Equalify has officially transitioned to a project of the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Technology Solutions department! This marks a new chapter for Equalify, but we remain focused on our goal: bringing top-in-class acessibility scanning and reporting tools to the widest possible audience.
We built Equalify as a multi-tenant, SaaS platform, but after 3 years and tens of thousands of scans, we believe users want something different - something simple, robust, and easy-to-use, and that can be deployed by users themselves, without a dedicated DevOps team. That means we'll be moving in a new direction for Equalify, with the goal of a streamlined application, with straightforward deployment. We aim to make Equalify as easy to install as any popular open source project. Here's what this means:
- Ease of Deployment Our priority will be to make it as simple and painless as possible for users to spin up their own instances of Equalify
- Unified Codebase A consolidated codebase, to make it simpler for developers to contribute and act as a single entry point for end users and developers
- Customization Prioritize extensibility, and make it as straightforward as possible for users to add their own scans, modify the user interface, etc
- Better Documentation Simplify adoption by unifying and expanding existing documentation
- Always Open Source Continued Open Source development under the AGPL
- Beta (Q1 2026)
- Deployment in 30 minutes or less
- Handles 100 pages/minute without breaking a sweat
- Costs less than $1000/month for typical usage
- No critical bugs
- Documentation that doesn't suck
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All the best, Digital Accessibility Engineering UIC Technology Solutions