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In April 2025, the Federal Trade Commission finalized a $1 million order against accessiBe over the company's marketing claims about its accessWidget. If that's why you're here, this is the short version of what a code-first alternative looks like.

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The April 2025 FTC order, in one paragraph

On April 22, 2025, the FTC finalized an order against accessiBe and its CEO, including a $1 million monetary judgment. According to the FTC's complaint and press release, the agency alleged the company made unsubstantiated claims that its accessWidget product would make a website WCAG-compliant. The order prohibits the covered parties from making such claims without competent and reliable evidence and requires notice to affected customers. accessiBe has publicly disputed characterizations of the product; the order itself is the primary document.[1]

Why this page exists: we're not the FTC, and this isn't a legal opinion. We're a source-code remediation shop, and a growing share of our inbound is from businesses who read the FTC's order and wanted a different approach. This page explains what that different approach looks like.
Quick Comparison

Allied Accessibility vs. accessiBe

A fact-based comparison using each vendor's own public product description.

Allied Accessibility accessiBe (accessWidget)
Primary product Human-performed source-code remediation accessWidget — AI-driven JavaScript overlay[2]
Pricing model One-time project fee, from $2,500 Subscription, tiered by site traffic[2]
What gets modified Your HTML, CSS & JavaScript, directly Runtime DOM, via a script loaded on your site
FTC enforcement history None Final order & $1M judgment, April 2025[1]
Works without vendor script Yes No — remove the tag, lose the fixes
Best fit Owner-operated sites, ~15–50 pages Very large sites with high content velocity
What the Record Shows

The Regulatory and Litigation Picture

Facts on the public record, with primary-source links.

FTC order, April 2025

$1M order against accessiBe over marketing claims about accessWidget's WCAG-compliance capabilities. FTC press release.

Overlays don't prevent suits

Per the UsableNet 2025 report, approximately 22.6% of federal ADA web lawsuits filed in 2025 targeted sites that already had an accessibility widget installed. Report.

Overlay Fact Sheet

More than 800 accessibility professionals, developers, and disability advocates have signed the Overlay Fact Sheet, which names accessiBe among the overlay products it documents concerns about. overlayfactsheet.com.

Screen reader user feedback

WebAIM's most recent Screen Reader User Survey found a majority of respondents reported that overlay widgets made sites harder to use rather than easier. WebAIM survey.

What moving from accessiBe to source-code remediation looks like

  1. Free WCAG 2.2 AA report. We scan your site and grade it A–F against the same standard accessiBe markets to, so you can see baseline conformance with and without the widget running.
  2. Fixed-fee remediation. We edit the site's actual HTML, CSS, JS, and templates — no widget, no runtime patching. All work is delivered into your repo or a staging branch we hand back to you.
  3. Remove the script, cancel the subscription. Once source-level fixes are deployed and validated, the accessWidget tag comes off. The accessibility work stays.

Sources

  1. Federal Trade Commission, FTC Finalizes Order Against AudioEye's Competitor accessiBe, April 22, 2025. ftc.gov. Order and complaint documents linked from the press release.
  2. accessiBe — product description of accessWidget and subscription pricing tiers as published on accessibe.com.
  3. UsableNet, 2025 ADA Web and App Accessibility Lawsuit Report. info.usablenet.com.
  4. Overlay Fact Sheet, signatory list and vendor list. overlayfactsheet.com.
  5. WebAIM, Screen Reader User Survey #10. webaim.org.

This page is a comparison based on publicly available information and primary-source regulatory filings. "accessiBe" and "accessWidget" are trademarks of accessiBe Ltd.; their use here is nominative-fair-use for comparison purposes. accessiBe has publicly disputed characterizations of its product; the FTC order itself is the primary document.

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