In short
According to its own description, Eye-Able bundles tools to test, improve, document and monitor accessibility, and also offers manual testing and consulting. Accessonaut is a leaner tool for small teams and agencies: a free start, published monthly prices, findings with their location, a statement and monitoring. If you need expert services from one vendor, Eye-Able offers them. If you want to do the work yourself, Accessonaut gives you a direct workflow.
What Eye-Able offers
According to Eye-Able’s public pages, the offer includes:
- Platform: Bundles tools to test, improve, document and continuously monitor web accessibility. Source: Platform at Eye-Able
- Assist: Assistive widget with more than 25 functions according to the vendor, added via a JavaScript snippet. Source: Assist at Eye-Able
- Access: AI-based suggestions that are applied on the website via JavaScript after approval, without changes to code or CMS. Eye-Able describes Access as an interim solution. Source: Access at Eye-Able
- Report and Audit: Weekly website scans, monitoring and a dashboard, plus a browser plugin for automated checks. Source: Report and Audit at Eye-Able
- Accessibility statement: Generator for the accessibility statement with HTML output and specific texts for Germany, Austria, Italy and Poland. Source: Accessibility statement at Eye-Able
- Manual testing: Testing by experts against WCAG, EN 301 549 and BITV/BFSG, including testers with disabilities. Source: Manual testing at Eye-Able
- Further services: Including consulting and training, plain language and accessible PDFs. Source: Further services at Eye-Able
How the approaches differ
Eye-Able combines several layers: a widget for visitors, fixes that take effect in the browser, automated checks and expert services. This makes improvements visible before the source code has been changed.
Accessonaut starts with the cause: scan pages, understand findings with their location and WCAG reference, fix them in the source code or CMS, check again and keep the accessibility statement up to date. Our widget is optional and offers personal reading aids. It does not repair the source code.
The two approaches are not mutually exclusive. In any case, fixes made directly in the website are the ones that last. Eye-Able says the same about Access: the long-term goal should be a clean code base.
Ein Barrierefreiheits-Widget sorgt für bessere Zugänglichkeit, bietet aber keine hundertprozentige WCAG-Konformität (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), EAA- oder BITV-Konformität.Translation: An accessibility widget improves accessibility but does not provide one hundred percent WCAG, EAA or BITV conformance.
Source: Eye-Able: Assist (German)
Features compared
The table summarises both vendors’ public information as of 14 November 2026. It rates neither quality nor legal effectiveness. The vendors’ current information and contracts are authoritative.
| Area | Eye-Able | Accessonaut |
|---|---|---|
| Provider and seat | Web Inclusion GmbH, Würzburg (Germany) Source: Provider and seat at Eye-Able | rocket-ship, Ulm (Germany) |
| Getting started | 14-day free trial without a credit card; free accessibility check Source: Getting started at Eye-Able | Free website check without an account; permanently free Free plan (1 project) with a visible Accessonaut link in the widget |
| Published prices | No price list found on the website; offer from the vendor | Free €0, Standard €9, Pro €19, Business €49 per month. All prices are final prices in euros. As a small business under § 19 of the German VAT Act (UStG), we do not charge VAT. |
| Automated testing | Eye-Able Report with weekly website scans and a dashboard; Eye-Able Audit as a browser plugin Source: Automated testing at Eye-Able | Scans of up to 200 pages (depending on the plan); findings with location, WCAG reference, priority and re-check |
| Monitoring | Daily, weekly or monthly scans; exports including PDF and CSV Source: Monitoring at Eye-Able | Recurring checks from Pro |
| Widget for visitors | Assist: assistive widget with more than 25 functions Source: Widget for visitors at Eye-Able | Optional widget with personal reading aids for visitors |
| Automatic adjustments in the browser | Access: AI suggestions applied on the website via JavaScript after approval Source: Automatic adjustments in the browser at Eye-Able | No automatic repair of the source code. Approved alt text can optionally be delivered through the widget |
| Manual evaluation | Manual testing by experts, including testers with disabilities Source: Manual evaluation at Eye-Able | Checklist for your own manual review; no expert audits |
| Accessibility statement | Generator for the accessibility statement with texts for Germany, Austria, Italy and Poland Source: Accessibility statement at Eye-Able | Versioned statement with scan status, approval, public link, embedding and annual reminder |
| Installation | Including WordPress, Drupal, TYPO3, Joomla, Shopify, Magento, React, Angular, Vue, Salesforce and Adobe Experience Manager Source: Installation at Eye-Able | WordPress connector, WooCommerce plugin and installation guides for other platforms |
| Plain language and easy read | Plain language (Einfache Sprache) offer; no easy read (Leichte Sprache) Source: Plain language and easy read at Eye-Able | AI drafts in plain language with editing and approval; no certified easy read |
| Services | Consulting and training, accessible PDFs, translation Source: Services at Eye-Able | No audits, training or consulting; focus on doing it yourself |
Prices according to the vendors
Eye-Able
We found no public price list on eye-able.com. Eye-Able offers a 14-day free trial; ask the vendor for prices and contract terms. Source: Prices according to the vendors at Eye-Able
Accessonaut
Free €0, Standard €9, Pro €19, Business €49 per month. All prices are final prices in euros. As a small business under § 19 of the German VAT Act (UStG), we do not charge VAT.
View all Accessonaut plansThe pricing models differ: page views, visits, domains, projects or scans. Compare the price for your actual needs. Prices can change; the vendors’ own information is authoritative.
When Eye-Able may fit better
- You want manual expert testing, tests with people with disabilities, consulting or training from the same vendor.
- You want to mitigate barriers temporarily with JavaScript fixes while the source code is being reworked.
- Your website runs on systems such as Adobe Experience Manager or Salesforce, or you need a Jira export for the development team.
When Accessonaut fits
- You want to start for free and know the prices before talking to sales.
- Your team fixes findings itself in the CMS or source code and needs locations, priorities, re-checks and reports for that.
- You maintain an accessibility statement with a documented review status and an annual reminder.
- A reading-aid widget is an addition for you, not the core of your accessibility work.
What independent bodies say about overlay tools
- The German federal and state monitoring bodies write in their joint assessment (March 2025):
Ein nicht barrierefreier Webauftritt wird durch den Einsatz eines Overlay-Tools nicht zwingend barrierefrei gemäß den gesetzlichen Anforderungen.
(An inaccessible website does not necessarily become accessible under the legal requirements by using an overlay tool.) Source: BFIT-Bund: assessment of the monitoring bodies on overlay tools (March 2025, German) - The German Federal Accessibility Agency (Bundesfachstelle Barrierefreiheit) states that an online shop cannot meet its digital accessibility obligations under the BFSG with an overlay tool. Source: Bundesfachstelle Barrierefreiheit: e-commerce and the BFSG (German)
- In 2023, the European Disability Forum (EDF) and the IAAP stated that overlays do not make a website accessible or compliant with European legislation and are no substitute for fixing the website itself. Source: EDF and IAAP: Accessibility overlays don’t guarantee compliance with European legislation (2023)
- The W3C points out that evaluation tools cannot determine accessibility, they can only assist. This also applies to automated scans like ours. Source: W3C WAI: Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- The Overlay Fact Sheet, a statement signed by more than a thousand accessibility practitioners and organisations, advises against using overlays as a long-term solution. Source: Overlay Fact Sheet
These assessments concern overlay and widget solutions in general, including the Accessonaut reading-aid widget. That is why our widget is optional and does not replace fixes in the source code.
Sources and method
We opened the public pages listed here on 14 November 2026 and summarised the information. Quotes are verbatim. We have not tested the vendors’ software ourselves. Accessonaut is itself a provider and the publisher of this comparison.
Information from Eye-Able
- Eye-Able: home page (German)
- Eye-Able: imprint (German)
- Eye-Able: platform (German)
- Eye-Able: Assist (German)
- Eye-Able: Access (German)
- Eye-Able: Audit & Report (German)
- Eye-Able: statement generator (German)
- Eye-Able: manual testing (German)
- Eye-Able: integration (German)
- Eye-Able: free trial (German)
- Eye-Able: consulting (German)
- Eye-Able: plain language (German)
Independent sources
- BFIT-Bund: assessment of the monitoring bodies on overlay tools (March 2025, German)
- Bundesfachstelle Barrierefreiheit: e-commerce and the BFSG (German)
- EDF and IAAP: Accessibility overlays don’t guarantee compliance with European legislation (2023)
- W3C WAI: Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- Overlay Fact Sheet
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