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WCAG Admin Accessibility Tools provides a dual approach to accessibility improvements in WordPress: practical diagnostic tools for admins and editors, and optional front-end visual enhancements for users.
This plugin is primarily designed to complement the WAVE browser extension by WebAIM by offering tools that WAVE doesn’t cover or that we wanted to improve on. For a more complete accessibility review, using both is recommended.
Features: 
– Accessibility Admin Bar Tools: Adds a front-end admin bar menu with auto-check and toggleable visual checks for accessibility issues: 
 – Missing Alt Text 
 – Poor Color Contrast (AA/AAA) 
 – Vague Link Text (e.g. “click here”) 
 – Improper Heading Hierarchy (e.g. skipping from H2 to H4) 
 – Links Missing Underlines (excluding buttons and navs) 
– Skip to Content Link: Inserts a visually hidden “Skip to main content” link at the top of each page for improved keyboard navigation. 
– Alt Text Column & Inline Editing: Adds an “Alt Text” column to the Media Library list view, including an edit option for quickly updating missing or incorrect image alt text. 
– Additional Media Columns: Adds columns for image dimensions, MIME type (e.g. <code>image/png</code>, <code>application/zip</code>), and file size. 
– Frontend User Assistant: Adds an accessibility toolbox that includes tools such as Text Resizer, Readable Font, and Modes (default, dark, and greyscale), optionally placed as: 
 – A floating toggle 
 – A navigation menu item 
 – A shortcode (<code>[wcagaat_assistant]</code>) 
– Logo Swap in Dark Mode: Optionally swap logos when dark mode is enabled. 
– Auto-Detect Device Dark Mode: If the user’s device is set to dark mode, a prompt will ask if they would like to enable dark mode for this site. 
– Custom Visibility Rules: Choose who can see the frontend mode switcher — everyone, logged-in users, or just admins. 
– Custom Vague Phrases: Configure your own list of vague link texts to scan for (e.g. “read more, learn more, click here”).
WCAG Admin Accessibility Tools gives you clear, actionable insights directly in the WordPress UI to improve accessibility compliance faster.

WCAG Admin Accessibility Tools

Accessibility diagnostics and tools for alt text, contrast, vague links, and more.

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.

WCAG Admin Accessibility Tools vs AccessKit – Accessibility Options Toolbar