accessiBe alternative: fix the code instead of covering it

What accessiBe does, what it cannot do, what the FTC ordered in 2025, and what changes when the corrected code is delivered instead of a widget.

Facts checked on Sep 16, 2026

What accessiBe is

accessiBe is an accessibility overlay: a script you add to your site that shows a floating button with display profiles (contrast, font size, reading modes) and applies automatic changes in the visitor's browser.

What accessiBe does not do

• In April 2025 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission finalized an order requiring accessiBe to pay $1 million and prohibiting it from claiming that its product makes websites compliant with WCAG without evidence.
• It does not change your site's code. The script runs in the visitor's browser; the HTML your developer sees, and a lawsuit cites, stays the same.
• Screen-reader users typically already have their own settings; a second layer of "profiles" can conflict with them.
• It cannot write a description for a product photo it has never seen, or fix a checkout button that the keyboard cannot reach.
• Lawsuit trackers (UsableNet, yearly reports) count hundreds of ADA web lawsuits per year filed against sites that had an overlay installed.

Where it is fair to say it helps

The display profiles can help some visitors with low vision on a site that is otherwise well built. They are not a substitute for fixing the code, and since 2025 the vendor itself can no longer say they are.

What changes with Rampa

• Scans every page that matters (up to 100 per site), on desktop and on a phone, with axe-core in a real Chromium browser.
• Writes the corrected HTML for each failure, tests it in an isolated browser, and gives it to your developer with a copy button. Your code changes; the visitor's browser does not have to.
• Explains every finding twice: for the owner, in plain words, and for the developer, with the WCAG criterion and the fix.
• Gives you the manual half of WCAG as 7 one-minute tests with a pass criterion, and re-scans every week so a new plugin or theme does not undo the work.

Questions people ask

Does accessiBe protect me from an ADA lawsuit?

No tool can promise that. What lawyers look for is whether the code fails WCAG and whether you are fixing it. An overlay leaves the code as it was; lawsuit trackers count hundreds of cases per year against sites with an overlay installed.

Can I keep accessiBe and use Rampa too?

Yes. Rampa audits the underlying code, not the widget. Many sites remove the widget once the code is fixed because the fixes make it redundant.

Is Rampa a widget?

No. Rampa does not add anything to your page. It gives you a report, the corrected code and a public accessibility statement. There is an optional temporary patch that applies only the fixes we verified, element by element, while your developer moves them into the source.