About this plugin
Make your WordPress website more accessible
Welcoma Accessibility Widget adds a lightweight, customizable accessibility widget to your WordPress website. It gives visitors an easy-to-use toolkit for adjusting text, color, reading and navigation settings to suit their needs without permanently changing your website’s content or design.
Whether you call it accessibility, a11y or simply being a good ally to every visitor, Welcoma gives your website practical tools to welcome more people.
2, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the European Accessibility Act (EAA), Germany’s Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG) and Section 508.
No coding, page-builder changes or design edits are required. Install the plugin, choose the tools you want to provide, customize the widget and publish it on your website.
✨ Key features
➜ 30 accessibility tools and 5 profiles, with 10 more tools (40 in total) and 5 more profiles in the separate Welcoma Pro add-on
➜ Ready-made accessibility profiles for common browsing needs
➜ Text, color, reading, navigation and motor-support tools
➜ Keyboard-navigable accessibility menu
➜ Built-in Accessibility Statement generator
➜ Widget interface available in 26 languages
➜ Optional page translation and other advanced tools in the separate Welcoma Pro add-on
➜ Customizable position, size, built-in launcher icon and color theme
➜ Responsive design for desktop, tablet and mobile
➜ Plain JavaScript with no front-end framework dependency
➜ Visitor preferences stored locally in the visitor’s browser
➜ No visitor analytics or advertising cookies added by the widget
Accessibility profiles
Accessibility profiles let visitors enable a curated combination of adjustments with one click instead of configuring each tool separately.
Included profiles can support needs such as:
✔ Reduced motion and flashing
✔ Improved visibility and readability
✔ Dyslexia-friendly reading
✔ Low vision
✔ Color vision support
✔ ADHD-friendly browsing (Pro)
✔ Cognitive support (Pro)
✔ Senior-friendly browsing (Pro)
✔ Motor and keyboard support (Pro)
✔ Screen-reader and blind-user support (Pro)
Welcoma Pro also lets site administrators build and save custom accessibility profiles.
Accessibility tools
This plugin includes 30 tools across the following groups. The 10 tools marked (Pro) are provided by the separately distributed Welcoma Pro add-on and are not included in this plugin; with Pro, the widget offers 40 tools.
Visual and text adjustments
✔ Font Size
✔ Line Height
✔ Letter Spacing
✔ Font Weight
✔ Align Text
✔ Readable Font
✔ Dyslexic Font
✔ Zoom
✔ Text Magnifier
✔ Big Cursor
✔ Contrast
✔ Color Blindness Filter
✔ Color Invert
✔ Monochrome
✔ Saturation
✔ Brightness
✔ Text Color (Pro)
✔ Title Color (Pro)
✔ Background Color (Pro)
✔ Hide Images
Reading assistance
✔ Reading Line
✔ Reading Mask (Pro)
✔ Cognitive Load
✔ Text to Speech
✔ Voice and Reading Controls (Pro)
✔ Dictionary
Navigation and interaction
✔ Keyboard Navigation
✔ On-Screen Keyboard (Pro)
✔ Focus Highlight
✔ Skip to Content
✔ Highlight Links
✔ Highlight Titles
✔ Highlight Content
✔ Highlight Hover (Pro)
✔ Interactive Highlight (Pro)
✔ Stop Animations
✔ Page Structure
✔ Tooltips (Pro)
Audio, language and reset
✔ Mute Sounds
✔ Translate This Page (Pro)
✔ One-click reset
Widget customization
Customize the widget appearance from the WordPress dashboard to match your website. Available settings include:
➜ Widget position on the left or right side of the screen
➜ Horizontal and vertical offsets
➜ Launcher icon size
➜ Built-in launcher icons
➜ Launcher icon and background colors
➜ Header background, text and icon colors
➜ Menu background and text colors
➜ Module button colors for default and active states
➜ Reset button colors
➜ Footer background and text colors
Accessibility Statement generator
Create and publish an accessibility statement from the WordPress dashboard. The form includes fields aligned with common disclosure requirements, including details relevant to Germany’s BFSG Section 14 / Annex 3.
An accessibility statement should accurately reflect your website, testing process and remediation work. Review and update the generated content before publishing it.
Multilingual widget
The accessibility widget interface can display in 26 languages. Welcoma can detect the WordPress site language and use it as the initial widget language, while visitors can select another supported language when available.
The Core plugin ships its widget interface translations locally and does not send customized widget text to an external translation service. Optional machine translation features, when enabled by an administrator, are provided only by the separately distributed Welcoma Pro add-on.
The separately distributed Welcoma Pro add-on can add a Translate This Page tool; it documents that service in its own readme.
Built for performance and privacy
- Plain, dependency-free JavaScript on the front end
- No jQuery or external UI framework required by the widget
- Visitor preferences stored in localStorage in the visitor’s browser
- No visitor accessibility preferences stored on your server
- No visitor tracking or advertising cookies added by the widget
- Only enabled functionality and required assets are loaded
Accessibility standards and legal notice
Welcoma provides tools inspired by and designed to support work toward:
- WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.2
- ADA
- EAA
- BFSG
- Section 508
Important: installing an accessibility widget alone does not make a website fully accessible or guarantee legal compliance with WCAG, ADA, EAA, BFSG, Section 508 or any other standard or law. Accessibility also depends on your website’s content, HTML structure, keyboard behavior, forms, color choices, media alternatives and overall implementation. Welcoma is a visitor usability aid and is not a substitute for accessible design, development, testing and remediation.
Free and Pro
The Free plugin includes the core accessibility widget, 30 accessibility tools and 5 profiles, widget styling controls, responsive behavior, multilingual interface support and the Accessibility Statement generator.
Welcoma Pro is a separately distributed add-on that supplies 10 additional tools (40 in total) and 5 additional profiles, custom savable profiles, custom module labels, a custom accessibility title, custom launcher images, an optional connection to the Welcoma website scanner, optional machine translation, licensed updates and priority support.
Website scanner
app is live. 1 AA. Automated checks cover roughly a third of WCAG criteria, so the rest needs human review: keyboard use, screen-reader output, meaningful alternative text, understandable content and similar points.
app, not inside this plugin; this plugin only links to it.
More tools are available in the separate Welcoma Pro add-on → Explore Welcoma Pro · German: Preise
Suitable for many types of websites
Welcoma can be used on business websites, online stores, public-sector websites, educational platforms, healthcare websites, non-profit websites, agency sites, blogs, news portals and corporate websites.
🇩🇪 Made in Germany
Welcoma Accessibility Widget is developed and maintained by webAufstieg GmbH in Germany with a focus on privacy, quality and useful accessibility features.
Helpful links
- Welcoma website
- Welcoma website – German
- Integrations
- Website accessibility scanner
- Pricing and Pro plans
- Pricing and Pro plans: German
- Support and contact
- Blog
- Guides: German (Ratgeber)
- Accessibility
- Accessibility Statement
External services
The Core plugin uses external services only for the features listed below, and only when a visitor uses them. The separately distributed Welcoma Pro add-on documents its own services in its own readme.
Welcoma Dictionary service
Service provider: Welcoma / webAufstieg GmbH
The Dictionary tool is off by default. It only works when the site administrator enables it and a visitor switches it on in the widget. app/api/welcoma-dictionary so a definition can be returned.
No other page content and no cookies are sent. As with any web request, the service can see the visitor’s IP address. No request is made unless the visitor performs this action.
Terms and privacy:
- https://welcoma.app/terms-and-conditions/
- https://welcoma.app/privacy-policy/
The Accessibility Statement generator runs on your WordPress installation. Visitor accessibility preferences are stored locally in the visitor’s browser through localStorage.
Footer credit link
The widget footer shows a “Web Accessibility by Welcoma” credit. app/ and opens in a new tab. No data is sent when the link is displayed; a request is made only if a visitor clicks it.
The credit text is stored locally in the welcoma_footer_brand_text option. Sites with a connected paid Welcoma Pro licence can hide it.