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AccessiBar adds a floating accessibility button to your website. When visitors click it, a compact toolbar appears with tools that let them adjust the site to their needs — increase font size, enable high contrast mode, switch to a dyslexia-friendly font, and more.
Why AccessiBar?
Many accessibility plugins have moved to a SaaS model — requiring subscriptions, limiting free features behind paywalls, making external API calls, and raising GDPR concerns. AccessiBar takes a different approach:
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<li>No paywalls. Every feature works without any subscription or premium tier.</li>
<li>Zero external requests. No CDNs, no third-party APIs, no Google Fonts. Everything runs locally from your server.</li>
<li>GDPR-compliant by design. No cookies are set. User preferences are stored in the browser’s localStorage — no data ever leaves the visitor’s device.</li>
<li>Zero dependencies. Works with any WordPress theme and page builder — no Elementor, no Divi, no specific theme required.</li>
<li>No server-side processing. No database tables, no server load, no SQL queries. Everything runs in the visitor’s browser.</li>
<li>Lightweight. Under 45KB total frontend footprint (CSS + JS + font). Your site stays fast.</li>
<li>Keyboard accessible. The toolbar itself is fully navigable with Tab, Enter, and Escape keys, with proper ARIA attributes and focus management.</li>
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Toolbar Features:
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<li>Font Size Controls — Increase, decrease, or reset the page font size.</li>
<li>High Contrast Mode — Dark background with light text and highlighted links for better readability.</li>
<li>Highlight Links — Makes all links visually distinct with outlines and underlines.</li>
<li>Readable Font — Switches to OpenDyslexic, a typeface designed for readers with dyslexia. The font file is bundled locally.</li>
<li>Stop Animations — Disables all CSS animations and transitions for visitors with motion sensitivities.</li>
<li>Large Cursor — Increases the mouse cursor size for easier tracking.</li>
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All preferences are remembered across page loads via localStorage.
Admin Settings:
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<li>Button position (any corner)</li>
<li>Button color</li>
<li>Button size (small, medium, large)</li>
<li>Optional button label text</li>
<li>Toggle individual toolbar features on/off</li>
<li>Hide on mobile devices option</li>
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AccessiBar — Accessibility Toolbar

A lightweight accessibility toolbar for WordPress. No subscriptions, no external requests, 100% GDPR-compliant.

Amber Hinds

Steve Jones

Road Warrior Creative

Equalize Digital

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Success Criterion 3.2 (Predictable) specifies that web pages should appear and operate in predictable ways. It is a common practice to set links that go to off-site locations to open in a new window or tab when clicked. Opening new windows or tabs automatically when a link is activated can be disorienting for people who have difficulty perceiving visual content, and for some people with cognitive disabilities, if they are not warned in advance.
This plugin helps websites become more accessible and better meet WCAG guidelines for predicability by providing advanced warning if a link is going to open a new window or tab before the user clicks or activates it. Providing a warning allows the user to decide it they want to leave the current window, and the warning will help them find their way back, if they do decide they would like to go to the new window. It will help them understand that the “back” button will not work and that they have to return to the last window they had open, in order to find their previous location.
There are no settings in this plugin. Simply activate it and it will automatically find all links that open in a new window and add the following three fixes to each link: 
1. A new window icon after the link text to denote that the link opens in a new window for sighted people. 
2. A tooltip, visible on hover, that says “opens a new window.” 
3. “Opens a new window” screen reader text that will be read out to blind or visually impaired people using screen readers immediately following the link anchor text.
Please note: new window warnings will be added to links and links that have been styled to look like buttons, including social media sharing and link icons. Depending upon what third party plugins are adding links to your site that open in new windows, some CSS styling may be required.
In addition to adding warnings for your users, this plugin integrates with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/accessibility-checker/" rel="ugc">Accessibility Checker plugin</a>; when Accessibility New Window Warnings is activated, it will automatically clear all “<a href="https://equalizedigital.com/accessibility-checker/link-opens-new-window-or-tab/" rel="nofollow ugc">Link Opens New Window or Tab</a>” warnings in Accessibility Checker scans of your website. Installing and activating this plugin is a great way to quickly remediate and remove a lot of open issues across you entire website.
The Accessibility New Window Warnings plugin is inspired by <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G201.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Techniques for WCAG 2.0 G201: Giving users advanced warning when opening a new window</a>.
<h3>Localization</h3>
The Accessibility New Window Warnings plugin is ready for localization. We have added a Spanish translation and are open to more translations!
If you would like to contribute a translation to this plugin, please <a href="https://equalizedigital.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a> or <a href="https://github.com/equalizedigital/accessibility-new-window-warnings" rel="nofollow ugc">fork the repository on GitHub</a>.

Accessibility New Window Warnings

Install, activate, DONE! I love how simply this plugin fixes a real problem! This goes right into my starter site and on every website I build from here on out!

Simple solution for an important problem


I installed this on my blog as I wanted to ensure there was a visible indication when links opened external pages to better comply with accessibility guidelines without having to go through hundreds of old posts. Did the job and correctly and easily and automaticaly added the desired indicators, markup and icons.


Does the job intended

Make links that open in a new window compliant with WCAG guidelines for accessibility by adding a warning for users.

AccessiBar — Accessibility Toolbar vs Accessibility New Window Warnings