AudioEye is one of the few accessibility vendors that’s a publicly traded company, and that public-reporting requirement is worth mentioning up front since it gives buyers a level of financial transparency that’s simply unavailable when evaluating most privately held competitors. For a large enterprise or public agency running a formal vendor risk assessment, that alone can simplify part of the due-diligence process that a private competitor’s sales team would otherwise have to answer through less verifiable means.
What AudioEye does
The product combines automated scanning and remediation with an adjustment widget, familiar territory for this category, but the differentiator is explicit: AudioEye layers human-in-the-loop manual testing by accessibility specialists on top of the automation, rather than selling automated detection as a complete solution. All of this is managed through the Accessibility Management Platform, a dashboard that gives site owners visibility into detected issues, remediation status and reporting. Managed services are also available for organizations that want AudioEye’s team handling more of the ongoing work directly rather than operating the platform themselves. That option matters for a mid-market company without a dedicated internal accessibility role: rather than assigning the dashboard to whichever team member has spare time, the work can be handed to AudioEye’s specialists as an ongoing service relationship.
| Feature | AudioEye | Wawsome | UserWay | EqualWeb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approach | Publicly traded accessibility company combining automated scanning, an adjustment widget, and human-in-the-loop manual testing and remediation delivered through its Accessibility Management Platform. | Bundles an AI-assisted accessibility widget with a continuous automated monitor and a human-reviewed accessibility checker, positioned around European compliance (EAA, EN 301 549) alongside WCAG and ADA. | AI-driven accessibility widget with an in-house automated remediation engine, sold mainly as a self-serve script install with tiered plans and a separate professional audit add-on. | Accessibility widget plus a manual remediation and auditing arm, offered across a wide range of subscription tiers from single small sites up to enterprise, multi-domain agreements. |
| Pricing | Pricing not published - contact sales for a quote; third-party listings have cited a Basic automated-only plan starting around $49/mo, but AudioEye's own pricing page does not disclose figures | From EUR 23.75/mo (billed yearly) or EUR 29.90/mo (billed monthly) for the Starter widget plan, up to 100k monthly page views; a separate Accessibility Monitor product starts at EUR 27.90-34.90/mo for 50 pages | Free tier available; paid Accessibility Widget Pro starts around $69/mo, with Pro Plus around $169/mo and Ultimate around $359/mo (per third-party pricing trackers, since UserWay's own pricing page does not display figures) | From $39/mo ($390/yr) for the Small widget tier, up to 100 pages; Medium is $49/mo, Large $109/mo, Huge $169/mo, with a custom-quoted Managed tier that adds expert remediation |
| Standards supported | WCAG 2.1, WCAG 2.2, ADA, Section 508, EN 301 549 | WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1, WCAG 2.2, EAA, EN 301 549, ADA, Section 508 | WCAG 2.1, ADA, Section 508, EN 301 549 | WCAG 2.1, ADA, Section 508, EN 301 549, EAA |
| Best for | Mid-market and enterprise sites wanting automated coverage backed by human review | SMEs and e-commerce sites selling into the EU; Public institutions preparing for EAA enforcement; Teams that want a widget plus a monitoring layer rather than a one-off scan | Very small sites wanting a no-cost starting point; Teams that want a widely recognized brand name | Organizations wanting a widget with an optional path to manual remediation at various budget levels |
Standards and markets
AudioEye’s documented standards coverage spans WCAG 2.1 and 2.2, ADA, Section 508 and EN 301 549, covering both the current WCAG version and the newer 2.2 update, plus both major US and EU frameworks. That breadth positions it as a generalist rather than a single-region specialist.
Supporting WCAG 2.2 specifically, rather than stopping at 2.1, is worth noting since it’s the newer version with additional success criteria around things like target size and focus visibility; a vendor that documents 2.2 support explicitly is signaling it’s kept its standards mapping current rather than static.
Pricing model
AudioEye runs tiered subscription plans with published pricing for standard tiers, plus managed services engagements quoted separately for organizations wanting more hands-on support. That structure gives smaller buyers a transparent starting price while still leaving room for larger organizations to scope a custom, higher-touch engagement.
Setup and the dashboard experience
Like most vendors in this category, getting AudioEye running starts with a script install, after which the Accessibility Management Platform becomes the main point of contact for a site owner or IT team: tracking what’s been found, what’s been fixed automatically, what a human tester flagged for manual review, and what’s still outstanding. That dashboard-centric approach is meant to make the state of a site’s accessibility legible over time rather than a one-time snapshot, which matters for a compliance program that needs to show progress across quarters, not just a pass or fail at launch.
Honest USPs
AudioEye’s genuine differentiators, per its own documentation, are its Nasdaq listing and the public financial reporting that comes with it, and an explicit combination of automation with human manual testing rather than automation sold on its own. That human-in-the-loop framing addresses a criticism leveled at the widget category broadly, where practitioner surveys have found automated-only tools catch a limited share of real accessibility barriers. Being a public company also means AudioEye’s revenue, growth and business risks are disclosed on a regular reporting cycle, which a procurement team doing vendor due diligence can actually read rather than relying on a sales rep’s characterization of the company’s stability.
Automation and human review together
The combination AudioEye is built around, automated scanning plus specialist manual testing, reflects a fairly well-established view in the accessibility field: automated tools are good at flagging pattern-based issues quickly and at scale, like missing alt attributes or insufficient contrast ratios, but they consistently miss things that need human judgment, like whether an interactive widget’s behavior actually makes sense to someone using a screen reader, or whether a form’s error messages are genuinely usable. Neither automation nor manual testing alone covers the whole picture, which is the argument for paying for both rather than one or the other.
Best for and not for
AudioEye is a solid fit for a mid-market or enterprise site that wants automated scanning backed by genuine human review, and that values dealing with a publicly accountable, transparently reporting company. It’s less of a natural fit for a very small site on a tight budget looking for the cheapest possible entry point, where a free-tier option or a lower-cost widget like Accessi+ may suit better, or for a business whose priority is EU country-specific mapping the way Wawsome or a regional specialist like AccessiWay documents in more detail. As always, the managed services layer is where the deepest human review happens; confirm what’s included at your specific tier before assuming full human oversight is part of the base subscription.