Title: Accessibility Helper
Author: willreekie80
Published: <strong>sentýabr 26, 2025</strong>
Last modified: sentýabr 26, 2025

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# Accessibility Helper

 By [willreekie80](https://profiles.wordpress.org/willreekie80/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/accessibility-helper-wr.zip)

 * [Details](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/accessibility-helper-wr/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/accessibility-helper-wr/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/accessibility-helper-wr/#installation)
 * [Development](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/accessibility-helper-wr/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/accessibility-helper-wr/)

## Description

Accessibility Helper is a WordPress plugin designed to make your website more accessible
for everyone. It provides an easy-to-use panel that lets visitors adjust font size,
switch to a dyslexia-friendly font, hear image descriptions read aloud, and apply
color schemes for common types of color blindness — all with customizable colors
and styles to match your site’s branding.

### Features

 * **Font Size Control:** Visitors can scale text up or down for better readability.
 * **Readable Font:** Switch to the Open Dyslexic font for easier reading.
 * **Image Alt Text Reader:** Hovering over images reads out their alt text.
 * **Color Filters:** Apply brightness, contrast, saturation and hue color filters,
   by using the sliders. Adjust to the users own preference.
 * **Color Blind Modes:** Apply contrast schemes for Protanopia, Deuteranopia, Tritanopia
   and Achromatopsia.
 * **Fully Customizable:** Adjust button colors, text colors, and panel position.
 * **Remembers Preferences:** Uses `localStorage` to remember user settings.
 * **Lightweight:** Loads only what’s needed, and works on any theme.
 * **Keyboard Shortut:** Pressing ALT, SHIFT and A will open the panel.

### How It Works

 * The plugin wraps your page content in a container that scales with the font size
   controls.
 * The panel is positioned in one of four corners based on your admin settings.
 * The dyslexic font is loaded via internal files.
 * For screen readers and visual aid, the alt text reader uses `speechSynthesis`
   to speak out image descriptions on hover.
 * Color blind schemes are applied using the different sliders that adapt your theme
   for color blindness.
 * There is a color contrast validation to ensure that there are no contrasting 
   colors whilst customising the plugin between the background color, button color
   and text color.

– First time load up, a notification pops up that mentions about using keyboard 
shortcode to access panel.

### Requirements

 * WordPress 5.0+ recommended
 * jQuery must be available (most themes already include it)

### Known Limitations

 * The image alt text reader relies on the browser’s `speechSynthesis` API — supported
   in most modern browsers but not all.
 * The plugin applies a page wrapper (`#accessibility-page-wrapper`) for scaling—
   very rare conflicts could occur if your theme or other plugins rely on the same
   ID.

### Developer Notes

 * Settings are stored in the WordPress options table.
 * User preferences (font scale, readable font, color blind mode, alt reader and
   color sliders) are saved in `localStorage` for persistence.
 * Styling is handled with a separate `style.css` file — feel free to customize 
   it further.

### Support

If you find a bug, have a feature request, or need help, feel free to reach out 
to [will_reekie@icloud.com].

### Credits

Open Dyslexic font by Abbie Gonzalez
 [jsDelivr](https://www.jsdelivr.com/)

### License

This plugin is released under the [GPLv3 or later](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html).

**Happy building a more inclusive web!**

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * The main accessibility panel
 * [[
 * Settings page with customisation options.
 * [[
 * Example of read images function.

## Installation

 1.  **Download the Plugin**
 2.   * Clone or download this repository, or copy the PHP, JS, and CSS files into 
        a new folder named `accessibility-helper`.
 3.  **Upload to WordPress**
 4.   * Upload the `accessibility-helper` folder to your WordPress site’s `wp-content/
        plugins/` directory.
 5.  **Activate**
 6.   * Go to your WordPress dashboard  **Plugins**  find **Accessibility Helper**  
        click **Activate**.
 7.  **Configure (Optional)**
 8.   * After activation, a new **Accessibility Helper** menu item will appear in the
        WordPress admin sidebar.
      * Use the settings page to customize colors and panel position.
      * You can also reset all settings to default if needed.
 9.  **Done!**
 10.  * The accessibility toggle icon will appear on your site’s front end. Visitors
        can open it to adjust settings as they wish.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Accessibility Helper” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ willreekie80 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/willreekie80/)

“Accessibility Helper” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/accessibility-helper-wr/contributors)
for their contributions.

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accessibility-helper-wr/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/accessibility-helper-wr/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/accessibility-helper-wr/)
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## Meta

 *  Version **2.1**
 *  Last updated **8 months ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 7.2 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Croatian](https://hr.wordpress.org/plugins/accessibility-helper-wr/) and [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/accessibility-helper-wr/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/accessibility-helper-wr)
 * Tags
 * [accessibility](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/accessibility/)[dyslexia](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dyslexia/)
   [font](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/font/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/accessibility-helper-wr/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ willreekie80 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/willreekie80/)

## Support

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