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The navable Accessibility Widget helps your WordPress website becoming more accessible and improves the user experience for all visitors – no technical knowledge required.
Important: This plugin requires registration with navable and connects to the navable API service to function. All configuration options are available in the plugin, but the features that are actually activated on your website depend on your navable subscription plan.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin relies on the navable API service to provide accessibility features. The connection to this external service is required for the plugin to function.
Service Used: 
The navable Accessibility Widget service, provided by navable (https://navable.io)
When Data is Sent: 
* The widget script is loaded from https://api.navable.io/widget/v1/accessibility on every page where the plugin is activated 
* Configuration data (enabled features, color preferences) is sent when pages load 
* Your website’s domain is sent for authentication and verification
What Data is Sent: 
* Your website’s domain name (for subscription verification) 
* Page URL (for context-aware accessibility features) 
* Configuration settings (enabled features, colors, preferences) 
* User accessibility preferences selected through the widget interface 
* Browser and device information necessary for accessibility feature delivery
Service Provider Information: 
* Service Provider: navable 
* Website: https://navable.io 
* Terms of Service: https://navable.io/en/agb 
* Privacy Policy: https://navable.io/en/datenschutz
Registration Required: 
You must register your domain at https://navable.io/en/pricing to use this plugin. The widget will not function without proper domain registration and verification.
<h4>Plugin Features</h4>
This plugin allows you to configure all accessibility features and customization options through the WordPress admin panel. However, the features that actually work on your website depend on your navable subscription plan:
Free Plan 
* Automatic widget integration on all pages 
* Easy activation via WordPress Dashboard 
* No programming skills required 
* No credit card required for registration 
* Basic widget display and functionality
Basic Plan (Subscription Required) 
* All Free plan features 
* Automatic progressive accessibility improvements: 
 – Button label enhancement with ARIA labels 
 – Input label enhancement 
 – Automatic keyboard navigation 
 – Contrast enhancement for better readability 
 – Automatic language attribute 
 – ARIA Hidden for disabled elements 
 – Enhanced link ARIA labels
Pro Plan (Subscription Required) 
* All Basic plan features 
* Design customization: 
 – Custom theme color 
 – Custom background color 
 – Custom text color 
 – Full design control 
* No branding – navable branding removed 
* Access to audits, reports, and accessibility statements in the navable Dashboard
Note: You can configure any option in this WordPress plugin, but features beyond your subscription level will not be activated by the navable service on your website.
<h4>Why navable?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Simple – No programming skills required</li>
<li>Fast – Installation takes less than 5 minutes</li>
<li>Transparent – Configure everything in WordPress, activation based on your plan</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to Get Started</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate this plugin</li>
<li>Choose your subscription plan (Free, Basic, or Pro)</li>
<li>Sign up and register your domain at https://navable.io/en/pricing</li>
<li>Configure your preferences in WordPress Settings → navable Widget</li>
<li>The navable service will activate features based on your subscription</li>
</ol>
<h3>Support</h3>
Need help? We’re here for you!
<ul>
<li>Email: support@navable.io</li>
<li>Website: https://www.navable.io</li>
<li>Freemium (free): https://navable.io/en/pricing?product=freemium</li>
<li>Business (Basic/Pro): https://navable.io/en/pricing?product=business</li>
</ul>
<h3>About navable</h3>
navable is a SaaS platform for digital accessibility that helps businesses make their websites WCAG-compliant and accessible.
Website: https://www.navable.io

navable Accessibility Widget

Make your WordPress website more accessible with the navable Widget. Easy to install, configure, and activate.

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.

navable Accessibility Widget vs Accessibility New Window Warnings