AccessibleWP – Accessibility Toolbar

These types of toolbars are a gimmick and companies like Userway make tons of money taking advantage of website owners who do not understand accessibility. If you want your site to be accessible, then follow the simple guidelines set forth by the WCAG. People with disabilities prefer to use their own tools and assistive technologies, they don’t want to figure out another ridiculous toolbar. But, for fun, let’s look at the so-called features of this toolbar…

• Keyboard Navigation – The plugin might help a little, but not 100%. Instead, build your website properly (don’t set CSS focus to “none or 0” and use links and buttons appropriately and test your site with your keyboard (not a mouse).
• Disable Animation – Users who prefer no animation will have already set this preference at an OS level and will likely have their own browser plugin to prevent animations.
• Dark Contrast – Edge and Chrome browsers allow users to force “dark mode”, also this can be set at the OS level.
• Change Font Size – Users who want this can set it at the OS level or in their browser settings. Website owners, use REM/EM/percentages for your font sizes (don’t us PX).
• Readable Font – Users who prefer this will have already set it in their browser settings and/or use an extension.

For a free plug-in, this is pretty good.

I liked that I could turn on and off certain aspects in the control panel. I did enjoy that each option had a few settings beyond on or off, but I could not figure out some of the things like “Hard CSS.” I would have loved to understand what that meant? Do I upload another stylesheet? Where?

I liked being able to re-name the toolbar. I like calling it “User Preferences” so it it less stigmatizing. I would have liked to change the person icon into a font-awesome icon or png/svg that I could upload. I kind of think that person icon is a bit stigmatizing myself. A sliders icon or paint pallet icon would be more inviting to see as a “customizer” for users who don’t identify as disabled.

Turning off the Contrast option seemed to break the plug-in. I did not really want to use that option myself, I was thinking of doing a dark mode switch with more targeted CSS, but seeing as I can’t turn off this option in this plug-in, I guess I will have to roll with it.

I do kind of wish the Increase font / decrease font had a + /-, and I could increase/decrease beyond just one font size iteration.

I do kind of wish the user could change the “readable” font from a list, like Times new Roman, Helvetica, etc. I imagine some people have trouble with serifs, and some may need to see a serif. Letting the user choose seems best.

I don’t think this plug-in should be listed as such an important item in the control panel UI. It even goes above WP Posts. I’d prefer to see this in the WP Settings, or at least underneath the WP Settings in options priorities. This is more like something you set and forget and does not need to be seen above the WP posts fly-out.

I also enjoyed the name of the plug-in, it is a toolbar. Some plug-ins with similar features make it sound like the magic bullet to achieving WCAG 2.1 AA. This is more of a supplement,

Thank you.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by ellice909.
• This topic was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by ellice909. Reason: typo fixed

Attention, ce plugin n’est plus mis à jour depuis plus d’un an, et semble ne plus fonctionner correctement depuis la MAJ vers WP 5.8 ! Les options ne fonctionnent plus du tout !

Please note, this plugin has not been updated for over a year, and seems to no longer work correctly from the update to WP 5.8 ! The options no longer work at all !

Bravo et surtout merci pour avoir pensé à ceux dont on parle peu ! L’ extension est magnifique de simplicité, d’efficacité et de fonctionnalité. Bien dommage par contre que cette extension ne soit pas mieux référencée. Encore merci pour cette action en faveur du web pour tous.
JM

Well done and above all thank you for having thought of those about which we speak little! The extension is magnificent in its simplicity, efficiency and functionality. A pity on the other hand that this extension is not better referenced. Thank you again for this action in favor of the web for all. (translation by google…)

This is a great plugin and it works well with WP 5.1. Thank you! We wanted to make our site more accessible and you have allowed us to do that.

• This topic was modified 7 years ago by SandyMe.