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Remedify vs. an accessibility scanner: a to-do list, or fixes in your store?
Not every accessibility competitor is an overlay widget. A growing number are scanners: apps that crawl your storefront, grade it, and return a prioritized list of issues — often bundled alongside SEO auditing and session replays as an all-in-one 'store health' app.
Seeing the issue inventory is a genuine first step, and Remedify scans too. The difference is what happens next: a scanner stops at the list, while Remedify proposes and applies the reviewed fixes and keeps a dated record of the work.
| Dimension | Scanner / report app | Real, code-level fix |
|---|---|---|
| Where the fix lives | Scanner apps audit your storefront and return a prioritized issue list, but they change nothing — every fix is left for you or a developer to make by hand. | Remedify uses reviewed data writes, additive app-embed behavior, and guided theme changes so corrections live in the storefront workflow instead of a masking widget. |
| What screen readers and keyboards see | Whatever the theme already renders. A report tells you what is wrong, but assistive tech still meets the original markup until someone actually fixes it. | Assistive tech reads the corrected, semantic markup directly, because that is what the theme now ships. |
| Auditability | You get a scan grade and an issue list — a record of what was detected, not what was changed, because a scan does not change anything. | Every change is shown as a before/after diff you approve before it ships, and is kept in a dated record of the fixes you applied. |
| Storefront performance | A scan runs out of band and adds nothing to the shopper page — but it also improves nothing on its own; the storefront is unchanged until the work is done. | No shopper-facing overlay layer. Data and guided theme fixes are static markup; the optional app embed is a small additive script you control from your theme editor. |
| Ownership after you leave | Uninstall a scanner and you keep only the last report. Nothing in the storefront was changed, so there is nothing to take with you. | Uninstall Remedify and your approved alt-text and data changes stay in your store; guided theme edits you applied are yours to keep, and the additive app embed is removed cleanly. |
| What we claim | Some scanners are bundled with broad protection or monitoring promises that regulators have publicly questioned. | We promise real, reviewable fixes and a dated record of the work — never a legal or conformance outcome, which no tool can honestly promise. |
A scan tells you what is wrong; the value is in fixing it and being able to show what changed. Remedify does the remediation and keeps the dated record — never a promise of a legal or conformance outcome.