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Accessibility Assistant – Readabler

Readabler Accessibility Assistant adds AI-powered accessibility features directly to your WordPress site for a better user experience.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version1.0.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 6.7 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update2 Sept 20262mo ago
Active installations300Adoption 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 Accessibility Assistant – Readabler version 1.0.1 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

The Readabler Accessibility Assistant WordPress plugin is a robust tool designed to enhance website accessibility through AI-driven features. 1, ADA, Section 508, EAA, and more. As part of the broader Readabler platform, it empowers website owners to create more inclusive digital experiences—particularly for users with visual impairments, cognitive challenges, reading difficulties, and a variety of other accessibility needs.

Reviewed and approved by the Readabler team, this plugin is a powerful addition to any WordPress site.

Visit live demo to see the plugin in action.

🧠 AI-Powered Text-to-Speech (TTS)

  • Uses advanced AI neural networks to deliver natural-sounding speech from on-page content.
  • Supports multilingual voices, with various accents and gender choices.
  • Reads not just plain text, but also dynamic content, forms, and UI elements, enhancing usability for blind and visually impaired users.

🧩 Accessibility Widget Interface

  • Embeds a fully customizable accessibility widget on your site.
  • Users can activate profiles like “Visually Impaired,” “Cognitive Disabilities,” “ADHD,” or “Epilepsy Safe Mode” with one click.
  • The widget is fully responsive and mobile-friendly, adapting to any screen size.

🎨 Visual & Reading Adjustments

  • Font scaling (increase/decrease text size)
  • Line spacing, letter spacing, and word spacing customization
  • Changeable fonts, including dyslexia-friendly options
  • High contrast, low saturation, grayscale, inverted colors, brightness controls
  • Focus highlight and mouse pointer customization

🔎 Orientation & Navigation Aids

  • On-screen keyboard and screen ruler
  • Magnifier tool for enlarging portions of the screen
  • Focus enhancements for better navigation
  • Real-time highlighting of headers, links, and interactive elements

Seamless WordPress Integration

  • Easy setup with no coding required
  • Designed to work with major WordPress themes and page builders (e.g., Elementor, WPBakery, Gutenberg)
  • Loads asynchronously for fast performance and doesn’t interfere with other site scripts
  • Compliant with major accessibility guidelines: WCAG 2.1, ADA, Section 508, EAA, and more

Minimum Requirements

  • WordPress 6.7 or greater
  • PHP version 7.4 or greater
  • MySQL version 5.0 or greater

Recommended Hosting Requirements

  • WordPress 6.8 or greater
  • PHP version 8.2 or greater
  • MySQL version 8.0 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.4 or greater.
  • Nginx or Apache with mod_rewrite module
  • WordPress Memory limit of 64 MB or greater (128 MB or higher is preferred)
  • HTTPS support

External Services

This plugin connects to Readabler AI, a service operated by Merkulove, to provide the AI-powered accessibility features described above.

When the connection is used. The plugin only contacts the service once you have saved an Assistant Token on its settings screen. Without a token the plugin runs entirely from the files bundled with it and makes no external requests.

What is sent. com/api/core/v1/. The request carries your Assistant Token, which identifies your site to the service, and — as with any web request — your visitor’s IP address, browser user agent and the address of the page they are on.

The plugin sends no other personal data, and stores nothing about your visitors on your site.

Where to read the terms. com/data-processing-agreement/

Please make sure your own privacy policy reflects this if you enable the connected features.

Resources

  • Accessibility Dashboard
  • Create an account
  • Compare products
  • Live demo

The unminified source for the bundled scripts and styles is in the sources directory of the plugin.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

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

  • accessibility
  • ada
  • ai
  • eaa
  • wcag
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 7.0

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.7 · PHP 7.4
Update activity2 Sept 20262mo ago

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