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accessiBe alternative for agencies
Looking for an accessiBe alternative? You're not alone — accessiBe's "AI-powered overlay" pitch drew a well-publicized FTC enforcement action in 2023 over compliance claims the overlay couldn't back up, and a wave of scrutiny toward the whole overlay-widget category since. If you're an agency that got burned recommending an overlay to a client, or you just don't want to be the next case study, here's the structural difference worth understanding before you pick a replacement.
Overlay vs. remediation — a different bet entirely
An accessibility overlay sits on top of your site and tries to patch issues at runtime with JavaScript — re-labeling elements, adjusting contrast, intercepting keyboard focus. It doesn't touch your codebase, which is the selling point and the problem: overlays can't fix structural issues (broken heading order, missing form associations, genuinely inaccessible custom components), and screen-reader users have been vocal for years that overlays often make their experience worse, not better.
Gangway doesn't ship an overlay. It's a remediation platform: it scans a client's real site, finds real WCAG issues with selectors and code snippets, and hands them to whoever maintains the codebase to actually fix — then verifies the fix with a rescan. The fix lives in the site's real markup, not a JavaScript patch layered on top that stops working the moment a user's browser blocks third-party scripts.
For an agency specifically
- You bill the fix, not just the scan. Findings with selectors and snippets are exactly what a developer needs to open a PR — this is billable remediation work, not a subscription you resell and hope nobody asks what it actually does.
- Evidence that survives scrutiny. Every status change is logged in an append-only audit trail; remediation reports and accessibility statements are generated from that trail, not written to sound reassuring.
- No compliance claims to defend. Gangway's own positioning — see what Gangway is not — explicitly refuses to claim a site is "compliant." That's not a marketing weakness; it's the position that doesn't get you an FTC letter.
Pricing
Solo $29/mo, Agency $79/mo, Scale $199/mo — flat, per workspace, no per-client seats. 14-day trial, no card required.