A free alternative to axe DevTools
A developer-oriented accessibility testing toolkit built on the open-source axe-core engine, available as a browser extension and as libraries you can run in automated tests.
What axe DevTools does well
- axe-core is the de facto standard automated accessibility engine — it's what many other tools run underneath.
- Integrates into unit and end-to-end tests, so accessibility regressions fail a build.
- Low false-positive rate by design, which matters when a team has to act on every finding.
Where it stops
- Accessibility only, and aimed squarely at developers.
- Delivers findings to fix rather than a health score you can share with a non-technical stakeholder.
What MyWebsiteScore adds
- A shareable scored report for people who don't read test output.
- Six more dimensions beyond accessibility, in one run.
- Nothing to install or wire into a pipeline.
Which should you use?
If you have a development team and want accessibility enforced in CI, use axe. Catching regressions automatically at build time beats any periodic audit, including ours.