Accessibility widget Joomla

Version 2.0 of the DockAccess Accessibility Widget extension works with Joomla 5.4 and newer, including 6.x, on PHP 8.1. Once connected to your DockAccess account, it shows in the administrator panel whether the widget works, which plan you have and how many widget views were used this month. Sites on Joomla 3 and 4 use version 1.4.0, where you paste the token in the settings of the AssistForWCAG plugin.

What the widget offers

Visitors open the widget with its button and adjust the page to their needs:

• contrast, colours and saturation,
• text size, letter spacing and line height,
• a font for people with dyslexia and reading aloud,
• turning animations off and a larger cursor,
• ready-made profiles, among others for people who are blind or have low vision, colour blindness, dyslexia, epilepsy or ADHD.

Simple setup

You install the package in System → Install → Extensions; it turns on the plugin that adds the widget. You connect the site in Components → DockAccess Accessibility Widget with the site token and the e-mail address and password of your DockAccess account.

Privacy

The widget collects no personal data of visitors. Only the IP address and the user agent are recorded to count views. Your DockAccess password is used only once, to connect; the extension does not store it.

For your visitors

The widget appears on every page of the site with the extension's plugin on. Visitors open it with its button or with Ctrl + U, and the widget remembers their choices on the next visit.

Settings in your account

In your DockAccess account, pick the site in My sites and open its Accessibility widget tab. There you set the colours, the position and size of the button (also separately for narrow screens), the maximum zoom, the features and profiles on offer, your own selectors and the accessibility statement. The preview shows a change before you save it, and the extension does not have to be installed again.

Status

The Components → DockAccess Accessibility Widget screen shows whether the widget works, which plan you have and how many views were used this month. It shows the widget as working after the first visit to the site.

Domains and the limit

The widget works on the domains of the site in your account, so add every address the website runs under. The free plan covers 5,000 widget views a month for all the sites of the account. Once they are used up, the widget does not show until the 1st of the next month or until a plan with a higher limit is active.