ablewidget

Matthew Chambers

AbleWidget adds a fully-featured WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility toolbar to every page of your WordPress site. Once activated, visitors can customise their browsing experience with features including:
<ul>
<li>Text size adjustment</li>
<li>High contrast, dark mode, and light mode</li>
<li>Dyslexia-friendly font</li>
<li>Enlarged cursor</li>
<li>Focus highlighting</li>
<li>Screen reader guidance</li>
</ul>
No code required. Install the plugin, tick “Enable widget” in Settings → AbleWidget, and the toolbar appears on your site immediately. Your licence is verified automatically by domain — there is no API key to copy and paste.
<h4>Subscription required</h4>
An active AbleWidget subscription is required for the widget to display. This plugin is free to install but will not function without a licence.
Plans are available at <a href="https://ablewidget.com/get-started.php" rel="nofollow ugc">ablewidget.com</a>:
<ul>
<li>Starter — £120/yr, 1 domain</li>
<li>Enterprise — £250/yr, up to 5 domains, custom colour & no branding</li>
<li>Agency — £699/yr, unlimited domains</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
When the widget is enabled, your site loads a JavaScript file from <code>ablewidget.com</code>. The request includes your site’s domain name, which is used to verify your licence. No personally identifiable information about your visitors is transmitted to AbleWidget servers. See the <a href="https://ablewidget.com/cookie-policy.php" rel="nofollow ugc">AbleWidget privacy policy</a> for full details.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin loads a JavaScript file from an external server when the widget is enabled:
Service: AbleWidget (https://ablewidget.com) 
When it is used: On every front-end page load when the widget is enabled in settings. 
What is transmitted: Your site’s domain name, used to verify your active subscription. No visitor PII is transmitted. 
Service terms: https://ablewidget.com 
Privacy policy: https://ablewidget.com/cookie-policy.php

AbleWidget — Accessibility Toolbar

Add the AbleWidget WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility toolbar to your WordPress site. Requires an active AbleWidget subscription.

Rakesh Mali

AccessKit adds a floating accessibility toolbar to your WordPress site that lets visitors adapt the page to their needs — bigger text, dyslexia-friendly fonts, high contrast, link highlighting, screen reading, and more.
Unlike popular paid alternatives that load scripts from external servers and charge per site, this plugin runs entirely on your own hosting. Nothing phones home, nothing tracks your users, no annual subscription.
<h4>13 built-in accessibility features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bigger Text / Smaller Text — five-step font scaling</li>
<li>Text Spacing — wider letter and word spacing</li>
<li>Line Height — increased line spacing for easier reading</li>
<li>Dyslexia Friendly — switches fonts to a dyslexia-friendly stack</li>
<li>ADHD Mode — focus reading strip that follows the cursor</li>
<li>Saturation — two levels of reduced colour intensity</li>
<li>Invert Colors — full page colour inversion</li>
<li>Highlight Links — yellow background on every link</li>
<li>Text To Speech — reads page text aloud (uses browser Web Speech API)</li>
<li>Cursor — enlarged cursor for low-vision users</li>
<li>Pause Animation — stops CSS animations and video</li>
<li>Hide Images — visually hides images while keeping layout</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why this plugin</h4>
<ul>
<li>Truly free, no upsells. Every feature is in the free version. No locked premium tier.</li>
<li>No third-party scripts. Everything runs from your own server. Audit-friendly.</li>
<li>Privacy-respecting. No tracking, no analytics, no cookies, no external requests.</li>
<li>Lightweight. Under 30 KB total. Loads asynchronously, won’t impact Core Web Vitals.</li>
<li>Brand-customisable. WordPress colour pickers for the launcher, panel, and reset button.</li>
<li>Compliance-friendly. Helps with WCAG 2.1 AA, ADA, EAA, Section 508, and GIGW user-adaptation requirements.</li>
<li>Translation-ready. Fully internationalised. POT file included.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How visitors use it</h4>
A floating launcher pill sits in the bottom-left (or bottom-right) of every page. Clicking it opens a panel with the 13 feature cards. Visitor preferences are saved in their browser’s localStorage so settings persist across pages and visits.
The panel can also be opened with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F2.
<h4>Customisation options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Appearance tab — brand colour, panel background, reset button colour, position, launcher title text</li>
<li>Features tab — enable or disable any of the 13 feature cards individually</li>
<li>Advanced tab — exclude on specific pages by ID or slug, append custom CSS overrides</li>
</ul>
<h4>What this plugin does NOT do</h4>
This is an accessibility adaptation widget, not an automated WCAG audit. It helps visitors customise how your site looks and behaves, but does not fix underlying semantic HTML issues. For full WCAG conformance you also need proper headings, alt text, ARIA labels, focus indicators, and keyboard navigation in your theme. Run a tool like axe DevTools or WAVE to identify those issues separately.

AccessKit – Accessibility Options Toolbar

A self-contained accessibility options toolbar with 13 features. No third-party scripts, no external API calls, no subscriptions.

AbleWidget — Accessibility Toolbar vs AccessKit – Accessibility Options Toolbar