Releases: AirforceRP/Website-Accessibility-Widget
v1.0.0
Release Notes
Version 1.0.0 - Initial Release
Release Date: 11/19/2025 (November 11th, 2025)
Created by: AirforceRP
🎉 Overview
The Accessibility Widget is a comprehensive, lightweight, self-contained accessibility plugin that provides extensive customization options for websites. This initial release includes 20+ accessibility features designed to make websites more inclusive and accessible to all users.
✨ Key Features
Text & Display Customization
- Font Size Adjustment: 75%, 100%, 125%, 150%, or 200%
- Contrast Modes: Normal, High Contrast, or Dark Mode
- Line Height Control: Normal or Large spacing
- Letter Spacing: Normal or Wide spacing
- Font Family Options: Default, Sans Serif, Serif, or Monospace
Color & Vision Support
- Color Blindness Filters:
- Protanopia (Red-Blind)
- Deuteranopia (Green-Blind)
- Tritanopia (Blue-Blind)
- Achromatopsia (Total Color Blind)
- High Contrast Mode: Enhanced visibility for low vision users
Reading & Navigation Tools
- Text-to-Speech (TTS): Read selected text or entire page content
- Adjustable speech rate (0.5x to 2.0x)
- Adjustable pitch (0 to 2.0)
- Adjustable volume (0 to 1.0)
- Multiple voice support
- Reading Guide: Visual guide that follows your cursor
- Reading Mask: Hides text below reading position
- Text Highlight: Highlights text as you read
- Image Alt Text Display: Shows image descriptions
Accessibility Tools
- Enhanced Focus Indicator: High-contrast focus outlines for keyboard navigation
- Stop Animations: Disable all CSS animations and transitions
- Underline All Links: Make all links clearly visible
- Keyboard Navigation: Full keyboard support
- Persistent Settings: Remembers user preferences via localStorage
🚀 Installation
CDN Installation (Recommended)
<!-- Include Boxicons for icons (required) -->
<link href="https://unpkg.com/boxicons@2.1.4/css/boxicons.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<!-- Include the CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/website-accessibility-filter@latest/accessibility-plugin.css">
<!-- Include the config (optional - customize as needed) -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/website-accessibility-filter@latest/accessibility-config.js"></script>
<!-- Include the plugin (must be loaded last) -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/website-accessibility-filter@latest/accessibility-plugin.js"></script>Manual Installation
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Download the plugin files:
accessibility-plugin.jsaccessibility-plugin.cssaccessibility-config.js
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Include in your HTML:
<!-- Include Boxicons for icons (required) -->
<link href="https://unpkg.com/boxicons@2.1.4/css/boxicons.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<!-- Include the CSS -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/accessibility-plugin.css">
<!-- Include the config (optional) -->
<script src="path/to/accessibility-config.js"></script>
<!-- Include the plugin (must be loaded last) -->
<script src="path/to/accessibility-plugin.js"></script>📋 JavaScript API
The plugin exposes a global AccessibilityPlugin object for programmatic control:
// Toggle the panel
AccessibilityPlugin.toggle();
// Reset to default settings
AccessibilityPlugin.reset();
// Get current settings
const settings = AccessibilityPlugin.getSettings();
// Set font size programmatically
AccessibilityPlugin.setFontSize(150); // 75, 100, 125, 150, or 200
// Set contrast mode
AccessibilityPlugin.setContrast('high'); // 'normal', 'high', or 'dark'
// Set color blindness filter
AccessibilityPlugin.setColorBlindness('protanopia'); // 'none', 'protanopia', 'deuteranopia', 'tritanopia', 'achromatopsia'
// Text-to-speech
AccessibilityPlugin.speak('Hello, this is text-to-speech');
AccessibilityPlugin.stopSpeaking();⚙️ Configuration
Customize the plugin behavior by editing accessibility-config.js:
var AccessibilityConfig = {
position: 'bottom-right', // 'bottom-left' or 'bottom-right'
buttonText: 'Accessibility', // Text on the toggle button
showReset: true, // Show reset button (true/false)
fontSize: 100, // Default font size percentage
contrast: 'normal', // 'normal', 'high', or 'dark'
lineHeight: 'normal', // 'normal' or 'large'
letterSpacing: 'normal', // 'normal' or 'wide'
fontFamily: 'default', // 'default', 'sans-serif', 'serif', 'monospace'
colorBlindness: 'none', // 'none', 'protanopia', 'deuteranopia', 'tritanopia', 'achromatopsia'
focusIndicator: false, // Enable focus indicator (true/false)
readingGuide: false, // Enable reading guide (true/false)
stopAnimations: false, // Stop animations (true/false)
underlineLinks: false, // Underline all links (true/false)
showImageAlt: false, // Show image alt text (true/false)
ttsEnabled: false, // Enable text-to-speech (true/false)
ttsRate: 1.0, // TTS speech rate (0.5 to 2.0)
ttsPitch: 1.0, // TTS pitch (0 to 2.0)
ttsVolume: 1.0 // TTS volume (0 to 1.0)
};🌐 Browser Compatibility
- ✅ Chrome/Edge (latest)
- ✅ Firefox (latest)
- ✅ Safari (latest)
- ✅ Opera GX (latest)
- ✅ Mobile browsers (iOS Safari, Chrome Mobile)
📦 File Structure
accessibility-plugin/
├── accessibility-plugin.js # Main plugin logic
├── accessibility-plugin.css # Plugin styles
├── accessibility-config.js # Configuration file
├── example.html # HTML example
├── example-php.php # PHP example
└── README.md # Documentation
🔧 Technical Details
- No Dependencies: Pure JavaScript and CSS
- Lightweight: Minimal performance impact
- Self-Contained: No server-side configuration required
- Responsive: Works on desktop and mobile devices
- Accessible: Follows WCAG guidelines
- Persistent: Settings saved in localStorage
🐛 Known Issues
- Color blindness filters may have slight performance impact on very large pages
- TTS requires browser support for Web Speech API (Chrome, Edge, Safari)
- Some older browsers may not support all features
📝 Notes
- Settings are saved in browser localStorage
- The plugin works on any HTML/PHP page without server-side requirements
- All styles are scoped to avoid conflicts with existing page styles
- The widget is hidden when printing (via CSS media queries)
- Color blindness filters use SVG filters
🤝 Support
For issues or questions:
- GitHub: https://github.com/airforcerp/Website-Accessibility-Widget
- Email: accessibility@airforcerp.com
📄 License
Free to use and modify for any purpose.
🙏 Credits
Created by AirforceRP
Changelog
Version 1.0.0 (11/19/2025)
Initial Release
- ✅ 20+ accessibility features
- ✅ Text-to-speech support
- ✅ Color blindness filters
- ✅ Reading tools (guide, mask, highlight)
- ✅ Full keyboard navigation
- ✅ Persistent settings
- ✅ JavaScript API
- ✅ Responsive design
- ✅ Mobile support
- ✅ WordPress compatible
- ✅ CDN support via jsDelivr
- ✅ Comprehensive documentation
- ✅ Example files (HTML & PHP)
Thank you for using the Accessibility Widget!
Making the web accessible for everyone, one website at a time. 🌐♿
Love,
AirforceRP