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Selenium Grid in the Cloud vs accessiBe comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

accessiBe
Ranking in Website Accessibility Testing Software
1st
Average Rating
9.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Selenium Grid in the Cloud
Ranking in Website Accessibility Testing Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

AA
CEO at Eventige
Fully ADA compliant, easy to implement, and helps increase revenues from purchases by disabled users
The ease of implementation has been an important reason as to why we've been using it and also the reason why our team has been comfortable recommending it. That's probably one of the most important things for non-technical people, how easy it is to understand, what a solution does, why it's important, and how it works. That process has been really simple compared to that of other platforms. To make an ADA compliant website, doing it manually is an option, but it is not one that we recommend given the solution. I think accessiBe has done a great job. They provide the paperwork that our clients need at the compliance level, which is very important. They support the solution. We've been able to get a hold of somebody and quickly when we needed anything. We have found the quality of the product and the quality of the process to also be valuable. The solution can be customized by the merchant. A popup widget can be used to control a variety of criteria, such as contrast, size of fonts, etc. You can pause animations for people who may be suffering from epilepsy, as any fast moving objects in their periphery can affect their mental as well physical health. These things can be dialed off completely, and any movement, videos, etc. can be terminated. There are toggles and options as you go through the menu based on the individual user's needs and preferences. They can customize it and then collapse the widget, and their entire experience will be to that preset until they clear their cookies or cache or reset the widget. The solution works automatically once it's installed, and that is a very quick process. Nothing additional is required. In general, any website that is navigable instantly is an experience that aligns with that user's needs and preferences. The solution has absolutely reduced the bounce rate on our website for people with disabilities. It's a night and day difference. If we need to quantify it, we're looking at over a 50% increase in terms of onsite stay versus bounce. accessiBe has increased the time disabled users spend on the site. If you're able to provide that experience, it's simply something that is a usable product. If you don't have a product installed and the website is something that people can simply not navigate, they will spend less time. The solution has helped increase revenues from purchases by disabled users by at least $50,000 to $100,000 in the course of several quarters in terms of additional business equity. For our merchants, we run e-commerce websites, email marketing, and any other messaging that goes with it. We look to install a product that can save time and money, increase user experience, communicate better, and load faster. We look at accessiBe as a solution that fits into that matrix. accessiBe has helped our organization get out of ADA compliance lawsuits. accessiBe provides paperwork, licensed to the merchant. When a lawsuit is brought forth, it starts the discovery and auditing process. When it hits the web development components of the agencies and the teams involved, accessiBe provides the paperwork that then we can provide to the legal department. They provide it to their to attorneys to properly combat the situation and to ensure that they are actually in compliance if accessiBe is already installed.
reviewer2808006 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior QA Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Cloud testing has boosted parallel runs and reduced time while still needing better reliability
The best features Selenium Grid in the Cloud offers include the hub and nodes setup, where the hub controls everything on a single machine as the main execution center, and nodes act as supportive machines for distributing load. Running test cases in parallel is a major feature. I also explored another tool called Zelenium, which has very stable features for running tests in parallel without any hassle by providing easy-to-run access. Selenium Grid in the Cloud has positively impacted my organization by significantly reducing execution time. Previously it was taking around 30 to 35 hours, but now it is reduced to two to three hours, which allows more time for decision-making. The ability to collect reports from individual machines and execution data easily is very good, making it a proud moment for us with respect to speed and efficiency improvements.

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Pros

"The most valuable feature is the simple installation method. It's a plug-and-play solution and that's what is most important for a lot of our clients. We were held back from a lot of accessibility stuff because a few years ago there was no type of AI solution that could go in and make you compliant with just a simple JavaScript that runs in the background. So the simplicity of use is the biggest thing, giving us effortless, automatic compliance."
"It's super easy to add new clients. I log into my platform, type in a couple of pieces of information, and then add the code and HTML code to their website so that tool is live. So, all in all, it's just a really quick and easy solution to use."
"Once implemented, our website was accessible to people with disabilities within minutes."
"accessiBe helped our organization get out of an ADA compliance lawsuit by providing documentation and a website audit that we were able to use as our defense."
"The ease of implementation has been an important reason as to why we've been using it and also the reason why our team has been comfortable recommending it."
"The AI-driven contextual understanding when it comes to adding certain elements at the backend of the website is valuable. For a website that doesn't have any web accessibility solution, when you install accessiBe, it goes in and adjusts the actual alt tags at the backend of the website to describe photos and things like that, which is really cool. The overlay is great, and I have seen only a few solutions that have similar functionality. I appreciate this more maybe because I am working at a marketing company."
"ADA compliance laws are actually really complicated; when you subscribe to accessiBe's service, they basically handle everything, which saves us a ton of time because to do it manually would cost a small fortune."
"It makes the user experience much easier. I have not had an experience with a disabled person utilizing the tool so I can't really speak to how they navigate the site, but I do know that acccessiBe has built this toolset so that it's very easy and it is compliant with most of the latest requests from the Disability Act. Therefore, I would assume that the usability is pretty cool."
"The best features that Selenium Grid in the Cloud offers are scalability and parallel execution, the user interface is very simple, Selenium Grid in the Cloud has positively impacted my organization by enabling fast test cycles, and the setup was very smooth, so we have obviously saved both people and money with Selenium Grid in the Cloud."
"Selenium Grid in the Cloud has positively impacted my organization by significantly reducing execution time; previously it was taking around 30 to 35 hours, but now it is reduced to two to three hours, which allows more time for decision-making."
"We have seen return on investment as Selenium Grid in the Cloud reduces execution time, and it saved 90% of time with Selenium Grid in the Cloud."
"Selenium Grid in the Cloud has positively impacted my organization by being more cost-friendly and providing better scaling and speed of execution than the legacy way of running things."
"After implementing Docker and Selenium Grid, I have seen a drastic reduction in execution time, which has helped improve productivity."
"Selenium Grid in the Cloud has positively impacted my organization by decreasing the time to test and deliver in production, significantly improving our DORA metrics."
"Selenium Grid in the Cloud has had a positive impact on my organization as we are able to run in an isolated area, helping us obtain healthier results and find common usage examples when we want to implement anything."
"We saved about an entire team's worth of salaries with Selenium Grid in the Cloud, which came to about 100k per year."
 

Cons

"In the next release, it would be great if the alt tag being updated on images just automatically updated the actual alt tag so that it would stay there."
"In terms of the changes to the backend of the website, based on what I understand, it makes the adjustments while a user is on the website. It would be good if there is a way for us to make some of the adjustments permanent."
"Their billing could make it easier for you to cancel their service, if you need to. Right now, there is no easy way to cancel their service. You need to contact their team. It would be better if they had a user interface which allowed you to cancel online without having to contact them."
"Sometimes, their customer service can be a little slow. Part of it is a time zone issue because they are in another country."
"In terms of the changes to the backend of the website, based on what I understand, it makes the adjustments while a user is on the website. It would be good there is a way for us to make some of the adjustments permanent. For instance, when a photo doesn't have an alt tag, while a user is on the page, accessiBe goes in and creates a description. If some type of report or email is sent to the website owner so that they can go in and make a permanent fix, it would be good. We can bring in a developer to make some of the changes permanent."
"The UI is nice but maybe there could be some more advanced layout customization within the actual widget, for adding a logo or something like that."
"The UI is nice but maybe there could be some more advanced layout customization within the actual widget, for adding a logo or something like that."
"In the next release, it would be great if the alt tag being updated on images just automatically updated the actual alt tag so that it would stay there. One of the things that the attorneys do is they run these robots and the robots go to the site and the aceessiBe is not on while these robots are there because accessiBe is made for humans. These robots create false negatives because it doesn't see accessiBe and then you have the potential to get sued because the robot says that a website is not accessible. It would be nice to have that be able to show up for those robots, and actually have something that says that we are protected."
"The main part is that sometimes the documentation is not clear, and we run into some problems."
"There are several areas where Selenium Grid in the Cloud can be improved, particularly regarding connectivity issues."
"Regarding the scalability of Selenium Grid in the Cloud, it is not particularly scalable when configured manually, as we need to set up several custom solutions to enhance scalability."
"We should have support from AWS or other cloud providers which can help us integrate Selenium Grid in the Cloud more easily."
"To improve Selenium Grid in the Cloud, I think it is important to integrate desktop recording because we need to use Selenium Grid in the Cloud with desktop applications in some cases."
"Being open-source, support lacks a lot, which definitely stops a lot of organizations from picking up a solution such as an open-source Selenium Grid."
"Selenium Grid in the Cloud is stable; however, I sometimes face challenges, but overall it is almost stable."
"I often see challenges in visibility, as sometimes I am unable to see the logs, which would be a point of improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing seems to be competitive enough at this time. Obviously, as new competitors come up, they may need to revisit their pricing structure. Perhaps, they could add more pages to their lower packages. That would be beneficial. The way that they are priced right now is based on the number of pages indexed on Google, and that can sometimes vary. Therefore, the pricing structure, if you are on a threshold, it can become a little hard to predict, which is never a good thing. Therefore, if they could increase the number of pages available within their lowest tiers, then that would be a benefit to consumers."
"At this point, $500 a year is pretty negligible for most of our clients, but there is a tier of clients where that becomes a little bit prohibitive."
"accessiBe works automatically to make our sites accessible. This has saved us around $300,000, by not having to pay programmers."
"It is priced well. I don't have any issues with it. I think it's affordable."
"accessiBe is very value based, and I think for what it is, it's probably under what I would expect it to be in terms of cost."
"Looking at the amount of time and money that web development takes on a continuous basis, its pricing makes sense. Its price is a no-brainer when you factor in the risk of not being compliant. It just makes sense when you factor in the added exposure and the largest share of the market that can now access your website."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Real Estate/Law Firm
15%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Retailer
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

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Small Business6
Large Enterprise1
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Small Business3
Large Enterprise8
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Selenium Grid in the Cloud?
There is no pricing for Selenium Grid in the Cloud, as it is open source.
What needs improvement with Selenium Grid in the Cloud?
Sometimes Selenium Grid in the Cloud requires manual intervention for very long-running test cases, which can get stuck and block the machine. We attempt to set up some customizations that facilita...
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Our main use case for Selenium Grid in the Cloud is running the automation test cases which we have, as running that locally is not a possibility because there are too many, and we want to run them...
 

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