WordPress accessibility plugins

There are many plugins available for WordPress that can help support accessibility. These tools work in many ways. Some are website features built in a way that’s specifically designed for accessibility, others help you create accessible content, and others help ensure that other plugins are more accessible.

Criteria for inclusion:

• The plugin must have a free level of service that does not require registration and provides enough functionality to be testable by the WordPress Accessibility Team
• The plugin must not be primarily dedicated to accessibility testing
• The plugin must not provide overlay functionality that cannot be fully disabled.
• The plugin must have an accessible admin interface
• The plugin must have been updated within the last year

Alert: Note that while many plugins in the WordPress plugin repository are overlays or widgets, none of those are listed here. The WordPress Accessibility team does not recommend the usage of accessibility overlays.

Accessible Features

Criteria: Plugins that add a commonly used feature, but with a specific focus on accessibility.

• Able Player for WordPress. Able Player is a media player that offers extensive support for accessible features such as Audio Description, speed adjustment, and interactive transcriptions.
• My Calendar - Accessible Event Manager. My Calendar is a full-featured event management plugin that includes support for event and location accessibility features and has a robustly accessible interface.

Editing Tools

Criteria: Plugins that add options in the editor that help improve the accessibility of your content.

• Screen Reader Text Format. Adds a block editor text control to set content as screen reader only.

Front-end Features

Criteria: Plugins that provide users with information about existing characteristics of your content.

• Accessibility New Window Warnings. Automatically adds visible warnings on links that open in new tabs or windows

Plugin or Theme Specific Patterns

Criteria: Plugins that improve the accessibility of a specific theme or plugin.

• Contact Form 7: Accessible defaults – generates accessible contact form defaults in Contact Form 7.

General Purpose

Criteria: Multi-purpose accessibility plugins not easily placed in another category, but not primarily focused on testing.

• WP Accessibility. Helps with a variety of common accessibility problems in WordPress themes. While most accessibility issues can’t be addressed without directly changing your theme, WP Accessibility adds a number of helpful accessibility features with a minimum amount of setup or expert knowledge.

Do you want to add your plugin to this list? Please contact the Documentation Team or open an issue on GitHub with your request.