The alternatives
A site builder, WordPress or vibe coding it yourself, compared with a Rosette.
In this guide
Each of these has its place. For a site that has to work for disabled visitors, they are not equal. Here is how a Rosette compares with a drag and drop site builder such as Squarespace, Wix or Weebly, with Webflow, a site builder made for designers, with WordPress, and with vibe coding, which is asking an AI tool to make the whole site for you from a description.
| Rosette | Site builder | Webflow | WordPress | Vibe coded | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is it accessible to everyone? | Yes. Tested page by page, with a screen reader too. | Partly. You can fix your words and pictures, not their menus and pop-ups. | Only if the person who built it knew how. Most did not. | It depends on the design and add-ons. Most have problems somewhere. | Usually not. Nobody checks. |
| Changing it yourself | Simple boxes to type in. | Drag and drop, which is hard if you cannot see the screen or use a mouse. | Easy for words. Anything more needs a designer. | Possible, but busy and easy to break. | Ask the tool again and hope. |
| Knowing who visits | A plain English report every month, with no cookie pop-up. | Charts in a dashboard, if you go looking. | An extra you pay for, or Google Analytics with a cookie pop-up. | Usually Google Analytics, with a cookie pop-up. | Nothing. |
| On a phone | Fast. | Often slow. | Often heavy, with big pictures and animation. | Slower with every add-on. | Nobody has measured it. |
| Keeping it safe | I do it, with the help of Krystal.io. | They do it. | They do it. | You do it, or it gets hacked. | Nobody. |
| If you want to leave | You keep everything. Your words, pictures and web address. | On Wix you start again. Squarespace lets you take some of it. | You can take the pages, but they stop being easy to change. | Possible, with help. | Often stuck wherever the tool put it. |
| Cost a month | A fixed price to build, then £20 for hosting and care. | About £10 to £20, plus email. | About $25 for a site you can add news to, plus email. | About £20 to £50 for hosting, a paid design and add-ons, plus someone's time. | Cheap until something goes wrong. Then there is nobody to ring. |
If you are on Webflow now, The little book of Webflow accessibility (PDF, 8 MB), which I wrote with Ankita Gupta, shows how to fix the most common problems.
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