An honest comparison
A widget in your footer is not a record
Industry trackers report that roughly a quarter of the websites sued over accessibility already had one of those overlay widgets installed. The promise that a single line of code fixes accessibility has already been tested by the market, and it did not hold.
What you actually get asked
- What did you know?
- When did you know it?
- What did you do about it?
A widget cannot answer any of those. A dated history of what you checked, what you found, and what you fixed answers all three.
Side by side
| What matters | Overlay widget | Curbcut |
|---|---|---|
| Changes your storefront code | Yes — a script on every page | Never |
| Claims your store is compliant | Often, which is the risky part | Never does |
| Dated history you can check | Rarely | Every check, every fix |
| Shows when a problem first appeared | No | First seen and fixed dates |
| Something to hand a lawyer | A marketing PDF | A dated report, emailed to you |
| Public statement with a way to report problems | Sometimes | Growth and Pro |
| Slows your storefront down | Usually a little | Not at all — nothing is added |
Why this is the line we draw
In 2025 the US Federal Trade Commission acted against a company that sold an accessibility overlay, over claims that it made websites meet accessibility standards. The problem was not the existence of the tool. The problem was promising an outcome the tool could not deliver.
So we sell the thing we can actually deliver: a dated record of what was checked, when, and what changed. We will never claim your store meets the ADA, WCAG, or any other standard. Our checks look at the code of your pages for six common problems — that is a useful place to start, and it is not a full audit.