Lumi vs WAVE
How many issues is WAVE missing on your site?
WAVE by WebAIM is a popular free browser extension for visual accessibility testing. It's great for quick single-page checks - but it runs one engine, tests one page at a time, and has no monitoring, CI/CD, or dashboard.
What Lumi finds that WAVE misses
Five scanning engines vs one - catches issues WAVE misses
Multi-page crawling with sitemap discovery
CI/CD API with pass/fail gates for deployment pipelines
Score tracking and scan comparison over time
Keyboard interaction testing (focus traps, tab order, focus obscured)
WCAG 2.2 checks (Focus Not Obscured, Target Size, Accessible Auth)
Slack and webhook alerts for continuous monitoring
Where WAVE falls short
Single-page testing only - no site-wide crawling
No CI/CD integration or API for pipelines
No scan history, score tracking, or regression alerts
No keyboard interaction testing
No WCAG 2.2 specific checks
Single scanning engine