A Craft CMS alternative where the proof writes itself
The short version
Craft CMS audits; Windrow refuses. Every page on a Windrow site passes a real accessibility check before it publishes, and no choice you can make produces unreadable text.
Why people go looking
Craft gives agencies power and clients a pleasant authoring experience. What it does not give either of them is proof: when the client's legal team asks whether the site conforms, someone bills hours to find out, and the answer expires with the next content edit.
What Windrow does differently
Windrow will not publish a page that fails a real WCAG 2.2 AA check. Not a warning you can dismiss: a gate. That covers alt text, labels, heading order, and contrast, and the things most tools never test, like whether the page reflows at 320 pixels and whether the focus indicator is visible on every background.
The rest of the stack keeps the same promise to your readers: share links with no third-party scripts, built-in newsletters with confirmed opt-in and no open tracking, and built-in analytics with no cookies and no fingerprinting. Do Not Track is honored for real.
And the standard equipment says the same thing: a skip link on every page, data tables that cannot publish without captions, audio that cannot publish without a transcript, plain-language summaries, your organization's own writing style suggested as authors type, and courses that never track a learner.
Where Craft CMS still wins
For complex, relational content models and agency workflows, Craft remains one of the best tools in the business. Windrow's content model is deliberately simpler.
Who should switch, and who should stay
Agencies with deep Craft expertise and clients who need bespoke content architecture should stay. Agencies whose clients need accessible sites with a conformance story attached should know Windrow checks every publish and generates the accessibility statement and conformance documentation from what was actually verified. Craft gives an agency power; Windrow gives an agency proof.
Moving your site
There is no one-click importer, and we will not pretend otherwise. What exists is a full content API built for AI agents: an assistant connected to Windrow can rebuild your pages, posts, and media in a working session, and every page it creates has to pass the same accessibility gate you do. Your old URLs can be forwarded with built-in redirects, so nothing you have shared goes dead.
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