Alternatives to Tanaguru Engine

An automated accessibility testing engine that checks websites and web applications against RGAA and WCAG. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Tanaguru Engine.

  • WAVE

    A suite of web accessibility evaluation tools, available online and as browser extensions.

    FreemiumProprietaryWebBrowser extension

    WAVE shows accessibility issues in place on the page through online tools and Chrome, Firefox and Edge extensions, with bulk and CI testing through a paid API or engine.

  • axe DevTools

    Accessibility testing tools and browser extension from Deque, built on the axe-core rules engine.

    FreemiumProprietaryWebBrowser extension

    axe DevTools runs Deque's axe-core rules in the browser with IDE, CI and mobile toolkits, but checks WCAG rather than the French RGAA and advanced features are enterprise products.

  • Rocket Validator

    A hosted crawler that runs HTML, CSS and accessibility checks across thousands of site pages.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    Rocket Validator is a paid hosted crawler running accessibility and HTML checks on up to 5,000 pages per report, with scheduling and an API, instead of a self-hosted engine.

  • EXPERTE Accessibility Checker

    An online checker that crawls a website and tests each page for accessibility problems.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    EXPERTE Accessibility Checker is a free online tool that crawls a whole public site with 41 checks, needing no installation but covering fewer tests than the roughly 380 in Tanaguru.

  • SortSite

    Website quality scanner testing accessibility, broken links, browser compatibility and SEO against over 1200 checkpoints.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    SortSite combines accessibility with broken link, compatibility and SEO checks across over 1200 checkpoints, though the free demo covers only the first 10 pages.

  • AccessMonitor

    A Portuguese government web service that checks web pages against WCAG 2.1 accessibility practices.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    AccessMonitor is a free Portuguese government web service checking pages against WCAG 2.1 with a 0 to 10 score, with an interface mainly in Portuguese.

  • AChecker

    Online accessibility checker that tests a URL, uploaded file or pasted HTML against WCAG and Section 508.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    AChecker is a free online checker accepting a URL, file or pasted HTML against WCAG and Section 508, but its guidelines stop at WCAG 2.0.

  • ARC Toolkit

    Browser extension from TPGi that finds accessibility issues on individual web pages.

    FreeProprietaryBrowser extension

    ARC Toolkit is a free TPGi browser extension using the ARC rules engine on the current page, checking one page at a time rather than whole sites.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Tanaguru Engine as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Asqatasun

    Open-source, self-hosted engine that audits web pages and whole sites for accessibility and SEO.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Tanaguru Engine is also self-hosted and covers RGAA and WCAG with about 380 automated tests, but it is not open source and licence details are unstated.

  • IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker

    IBM's open-source browser extension and toolkit for automated accessibility checks of web pages.

    FreeOpen sourceBrowser extensionCommand line

    Tanaguru Engine is self-hosted and automates about 380 tests against RGAA and WCAG across whole sites, though licence details are unclear and its page is mainly French.

  • Pa11y

    Open-source command-line and dashboard tools that test web pages for accessibility issues automatically.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostedCommand line

    Tanaguru Engine is a self-hosted engine automating about 380 tests against RGAA and WCAG, though licence details are unstated and its page is mostly French.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.