UserWay is an accessibility widget. EqualWeb is a complete accessibility platform - an AI widget plus certified IAAP/CPWA experts, managed compliance with liability & warranty, a full PDF accessibility suite, and 24/7 monitoring. Compare for yourself.
The short version: if all you need is a widget, both companies sell one. Everything past the widget - human remediation, legal-grade documentation, accessible PDFs, monitoring - is where the comparison gets one-sided.
Side-by-side comparison
EqualWeb products and services, next to what UserWay offers.
Capability
EqualWeb
UserWay
Accessibility widget
AI-powered accessibility widget
Accessibility profiles & assistive tools
100+ interface languages
Full branding control (colors, icon, position)
Partial
Human expertise
Certified IAAP/CPWA experts in-house
—
Expert manual remediation of complex content
Limited
Accessibility training for your team
—
Managed Compliance
Fully managed compliance program
—
Liability & Warranty
—
Litigation support with expert documentation
—
Signed compliance certificate & VPAT/ACR
Partial
PDF & document accessibility
Free PDF accessibility checker (80+ checks, 0-100 score)
—
AI auto-remediation of PDFs
—
Expert manual PDF remediation
Services
Accessible in-browser PDF viewer
—
PDF Audit REST API
—
PDF integrations: WordPress, Drupal, Moodle, Shopify, Canvas LMS
—
Cloud Connect: SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, S3-compatible storage
—
Batch processing - up to 1,000 PDFs at a time
—
Testing & monitoring
24/7 monitoring with a live 0-100 compliance score
Partial
Full-domain accessibility crawler
Partial
Lawsuit-risk rating
—
Trust
ISO/IEC 27001 certified
GDPR & CCPA aligned
G2 rating
4.6
What the industry says about widget-only accessibility
Public positions - judge for yourself.
Practitioners' consensus
Hundreds of accessibility practitioners have publicly cautioned that automated widgets alone cannot make a website conform to WCAG - complex structure, forms and judgment calls require human remediation.
Advocacy organizations
The National Federation of the Blind resolved in 2021 that reliance on automated widget solutions alone does not deliver equal access for blind users.
Litigation data
Industry litigation tracking shows 25%+ of companies sued over web accessibility already had an accessibility widget installed - a widget alone is not a legal strategy.
Our takeaway: widgets are a real part of the answer - EqualWeb ships one too. They are just not the whole answer. Human experts, document accessibility, monitoring and documentation complete the coverage.
Why teams switch to EqualWeb
The three gaps a widget alone cannot close.
Documents are part of compliance
WCAG, ADA and the EAA apply to your PDFs too. EqualWeb ships a free PDF checker, AI auto-remediation, an accessible viewer, an API and 16 platform integrations. No widget vendor offers automated PDF tooling.
Automation has a ceiling
Automated fixes resolve the mechanical majority - complex tables, forms and judgment calls need people. EqualWeb employs certified IAAP/CPWA experts in-house who finish the work, certify it, and stand behind it with liability & warranty and litigation support.
Compliance is ongoing
Sites change daily. EqualWeb's 24/7 monitoring tracks a live 0-100 compliance score across your whole domain, rates legal risk, and catches regressions before a complaint does.
See the whole platform in one meeting
A 30-minute walkthrough of the widget, managed compliance, PDF suite and monitoring - with your own site and documents on screen. Free accessibility checks included, no credit card required.
Comparison based on publicly available information, August 2026, and subject to change. All product and company names are trademarks of their respective holders; UserWay is a trademark of UserWay Inc. (a Level Access company). EqualWeb is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by UserWay. No accessibility product makes an organization legally compliant on its own; EqualWeb supports and documents your accessibility program.