Kris Rivenburgh relates accessibility overlay widgets as fake accessibility.  Overlays are fugazi.  They're meant to give the illusion of accessibility, but everyone in accessibility knows overlays don't make websites accessible or WCAG conformant (or ADA compliant).

There are no widgets, apps, plugins, toolbars, software, etc. that can make a website to be accessible or WCAG conformant (and the AI is a  sales trick, this refers to image recognition software that does a  horrible job identifying and describing images).

Karl Groves' resources on accessibility overlays demonstrably prove this:

Watch how AccessiBe features a State Farm logo as social proof but it's actually linked to a page selling novelties with State Farm logos, not the insurance giant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7hd3t7HckE

Read Kris's landmark article on ADA website compliance: 

https://krisrivenburgh.medium.com/the-ada-checklist-website-compliance-guidelines-for-2019-in-plain-english-123c1d58fad9

Kris designed the ADA Compliance Course (ACC) as instructions you can give your team to fix the most commonly claimed issues in ADA website lawsuits. The ACC is really an SOP for your web team. Your team can get started in minutes at https://ADACompliance.net/.

Watch Kris on YouTube @adabook:

https://youtube.com/@adabook

Connect with Kris directly on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/adabook 

The ADA Compliance Course is available at https://ADACompliance.net.

Kris offers accessibility services including WCAG 2.1 AA manual audits and remediation at https://accessible.org.

Kris also wrote the book on ADA compliance for digital assets.  You can find out more about The ADA Book at https://ADABook.com.

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