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Seviranta vs. AudioEye: lasting code fixes or a temporary overlay?

Prepare your platform for enforcement of the European Accessibility Act. Discover the fundamental difference between a permanent repair in your own source code and a dynamic JavaScript layer in the browser.

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Two schools of thought, and why the EAA shifts the choice

Digital accessibility broadly comes in two approaches: temporarily masking errors in the browser (an overlay) or structurally repairing the source code. Now that the European Accessibility Act is enforceable since mid-2025, IT directors and legal counsels increasingly choose the permanent route. The reason is technical: an overlay places a JavaScript layer over your site, but often doesn't truly remove the underlying barriers for assistive tools like screen readers, something the Overlay Fact Sheet, signed by over 800 accessibility experts, has pointed out for years.

Strategic aspectSevirantaAudioEye
Approach & impactPermanent repairs in your own source code. The error is genuinely fixed and stays fixed, even if you stop the software. Your investment stays in your own code, with no vendor lock-in.A temporary JavaScript layer that corrects the page in the browser. Stop the licence and the adjustment disappears, leaving the barrier back in place.
Legislation & EU hostingAligned with the European Accessibility Act and EN 301 549, the European standard. Customer data and scans run in the EU (Frankfurt).Originally built for US ADA legislation; AudioEye announced expansion toward the EU and the EAA in 2025.
Transparency & evidenceaxe-core, the global industry standard that also powers Google Lighthouse and Microsoft Accessibility Insights, reproducible by anyone. We split the result: ~57% reliably automated, ~43% human judgement. You get a retainable compliance record.A proprietary engine with a claim of up to ~97% automation, based on its own 'Trusted Certification', a private label, not an official standard.
Pricing modelTransparent, fixed monthly prices (€69, €699) based on pages and scan frequency. No surprises as your traffic grows.Price on request via a sales process; rates are typically based on visitor numbers in this market.
AI Act transparency checkYes, as a second product on the same platform: chatbot disclosure duty (Article 50) tested, disclosure text delivered, AI register as proof. € 29/mo (excl. VAT), standalone or with any plan.No AI Act transparency check in the published offering (as of July 2026).

An overlay won't keep you out of court

Figures from the US, the market where overlay widgets have been running longest and most widely, show what such a layer is worth in legal terms:

  • 5,114

    digital accessibility lawsuits filed in the US in 2025, a multi-year record (UsableNet count).

  • nearly 70%

    of those hit e-commerce: online stores are by far the most frequently sued segment.

  • 1 in 4

    sites sued were already running an overlay widget at the time of the lawsuit (end of 2024: 25%).

The most striking source is AudioEye itself: its own 2026 Web Accessibility Litigation Report states that 38.5% of the organizations sued had already installed an accessibility widget or toolbar. The figures above therefore do not come only from critics; the overlay vendors report these numbers themselves.

The barriers sit in the code, and plaintiffs and judges look at the code. On top of that, in 2025 the US FTC fined a major overlay vendor for claiming that its widget makes sites WCAG-compliant. So anyone leaning on an overlay is paying the license fee while the risk simply keeps running, and now that the European Accessibility Act is enforceable in the EU, that difference is no longer a detail. Structural code repair removes the cause itself; that is exactly what you build with Seviranta, with a dossier you can keep as evidence.

Why 100% automated compliance is a myth

No AI fully understands the context of a page. A machine sees whether an image has alt text; only a human judges whether that text actually conveys the meaning. That's why Seviranta splits the result: ~57% we fix automatically, ~43% we put to human judgement. This prevents false certainty and helps you demonstrably comply with the European Accessibility Act, with a dossier that backs it up.

Choose Seviranta if you…

  • want a lasting solution that stays in your code, not a layer that disappears the moment you stop.
  • comply with the European standard: the EAA and EN 301 549, with data in the EU (Frankfurt).
  • you want transparency: open-source axe-core, a transparent 57/43 split and a retainable dossier.
  • want a fixed, predictable price (€69, €699) without a sales process or surprises as you grow.

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