UserWay.org

Name: UserWay.org
Rating: 3.0 (5 reviews)

Innovative website accessibility technologies

3.0•5 reviews•

596 followers

Innovative website accessibility technologies

3.0•5 reviews•

596 followers

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UserWay: Elevate Web Accessibility Making the digital world accessible to all, UserWay ensures your website is accessible and usable by everyone, including those with disabilities. With our cutting-edge tools and commitment to inclusivity: - Fine-tune remediations via our user-friendly console. - Experience a more ADA compliant user experience, keeping your audience engaged. - Automatic, hassle-free adaptations for assistive technology users. Make the web accessible for everyone with UserWay.

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I found this great service linked on another site and was blown away by how easy it is to open your site to people who need extra assistance.

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7yr ago

3.0

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UserWay.org receives mixed reviews for its web accessibility solutions. Many users praise its AI-powered tools for efficiently addressing accessibility issues, describing it as user-friendly and effective. However, some industry professionals criticize the tool for providing inaccurate accessibility advice, suggesting that it may be based on unreliable data. They recommend improvements in training data and transparency. Despite these concerns, UserWay.org is appreciated for its commitment to inclusivity and is used successfully by organizations like university departments to enhance website accessibility.

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3.0

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bad accessibility advice (2)

incorrect ARIA usage (2)

unreliable information (2)

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As someone who works in this industry, I knew that an AI tool would eventually appear to tackle this challenge. It's fair to acknowledge that writing accessible code is challenging, especially when many developers and tech professionals aren't trained or educated in the topic. However, this is not it. I'd call on UserWay to publish their training data and assessment criteria to understand why this tool performs the way it does. For someone who understands accessibility, this might save some time, but every output of the tests I did required significant work to improve to meet basic accessibility requirements. In AI everything depends on what the engine is trained on. 96% of the web has accessibility issues, or is completely inaccessible. If UserWay trained this on standard websites, or just derived this out of ChatGPT, we have an issue of "garbage in, garbage out". We can't expect reliable information from a model trained on inaccessible content. I did three tests: 1. Generate a text entry for a 2-factor authentication component, that accepts only numbers with a maximum of 6 2. Generate a login component where the password has standard requirements that I provided 3. Generate a "sign up for our newsletter" popup with an option to close and skip All three had issues, with 2 being the most worrisome using a `title` attribute to convey essential information to users (but only screen reader users for some reason). All three had unneccessary `aria-label` attributes applied, which would make the components nearly unusuable for voice control users.

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bad accessibility advice (2)incorrect ARIA usage (2)unreliable information (2)

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Thank you for your in-depth review, Wendy. We appreciate your feedback and we are sorry your experience with FixMycode was not as you expected. We are working on improving both FixMyCode's model, its results, and its user experience. It seems you have some important insights you could share with us. If you have any suggestions on how to improve FixMyCode, please join the conversation on our discord :-)

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3yr ago

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This is not a good tool in its current state. Because OpenAI has scraped the web indiscriminately, its output includes many of the errors and bad advice that are so common across the web and make accessibility so difficult for developers to master. A better tool would have been trained on vetted resources; instead, this one just regurgitates bad information. For example, a button used to toggle visibility should be marked up using the button tag instead of a link, but many front end frameworks incorrectly use links for this purpose, and this tool recommends that you do, too. (Google "Button Cheat Sheet" for a pithy explanation of why this is a problem.) This is just one example; the tool also adds incorrect ARIA in ways that will actually prevent users of assistive technologies from operating interactive controls. Bad accessibility advice makes the web even less accessible than it already is.

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bad accessibility advice (2)incorrect ARIA usage (2)unreliable information (2)

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Thank you for your review, Stephanie. We appreciate your feedback and we are sorry your experience with FixMycode was not as you expected. We are working on improving both FixMyCode's model, its results, and its user experience. If you have any suggestions on how to improve FixMyCode, please join the conversation on our discord: https://discord.gg/CKUD9HtB

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3yr ago