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Certvo vs UserWay: which actually makes you compliant?

UserWay sells an overlay widget plus a separate AI Remediation product. Certvo takes a different approach: we audit the underlying HTML and return code patches you can review and ship. Here is the honest comparison, including where UserWay is the better choice.

Their pricing
Free tier (limited); paid plans from $49/mo.
Their approach
Overlay widget for end-user customisation; AI Remediation modifies source via injected scripts.
Our approach
AI audit + code patches in your repo
Our pricing
Free public scan; from $29/mo for monitoring

What UserWay does well

  • Free tier exists

  • AI Remediation goes beyond pure overlay

Where UserWay falls short

Every accessibility vendor has a target customer and a target solution. UserWay's shape works for some teams and badly for others. The points below come up most often when buyers move off UserWay and what they wish they had asked sooner.

  • Same overlay-vendor legal risks as accessiBe

  • Per-domain billing

  • Does not produce code reviewable by your team

Why teams pick Certvo instead

  • Code fixes returned as patches, not injected scripts

  • Per-issue WCAG mapping

  • No widget required; underlying HTML is what we fix

Try a free public scan on the same URL you would test with UserWay. Compare what each tool says is wrong and how each proposes to fix it.

When you should still pick the other tool

Bluntly: if the only thing you need is a visible widget on your site (e.g. as part of a settlement consent decree that names a specific overlay product), an overlay vendor is the path of least resistance. Certvo does not ship a widget. We give you patches; the widget is only a UI for the audit.

If you have an enterprise procurement process that already has a long-running contract with a competitor and the buying motion would take six months to switch, you can use Certvo alongside as the audit-and-fix tool while the widget keeps sitting on the page.

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