A free alternative to WAVE
A well-established accessibility evaluation tool from WebAIM that overlays errors and alerts directly on your page, showing exactly which element has which problem.
What WAVE does well
- Visual, in-page feedback — it shows you the offending element rather than describing it in a list.
- Built by WebAIM, a genuinely authoritative source on web accessibility.
- Explains the reasoning behind each issue, so you learn accessibility rather than just patching it.
- Free to use, with a browser extension for pages behind a login.
Where it stops
- Accessibility only. It isn't looking at your search visibility, response time, or whether the page converts.
- Automated checks catch a portion of accessibility problems; keyboard and screen-reader testing still needs a human.
What MyWebsiteScore adds
- Accessibility scored as one of seven dimensions, so it sits in context with everything else.
- A single report covering search, speed, security, trust, and conversion in one pass.
- Weekly monitoring, so a regression after a redesign doesn't go unnoticed.
Which should you use?
If accessibility is the task — remediating a site, working toward WCAG conformance, or learning the subject — use WAVE. It goes far deeper on accessibility than our single dimension does, and we'd point you there for that work.