AxesWeb

AxesWeb Accessibility Solution adds an accessibility toolbar to your WordPress site to help users customize their reading experience, in line with WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 guidelines. The widget is lightweight, configurable from the settings page, and designed to be theme-agnostic.
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to the AxesWeb CDN to load the accessibility widget JavaScript. It is required to render the accessibility UI and features in the front‑end.
What data is sent and when: 
– When the widget is loaded, the browser requests the script file from the CDN. No personal data is sent by the plugin to AxesWeb. The plugin does not add cookies or tracking. 
– When the optional accessibility feedback form is enabled, submissions are sent to your WordPress site via admin-ajax.php using a nonce-protected action. Emails are dispatched by your site to the recipient you configure. No data is sent to AxesWeb for this feature.
Service provider: AxesWeb 
– Script URL pattern: <code>https://cdn.axesweb.com/widget/{version}/accessibility-widget.js</code> 
– Terms of Service: https://www.axesweb.com/termini-di-servizio/ 
– Privacy Policy: https://www.axesweb.com/privacy-policy/
Additionally, when you verify your API key from the plugin settings, the plugin makes a request to the AxesWeb verification API to validate your license.
What data is sent and when: 
– On verification: your site URL and the API key you enter are sent in a JSON request to the verification endpoint to confirm validity and activate features. 
– No periodic personal data transfers occur. A lightweight validity recheck may occur based on stored TTL to keep the activation status up to date.
Service provider: AxesWeb 
– Verification endpoint: https://www.axesweb.com/wp-json/axesweb/v1/key/verify 
– Terms of Service: https://www.axesweb.com/termini-di-servizio/ 
– Privacy Policy: https://www.axesweb.com/privacy-policy/
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is released under the GPL v2 or later. 
See <code>https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html</code>.

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<h4>♿ Core features</h4>
✔ Accessibility scanner — checks 12 WCAG 2.1 AA rules on every page of your site 
✔ Score & grade — A–F accessibility score with POUR (Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust) breakdown 
✔ Issue detail panel — shows the offending HTML, WCAG criterion, and affected element count 
✔ Issues by page — stacked bar chart showing critical/warning/notice counts per page 
✔ Visitor accessibility toolbar — minimal floating widget with 10 user-controlled accessibility features 
✔ AI auto-fix (requires API key) — generates corrected HTML for fixable issues 
✔ AI explanations (requires API key) — plain-English summaries for non-technical site owners
<h4>12 WCAG rules checked</h4>
<ol>
<li>Images missing alt text (WCAG 1.1.1)</li>
<li>Colour contrast heuristic (WCAG 1.4.3)</li>
<li>Data tables missing headers (WCAG 1.3.1)</li>
<li>Missing landmark elements (WCAG 1.3.6)</li>
<li>Interactive elements not keyboard accessible (WCAG 2.1.1)</li>
<li>CSS animations without reduced-motion guard (WCAG 2.3.3)</li>
<li>Links with non-descriptive text (WCAG 2.4.4)</li>
<li>Skipped or empty heading levels (WCAG 2.4.6)</li>
<li>Focus indicator removed via CSS (WCAG 2.4.7)</li>
<li>HTML lang attribute missing (WCAG 3.1.1)</li>
<li>Form inputs missing label association (WCAG 4.1.2)</li>
<li>Invalid ARIA role attributes (WCAG 4.1.2)</li>
</ol>
<h4>Visitor accessibility widget features</h4>
✔ Font size 
✔ High contrast 
✔ Dyslexia font 
✔ Grayscale 
✔ Reading guide 
✔ Pause animations 
✔ Line height 
✔ Large cursor 
✔ Highlight links 
✔ Screen mask
<h4>AI providers supported</h4>
<ul>
<li>Anthropic Claude (claude-haiku-4-5, claude-sonnet-4)</li>
<li>OpenAI (gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4o)</li>
<li>Google Gemini (gemini-1.5-flash, gemini-1.5-pro)</li>
<li>Ollama (local, no key needed — llama3.2, mistral, phi3)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
AccessMate makes no external requests unless you configure an AI provider and trigger an AI action. When an AI action is triggered, your WordPress server makes a direct request to your chosen provider using your key. No data passes through AccessMate servers. The API key is encrypted at rest using AES-256-CBC with your WordPress auth salt.
<h3>Third Party Libraries</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core" rel="nofollow ugc">axe-core</a> by Deque Systems — Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)</li>
<li><a href="https://fontsource.org/fonts/opendyslexic" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenDyslexic font via Fontsource</a> — Bitstream Vera Fonts License — loaded on demand from jsDelivr CDN only when the dyslexia font feature is enabled by the visitor</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin can connect to the following external services. No external requests are made unless you explicitly configure and trigger the relevant feature.
<h4>AI providers (optional)</h4>
When you add an API key and click an AI action (auto-fix suggestion, alt-text generation, or accessibility report summary), your WordPress server sends a direct HTTPS request to your chosen AI provider. The request contains the page HTML snippet and accessibility issue context being analysed. No data passes through AccessMate servers. These requests are only sent when you have entered an API key in Settings and manually trigger an AI action.
Anthropic — <code>https://api.anthropic.com/</code> 
Used for: AI fix suggestions, alt-text generation, accessibility report summaries. 
Data sent: page HTML snippet, accessibility issue context, and your Anthropic API key (in the request header). 
<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
OpenAI — <code>https://api.openai.com/</code> 
Used for: AI fix suggestions, alt-text generation, accessibility report summaries. 
Data sent: page HTML snippet, accessibility issue context, and your OpenAI API key (in the request header). 
<a href="https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
Google Gemini — <code>https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/</code> 
Used for: AI fix suggestions, alt-text generation, accessibility report summaries. 
Data sent: page HTML snippet, accessibility issue context, and your Gemini API key (as a URL parameter). 
<a href="https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> | <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
Ollama — <code>http://localhost:11434/</code> (local only) 
Ollama runs entirely on the user’s own machine or local network. No data is sent to any external server.
<h4>jsDelivr CDN (visitor-facing, on demand)</h4>
When a site visitor enables the Dyslexia Font feature in the accessibility toolbar, their browser loads the OpenDyslexic font stylesheet from jsDelivr. This is a standard browser-initiated HTTP request that includes the visitor’s IP address and User-Agent string. The font is cached locally after the first load; no further requests are made on subsequent pages. This request is triggered only by the visitor explicitly toggling the dyslexia font feature — it is never loaded automatically.
jsDelivr — <code>https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/</code> 
<a href="https://www.jsdelivr.com/privacy-policy-jsdelivr-net" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>

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