This site makes me rather nervous and here's why:

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\- From the get go, it reminds me of AccessiBe, but mostly due to the screamy marketing. This is not an overlay by the looks of it, but the strong reliance on AI and machine learning for remediation sounds a little iffy.

\- Websites are not static, they are dynamic. This company will happily make your website accessible, I appreciate that humans are involved in that process because , for example, meaningful alt texts could never be left to just an AI at the current level of technology, but the actual developers aren't taught a thing by this approach, meaning that any content added after the remediation may very well not be accessible anymore.

\- The number of pages is quite clearly inflated; if you read between the lines you can see that websites they serve include CMS-based websites. Those are blogs, news publications, eCommerce websites. Sites where every post, product, promotion etc. is its own page. If you have a shop with 2000 products, that's 2000 pages extra and at that point the numbers add up pretty quickly.

\- A quick glance through their website doesn't reveal to me if people with disabilities are actually being used to test the finished products, and if anyone in these human remediation teams has a disability. If not, what does human remediation mean? A person who knows what a heading is? How were these people trained, if at all? What happens when the current website's design hampers the accessibility remediation effort, is there creative dialogue?

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A company using a service like this is NOT putting in effort, but we can attribute that they have at least thought about the issue which is good, which is why I really hope these guys are actually good. In the wake of AccessiBe and friends though, I have become extremely suspicious of these kinds of claims.

Wow, this is incredible. In my experience I have not noticed many sites that have accessibility options. I also like the descriptions they have provided for said products. If you are going to see accessibility settings on websites it is commonly changing contrast, otherwise you dont have much customization. If i am being honest, I have my own website for adapted sports for the blind, and I have included accessibility features but even I didn't include this many. Super impressive, its nice to see different businesses actually making an effort.

Beware of any and all web software like this. It all gets promoted as an easy "solution" for sites to prevent ADA lawsuits but does not actually make the site compliant. It also makes the site owners think they are covered and continues to promote bad and non-inclusive design decisions because they think they are covered. A large majority of these AI based overlays and tools are developed without any actual input from disabled users, and they are only using it as a ploy to spread and make more money in bad faith banking on ignorance of accessibility standards and fear of lawsuits to get people to buy into their awful malware. It seems nice at first, but ultimately it conflicts with a lot of assistive technology, and practically all of the accessibility options these companies offer are already on your system ready to go.

Screen readers already read properly coded websites. All operating systems have Zoom, Color filters, magnification, color inversion, and contrast adjustments. All browsers and systems have user-level control over text sizing, typeface, etc. It's much better in the long run to have companies actually focus on doing things right rather than just putting a band-aid on an open wound.

https://overlayfactsheet.com

Nice! I’ve come across several websites where there’s some control you have to activate to enable screen reader mode, but it wasn’t to provide an enhanced or customized experience. From what I gather, it was just to make the damn thing accessible at all LOL. In my opinion a well-designed site shouldn’t need an accessibility mode because if they follow the principles of universal design and accessibility best practices, the website should be welcoming and easy to use for everybody, disabled or not.
In this case though, sounds like they are really going above and beyond providing some customization options which is super cool.

There's even an option to send feedback and request additional accessibility options. Pretty amazing to be honest, and it seems that they use a third party for this based in Israel. They list 54,679 websites as using their technology.
https://www.equalweb.com/