Oorly Accessibility Widget

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People read the web in very different ways. Someone with low vision zooms in, someone with dyslexia struggles with tightly set text, someone with a migraine needs the motion to stop. Oorly Accessibility Widget puts a small button on every page of your WordPress site that opens a panel of 17 controls. Each visitor chooses what helps them, and the page changes for that visitor only.

Setup takes about two minutes. Create a free Oorly account, paste your site code under Settings > Oorly, and the widget appears. You don’t need to edit your theme or header.php, and there is no build step.

Free dashboard for every account

Every Oorly account, including the free plan, comes with the dashboard at dash.oorly.com:

• Daily visitors: see how many people visit your site each day.
• Widget usage: see how often the widget is opened and which controls your visitors rely on most.
• Broken links: find links on your site that lead nowhere, so you can fix them before visitors run into them.
• Accessibility errors: get every WCAG issue on your site, with the exact element and how to fix it.

You add the widget for your visitors and get an overview of your site’s health in the same account.

Your path to WCAG, ADA and EAA compliance

Laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the US and the European Accessibility Act (EAA) in the EU expect websites to be usable by people with disabilities, and both point to WCAG as the technical standard. Oorly gives you the two things you need to get there:

• The widget helps visitors with different needs use your site today, from larger text to read aloud.
• The free WCAG report checks your pages against WCAG 2.1 AA and WCAG 2.2 and lists every issue with the exact element and how to fix it, so you can fix them in your site’s code.

Compliance lives in your site’s HTML, so no widget can deliver it alone. Fix what the report finds and keep it scanning to move your site toward WCAG conformance, the standard the ADA and EAA refer to.

Important: Oorly does not guarantee legal compliance. Neither the widget nor the report can promise that your site fully meets WCAG, the ADA, the EAA or any other law. Automated scans catch many issues but not all of them, and some requirements can only be checked by a person. For full assurance, combine Oorly with a manual accessibility audit and, where needed, legal advice.

Why it matters

• Around one in six people worldwide live with a significant disability, and many more have temporary or age-related needs such as tired eyes, a broken arm or a small screen in bright sunlight.
• Text that is easier to read keeps people on the page longer, so they read further and are more likely to finish a form or a purchase.
• Many of the issues the report finds, such as missing alt text, unclear link text and skipped headings, also affect how search engines understand your pages.

The 17 visitor controls

Nothing is switched on by default. Visitors turn on only what they need, and their choices are remembered in their own browser.

Reading

• Text size: scale the text up step by step while the layout holds together.
• Text spacing: put more room between letters and words.
• Line height: open up the space between lines of a paragraph.
• Text align: turn justified text into ragged-right text, which is easier to track.
• Dyslexia font: swap to a typeface whose letters are harder to confuse.
• Read aloud: hear the page sentence by sentence, at the visitor’s own pace.

Seeing

• Contrast: choose high contrast, inverted colours or a low-light mode.
• Saturation: boost, soften or remove colour completely.
• Page zoom: enlarge everything, including images and buttons.
• Big cursor: a larger pointer that is easier to spot.
• Highlight links: underline and outline every link on the page.
• Highlight headings: outline headings so the structure of the page stands out.

Focusing

• Reading guide: a ruler that follows the pointer down the page.
• Focus highlight: dim the rest of the page around the section being read.
• Stop animations: pause motion, autoplay and parallax effects.
• Hide images: take decorative images away and keep the text.
• Mute sounds: silence audio that starts on its own.

The Oorly report (no plugin needed)

The report is part of the free dashboard. It runs on Oorly’s side, so it works whether or not this plugin is installed.

• Scheduled and on-demand scans against WCAG 2.1 AA or WCAG 2.2.
• The rule and its WCAG reference for every finding, with an impact level of serious, moderate or minor.
• The exact CSS selector and markup the crawler saw, so developers find the problem straight away.
• Fix guidance explaining why each issue matters and how to fix it.
• History across scans, with regressions reopened automatically and a PDF export for clients or audits.

Why site owners choose this plugin

• Lightweight: one readable PHP file. Nothing is minified or bundled, and the plugin adds no database tables, cron jobs or REST routes.
• Plays by WordPress rules: the script is loaded with wp_enqueue_script() and the defer strategy, so it never blocks rendering and can be dequeued by its oorly-widget handle.
• Safe input: the site code is restricted to [A-Za-z0-9_-] before it is saved, and only users with manage_options can change it.
• Easy to switch off: clear the code and the script is gone from every page. Deleting the plugin removes its one stored option.
• Multisite friendly: each site keeps its own code and can be switched on or off independently.
• Translatable: every string can be translated, and translations are delivered through translate.wordpress.org.

External services

This plugin relies on Oorly, a third-party service operated by Drupart, to provide the widget.

Once you save a site code, the visitor’s browser loads https://widget.oorly.com/widget.js on every front-end page, with that code as the c query parameter. Like any file request, this tells Oorly the visitor’s IP address, user agent and the page they are on. Once running, the widget sends anonymous usage measurements to Oorly (page views and which controls are used) to produce the visitor and usage statistics shown in your dashboard. The plugin does not host or modify the script and makes no server-side calls to Oorly. What the widget does once it runs is handled on Oorly’s side and tied to your site code. Clearing the site code stops the script from loading.

• Website: https://oorly.com
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Support

Questions about the plugin belong in this plugin’s support forum. Questions about your Oorly account, your site code or the report go to https://oorly.com.