How does the Accessibility Toolkit relate to WCAG?
The Accessibility Toolkit gives your visitors a set of controls for changing how your pages look and read. It is an assistive preference toolbar, not a compliance product: WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) conformance depends on your own site's markup and content, and no widget from any vendor can deliver it on its own.
What Is WCAG Compliance?
WCAG is a set of international standards that defines how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities. Meeting these standards is important for:
- Legal compliance — Many countries require websites to be accessible (ADA in the US, EAA in the EU).
- Better user experience — Accessible websites are easier to use for everyone.
- SEO benefits — Search engines favor accessible websites with proper semantic markup.
- Wider audience reach — Approximately 15% of the world's population has some form of disability.
How the App Helps
Visitor controls
The widget lets each visitor adjust your pages to suit them:
- Text-to-speech (Read Page) and reading focus
- Font size, line height and letter spacing
- Contrast, grayscale and inverted colours
- Highlighted links and headings
- Pause animations, hide images and mute sounds
- Keyboard navigation and cursor size
Accessibility profiles
Ready-made profiles group these controls for common needs, so a visitor can switch on several settings with one click.
What the widget does not do
The Accessibility Toolkit does not change your site's underlying HTML, and it does not audit your site or produce reports. To find issues that need real code changes, use a free checker such as the axe browser extension or Lighthouse, then fix them in your theme.
A genuine WCAG review covers your own markup and content, including image descriptions, video captions, form labels and heading structure. The widget helps visitors; it does not replace that work.