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# Equalify Pro
# Equalify the web!

Open Source projects like Equalify need a revenue stream to keep their work alive.
**96.8% of homepages have WCAG conformance failures,** according to [WebAIM](https://webaim.org/projects/million/).

So, if we're going to make Web Accessibility better, we gotta make some dough!
The internet must become more accessible!

## Pro Features
## Support Equalify

A managed "service" version of Equalify includes:
- Hosted Service
- Chat Support
- View-based alerting
- Enhanced notifications
- Send alert by alert email
- View-based alerts
- Bundle alerts into weekly/monthly summaries.
- Add multiple accounts to a "team"
- "Team" Management
- Assign alerts as "tasks" for different team members
- Track completion of tasks
**Star the repo** to show your support.

## Pro Pricing
🌸 **Try our managed service**, [equalify.app](https://equalify.app/).

Pricing starts at $1,400/yr for 1 team member and 10,000 annual alerts.
🛠️ **Contribute a pull request** or [new issue](https://github.com/bbertucc/equalify/issues).

Add $99/yr for every new team member and $99/yr for every additional 1,000 annual alerts.
🎩 **[Donate](https://equalify.app/donate/)** to Equalify.

## Other Notes
## How will Equalify increase content accessibility?

Making money can cloud purpose.
Equalify aims to:
1. **Promote transparency** with a Open Source A11Y platform (✅ Done!).
2. **Reduce the cost** of multi-page website scans (ongoing).
3. **Improve automation** to simplify WCAG issue resolution (2023).

The purpose of Equalify, and my life, is to do ethical good.
We will tackle these goals by integrating with existing web services, making Equalify your WebOps hub.

Here's a basic comparison of Open Source vs. Proprietary projects from [An Open Source Survey](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265411256_Open_Source_Software_A_Survey_from_10000_Feet):
![equalify-integrations](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/46652/188710874-e53ccb85-f542-46f3-a680-837aaf02ae92.png)

![1B3C7CE8-691B-4403-9B81-73BC7E077D89](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/46652/169911414-6123539e-fb9f-49e4-b663-2c4cfd2172b0.jpeg)
## What does Equalify currently do?

It should go without saying that the values of Open Source projects are more ethical than the values of proprietary projects.
The app currently scans websites for WCAG errors.

If the Pro plan is indeed designed to sustain Equalify, we must focus on that goal (and temper our desires with [basic income nest eggs](https://bbertucc.notion.site/Basic-Income-Nest-Eggs-4b555b09d02d40389086c01ec84c1424)).
You can import pages from WordPress, XML sitemaps, and single URLs. Equalify then crawls all your pages for WCAG 2.1 errors using the popular [WAVE scan](https://wave.webaim.org/).

Onward and upward!
Every alert is reported on a filterable dashboard.

![equalify-alerts](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/46652/188710908-9bfb7da8-68ff-490c-8d6b-f9ce1f38d4c8.png)

## Download and Use
1. Download or clone [the latest release](https://github.com/bbertucc/equalify/releases).
2. Change `sample-config.php` to `config.php` and update info.
3. Run `composer install` to install Composer dependencies.
4. Upload/run on a Linux server (PHP 8 + MySQL required).
5. Report [issues](https://github.com/bbertucc/equalify/issues), questions, and patches.

**Not a technical user?** Use Equalify now at [equalify.app](https://equalify.app/).

## Special Thanks
A chaos wizard 🧙 and many brilliant brains help Equalify. Special shoutout to [Pantheon](https://pantheon.io/) and [Little Forest](https://littleforest.co.uk/feature/web-accessibility/) for providing funding for [bounties](https://github.com/bbertucc/equalify/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Abountied). Yi, Kate, Bill, Dash, Sylvia, Anne, Doug, Matt, Nathan, and John- You are the brains behind any great idea. Brad- You push me to code better. [@ebertucc](https://github.com/ebertucc) and [@jrchamp](https://github.com/jrchamp) are the project's first contributors - woot woot! [Guzzle](https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle) makes multiple concurrent scans possible. [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) makes Guzzle possible.

This project is Open Source under [AGPL](https://github.com/bbertucc/equalify/blob/mvp-1.2/LICENSE) to inspire new collaborations.

Together, **we can equalify the internet**.

-[@bbertucc](https://github.com/bbertucc)

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