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HandyPal Accessibility Widget

Help visitors read and navigate your site with customizable text, contrast, and reading tools.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.5.3
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 5.0 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update15 Oct 202617d ago
Active installationsNewAdoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records HandyPal Accessibility Widget version 1.5.3 as active, updated 17d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Make your website easier to use. HandyPal gives visitors control over text, contrast, reading, and navigation. Customize the widget in WordPress and keep your settings in sync with your HandyPal dashboard.

Start with the Free visitor widget. Paid plans add background fixes, optional AI assistance for labels, accessibility scans, and PDF reports. Use these tools to find your next improvements, alongside manual testing and fixes.

Help visitors read their way

Give visitors control over text size, spacing, contrast, reading guides, and browser-based text-to-speech. They choose the preferences that help them use your pages.

Keep your website’s identity

Choose your widget color, icon, size, and position. Your existing theme stays in place.

Customize once. Keep settings connected

Adjust widget appearance and visibility in Settings > HandyPal or in your HandyPal dashboard. Saved settings are shared between both dashboards.

Find your next improvement

Paid plans add background fixes, optional AI assistance for link, button, and form labels, accessibility scans, and PDF reports. AI assistance is in beta. Review the results on your pages; automated tools complement manual testing and fixes.

Accessibility Features Include

  • Adjust text size, line height, and letter spacing
  • High contrast modes (smart, high, higher, highest)
  • Reading guide and reading mask
  • Dyslexia-friendly font
  • Hide images option
  • Keyboard navigation enhancements
  • Focus indicators
  • Color blind filters (protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, achromatopsia)
  • Text-to-speech narration
  • Page zoom
  • Stop animations
  • And many more…

Quick Setup

  • Install and activate the plugin
  • Go to Settings > HandyPal
  • Enter your account token from handypal.net
  • The widget automatically appears on your site!

Requirements

  • A HandyPal account (Free plan available at handypal.net )
  • WordPress 5.0 or higher
  • PHP 7.4 or higher

External Services

This plugin connects to HandyPal when you save or verify your account token. net/api/wordpress/validate to authenticate and register the website. net and requests its configuration from HandyPal.

Widget usage events may be sent to HandyPal. A HandyPal account and an authorized plan are required.

net/terms

net/privacy

Privacy Policy

HandyPal collects the following data:

* Your website URL and name (for registration and widget configuration)

* Widget usage analytics (how often the widget is opened)

Visitor analytics are handled by the HandyPal service. See the Privacy Policy.

Support

  • Documentation: handypal.net/help
  • Support: handypal.net/contact
  • Dashboard: handypal.net/dashboard
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • a11y
  • accessibility
  • ada
  • disability
  • wcag
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.0 · PHP 7.4
Update activity15 Oct 202617d ago

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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex

Recent tracked changes

Version1.5.21.5.3
Version1.4.41.5.2
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