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Last updated: 20/08/2026

Accessibility Widget

A floating visitor-assistance widget with visual and navigation controls. Helps visitors adjust the interface; it does not replace accessible themes, semantic markup, or a full WCAG audit.

Overview

Give visitors more control over how they experience your WordPress website with an easy-to-use accessibility toolbar.

Accessibility Widget adds a customizable floating toolbar with tools for text readability, contrast, color, focus, navigation, motion, and content visibility. Visitors can adjust the experience to their own needs, while Pro profiles provide convenient combinations of settings for different accessibility needs.

The widget is designed as an accessibility aid, not a replacement for accessible development practices, semantic HTML, alt text, keyboard navigation, or a professional WCAG accessibility audit.

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Who is this for?
  • Businesses that want to give visitors more control over their browsing experience
  • Agencies adding accessibility helpers to client websites
  • Content-heavy sites where visitors may benefit from reading and navigation tools
  • Website owners who want accessibility controls without a separate standalone plugin
  • Sites that need customizable accessibility tools for different visitor preferences

Features

Floating Accessibility Toolbar
Add an easy-to-find accessibility button anywhere along the left or right side of your website, with responsive support for mobile visitors.
20+ Accessibility Tools
Give visitors controls for text size, contrast, spacing, readable fonts, links, headings, focus, cursor size, reading guides, motion, images, and more.
Contrast & Visual Adjustments
Visitors can switch between high, light, and dark contrast, use grayscale or inverted colors, highlight links and titles, and make the cursor easier to see.
Reading & Text Controls
Improve readability with Bigger Text, Line Height, Letter Spacing, Word Spacing, Readable Font, Reading Guide, Reading Mask, and text alignment controls.
Navigation Helpers
Provide tools such as Skip to Content, Highlight Focus, Underline Links, and Tooltips to make navigating and understanding page content easier.
Accessibility Profiles
Apply groups of accessibility adjustments through ready-made profiles for motor impairment, visual impairment, color blindness, dyslexia, ADHD, cognitive needs, and seizure safety.
Color Vision Controls
Visitors can apply Protanopia, Deuteranopia, or Tritanopia adjustments, as well as lower or increase color saturation.
Read Aloud
Use browser text-to-speech capabilities to read page content aloud for visitors who prefer audio-assisted browsing.
Advanced Reading & Navigation
Unlock additional tools including Dyslexia Friendly font, Jump Links, Page Structure, Simplified View, Black Cursor, and Mute Sounds.
Fully Customizable Widget
Choose the widget position, icon, size, colors, spacing, panel layout, title, button label, footer note, and other display options to better match your website.
Control Where It Appears
Hide the widget on selected post types, specific posts or pages, or matching URL paths when it isn't appropriate for particular areas of the website.
Accessibility Statement
Add a link to your accessibility statement or display your statement directly inside the widget.

Give Visitors Control Over Their Experience

  • Accessibility needs aren't the same for every visitor.
  • One person may need larger text. Another may find increased spacing easier to read. Some visitors may prefer stronger contrast, highlighted links, reduced animation, or a reading guide that helps them follow content.
  • Accessibility Widget puts these options in one consistent toolbar without permanently changing the website for everyone else.
  • Visitors choose the adjustments that work for them, and when preference saving is enabled, those choices are stored locally in their browser rather than being written to your WordPress database.

Accessibility Profiles for Faster Adjustments

Pro users can offer predefined profiles that apply multiple relevant adjustments together.
Available profiles include options designed around Motor Impaired, Visually Impaired, Color Blind, Dyslexia Friendly, ADHD Friendly, Cognitive, and Seizure Safe experiences.
Visitors can still use individual accessibility controls, but profiles provide a faster starting point when several adjustments may be useful together.

Make Reading More Comfortable

  • The widget includes a broad collection of reading controls.
  • Visitors can increase text size, adjust line, letter, and word spacing, switch to a more readable font, use a reading guide or mask, and change text alignment.
  • Pro adds additional options including a Dyslexia Friendly font, Read Aloud, Simplified View, and Page Structure tools.
  • These controls allow visitors to adapt the presentation without requiring you to maintain separate versions of your content.

Customize It to Match Your Website

  • An accessibility toolbar should remain easy to identify without feeling disconnected from your site's design.
  • Choose from multiple button icons and sizes, set your accent color, control spacing from the screen edges, and position the button at the top, middle, or bottom on either side.
  • The accessibility panel itself can use a list or two-column grid layout. You can also customize its title, button label, footer note, and CSS class.
  • If you don't want a permanently floating button, disable automatic display and place the widget exactly where you want using:
  • [wpps_accessibility_widget]

Organize the Tools You Want to Offer

  • You don't have to show every available accessibility control.
  • From the admin settings, choose which tools appear and drag them into your preferred order. Keyboard-based ordering controls are available as well.
  • This lets you create a smaller focused toolbar or offer a larger accessibility toolkit depending on your website and audience.

Accessibility Scan for a Quick Review

  • The module also includes an on-demand single-page accessibility scan that provides an advisory WCAG-oriented score.
  • It can help identify areas worth reviewing, but it is intentionally presented as an advisory tool rather than a certification.
  • Automated scanning cannot determine whether a website is fully accessible or WCAG compliant, so manual testing and proper accessible development practices remain important.

Use Cases

  • Improve Content-Heavy Websites
    Give visitors reading guides, text sizing, spacing, contrast, and other controls when working through articles, documentation, or other long-form content.
  • Add Accessibility Tools to Client Sites
    Agencies can provide a consistent set of visitor accessibility controls across WordPress projects without installing another standalone accessibility toolbar.
  • Support Different Visual Preferences
    Offer contrast modes, grayscale, color-vision adjustments, saturation controls, link highlighting, and larger cursors for visitors who find them useful.
  • Provide Better Navigation Assistance
    Use Skip to Content, Highlight Focus, Jump Links, Page Structure, and other navigation tools to help visitors move through page content.

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