessibility comes from remediating your site — and keeping it that way. AccessWiser is built to support that ongoing work, not to paper over it.

  • Find

    Scan your real pages for code-level WCAG issues, each mapped to the success criterion it affects.

  • Fix

    Get prioritized, plain-language guidance — and, where safe, optional interim adjustments clearly labelled as temporary, not source fixes.

  • Monitor

    Coming soon: re-check your pages on a weekly or monthly schedule and get an email when new issues appear. Not continuous monitoring — a barrier introduced between runs is found on the next run, not when it appears.

  • Document

    Keep a timestamped record of issues found, fixed, and outstanding, and generate an accessibility statement — the documented, good-faith effort that actually holds up.

Why automated testing isn't the whole picture

Automated scans are fast and useful, but they can only detect a portion of possible accessibility barriers. Judgements like whether alt text is meaningful, whether reading order makes sense, or whether a form is genuinely usable with a screen reader need human testing. That's why we pair automated scanning with guidance, monitoring, and a plain-English manual checklist, rather than presenting a scan as proof of compliance.

To be plain about who does that human testing: we don't. AccessWiser does not employ people to review your site for you, and no plan includes an audit performed by us. The manual checks are written so that somebody on your side can work through them without knowing any accessibility jargon, and we record who performed each one and on what date. Where you need testing by an accessibility specialist, or by people who use screen readers and other assistive technology every day, you will need to arrange that yourself — and you should.

Learn more

AccessWiser's assistive tools help visitors personalize their experience and help you identify, remediate, monitor, and document accessibility issues. Full ADA/WCAG conformance requires remediating your site's code, and automated scans detect only a portion of possible issues. This page is not legal advice.