DubBot is a for-profit company based in Decatur, Georgia, USA. For web accessibility, it offers an AI bot-based approach to finding site snags. The dancing robot was developed by Blaine Herman, after hearing about the challenges webmasters face in making their sites comply with confusing ADA regulations. DubBot was born as Software as a Service in order to address web accessibility and increase compliance.
Service features
DubBot is an automated bot that is added to the site via a line of code, as do certain contenders. This lets DubBot, which operates secretly as a Software as a Service, to crawl the site and find potential web accessibility issues.
DubBot's web accessibility feature can help make your site accessible to all users (Image credit: DubBot) The first feature is to perform web accessibility checks. DubBot does everything it can to research the place for WCAG twenty-one issues so that it can be updated to current standards. This ensures that the place is attainable in an unbeatable way for each and every visitor. However, don't lie to certain other web accessibility standards that contenders offer compliance with, such as AODA, Section XNUMX, EAA/EN XNUMX, and ACA. Absolutely no one likes a broken link. With the Internet such a vibrant site, it's a matter of time before links drop, sites go down, or undergo redesigns. Think of this as "link rot" as links die over time, and it's a pain to go through and fix them all manually. Thank goodness, WebBot has a solution for this with its broken link check feature, which fixes this issue before visitors list your site as failed for maintenance.
You can set up customizable checks to make sure your site follows regulatory policy guidelines (Image credit: DubBot) Another feature provided by DubBot is the Web Governance Check. It's a customizable feature that can target an organization's policies and "enforce legal, style, branding, and regulatory requirements." Non-compliant content can be quickly flagged to get your attention, such as contact information, including names, emails, and even Twitter IDs so that your site visitors try to get in touch with actual people. Absolutely no one wants to attempt to read a place that has misspellings and poor readability. DubBot also steps up this rather difficult area with built-in spell checking and readability. Ratings are produced on the content of the site in order to keep the content professional and refined. It uses a universal spell checker and accepts a multilingual dictionary. There is also the possibility of customization with a list of keywords to avoid names of contenders or sentences that may be offensive. The final feature is search engine optimization (Search Engine Optimization) checks, which help incorporate search engine optimization best practices to maximize visitors. DubBot gives a list of "Quick Wins", which, after analysis, is a prioritized list of websites that will be favored at the limit of a given job.
User Reviews
One unique thing about DubBot is that there are many user reviews. In addition to this, it is comforting to see that the reviews are positive, each and every one between 4 and 5 stars. In addition to this, it is good to see that the user service and support areas of this web accessibility service are given high marks, including immediate corrections and even the adapted attention of the management to answer, adding auxiliary peculiarities to the service. In addition to this, users praise the issue severity dashboard and rating for being able to track issues and have the clarity that they can prioritize their attention to fix those issues.
Award
The cost of DubBot is left to the imagination, as it cannot be found anywhere on their site. In fact, we couldn't find it anywhere and have no idea if there are tiers or what the cost structure is. Contacting the company is necessary to get a free estimate that, on the one hand, must be precisely oriented to your needs, but it can also take a long time when a site just wants to compare and have an idea of the cost before of wasting time on a service that is not accessible. . There is also no free trial offer. At least there's a free demo offer, which involves submitting your site online with contact credentials, and then DubBot displays a list of potential issues like "Bad spelling, broken links, accessibility issues, and much more," so you can get an idea of the realization of this service.
You can contact DubBot by phone or email, but you can also find answers to common questions in the company's knowledge base (Image credit: DubBot)
Support
Support options for DubBot are also slim. The essential options are covered, with a direct e-mail, such as a direct number. However, hours of support availability are not detailed and this is not a toll-free number. As a general rule, there is not enough support for the more advanced options, as there is no chat, discussion forum, online videos or support portal. We also did not find e-books, technical reports or online tutorials. There was a Twitter thread to continue.
Final revision
DubBot achieves the most web accessibility with features like direct phone support, multilingual dictionary support, and compliance with WCAG twenty-one standards. However, it falls short in certain essential areas, such as a lack of advanced support options, totally opaque costs, lack of compliance with other web accessibility standards, and an AI-only approach. In our analysis, although DubBot has web accessibility in its toolbox, it lacks focus with quirks that go beyond web accessibility, such as search engine optimization and broken links. For users who want a more extensive feature set, DubBot may be a good option, but for those who want the best in web accessibility, there are better options.