what is Readabler?
Readabler is a WordPress accessibility plugin that expands the boundaries of information accessibility for people with special portability. The availability of content for people with special needs or difficulties with information perception is the most important part of each site’s operation.
According to the World Health Organization research: globally, 1 billion people have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or has yet to be addressed.
These 1 billion people include those with moderate or severe distance vision impairment or blindness due to unaddressed refractive error (123.7 million), cataract (65.2 million), glaucoma (6.9 million), corneal opacities (4.2 million), diabetic retinopathy (3 million), and trachoma (2 million), as well as near vision impairment caused by unaddressed presbyopia (826 million).
The accessibility plugin for WordPress will make publications on your website accessible to people with perception problems, cognitive impairments, hearing or vision impairments.
The Readabler is a lightweight and powerful solution for increasing content accessibility on any WordPress site. The plugin is built on JavaScript, making it fully compatible with most existing WordPress Themes and extensions. It also allows the plugin to work quickly in any modern browser, both on a mobile device, laptop, and desktop computer.
Using the plugin settings, it is possible to choose a flexible set of settings and options that will be used on your site. Simultaneously, the plugin has 5 pre-installed profiles that will increase the accessibility of your site for people with Epilepsy, Visual Impaired, Cognitive Disability, ADHC, and also partially or completely blind.
Readable Experience
One of the plugin’s main features is to improve the readability of text content. To solve this problem, the plugin has settings for scaling the entire page or only some types of test, for example, a heading or plain text. Also important for readability are the settings for increasing line and letter spacing, changing all texts’ alignment.
For people who find it difficult to read text written in calligraphic or sans fonts, the plugin provides a mode for changing the font on the entire site to readable or to a font for people who have Dyslexia.
Of course, an important part of any site is interaction with the page, for which the plugin provides modes for highlighting texts and titles and a magnifier that enlarges the text when you hover the mouse cursor over it.
Visually pleasing
For people with visual impairments, the plugin offers a set of settings to optimize the look of the entire page or individual elements on the page.
In addition to the usual brightness, saturation, and contrast controls, the plugin will make the website monochrome in black and white.
And the change in font and background colors makes available text unreadable or unnoticeable in normal mode and increases the accessibility of the content on the page.
Easy to orient WordPress Accessibility Plugin – Readabler
A large group of settings to improve WordPress Accessibility for people with disorientation. Readabler automatically parses the page at load time and generates a list of all page links. Some links go unnoticed or inaccessible for whatever reason.
One of the key settings in this group allows you to turn off anything that might flicker or flicker, such as videos, CSS animations, and animated GIFs.
Large black and white cursors are available in the plugin to facilitate mouse navigation. Several modes to improve subject selection on hover and focus, and a mode for controlling the page from the keyboard.
For those who can’t use the keyboard for test text input, we’ve added a full virtual keyboard to the plugin. This is a virtual keyboard on which you can enter text using actions such as a mouse or trackpad.
Text-to-speech WordPress Accessibility Plugin – Readabler
An important setting for the visually impaired is to recognize and sound the text on the page. Readabler uses the latest in machine learning and artificial intelligence technology to play high-quality human voices. The basis of the Text-to-Speech recognition is the Google Cloud Platform, which ensures the reliability and speed of the plugin anywhere in the world.
The WordPress Readabler plugin converts text to human-like speech in over 240 voices across 40+ languages and variations. It applies groundbreaking research in speech synthesis (WaveNet) and Google’s powerful neural network to deliver high-fidelity audio.
All you need to do to hear text from the page is turn on the settings mode and select the text. Please note that Google may charge additional fees for using this option.
Online dictionary WordPress Accessibility Plugin – Readabler
For those who have memory problems or forget to define things and concepts, we have added Wikipedia to the plugin. To access Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base, you need to open the accessibility panel and write a word to clarify the meaning in the search field. In a few seconds, Wikipedia will display everything it knows about the thing or concept. And all this happens without leaving your site and the cozy atmosphere of accessibility that users have established for themselves.
Private WordPress Accessibility Plugin – Readabler
An important part of this is that user preferences are saved after leaving the site. This means you don’t have to add anything new to the site’s Privacy Policy and Data Protection Policy and remain GDPR, CCPA compatible.
Main features of Readabler-WordPress Accessibility Plugin
- Flexible accessible settings have been set
- Draggable accessibility window
- Accessibility button animation appears
- Flexible style setting of the button
- WCAG 2.0 (AAA) compliant code
- Text recognition powered by Google cloud API
- Automatic language recognition in over 40 languages
- Includes exclusive access to WaveNet technology
- Compatible with Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder
- Works great with all popular WordPress Themes
- 7 Accessibility button placement
- Includes .pot and ready to translate
- Perfect for RTL . direction
- Valid native JavaScript, no jQuery
- Great Customization
- Beautiful modern user interface
- Tested and compatible with WordPress 5+
- Light and fast
- Compatible with all modern browsers
- Easy to use and customize
- Installation Instructions
- Detailed User Manual
- Six months including buyer support CodeCanyon
WordPress Accessibility Plugin – Readabler Changelogs:
“1.4.7 – 20 October 2022 Untouched.
Fixed adjusting text color for elements “
“1.4.6 – 18 October 2022 – Untouched.
Removed unnecessary translation functions for CSS attributes”
“1.4.5 – 13 October 2022 – Untouched.
Fixed appears of the Virtual Keyboard for text input fields without id”
“1.4.4 – 12 October 2022 – Untouched.
Resolved user interface error for PHP 8.1″
v1.4.1 – 3 September 2022
Added Marathi (India) language and 6 voices
v1.3.4 – 28 June 2022
Improved title scaling in the Avada
Fixed paragraphs stripping in accessibility statements
1.2.10 – 4 November 2021 – Untouched
Fixed saving accessibility settings if browser storage is unavailable
1.2.9 – 23 October 2021 – Untouched
“Big Black Cursor” replaced by “Big Dark Cursor”
“Big White Cursor” replaced by “Big Light Cursor”
>>>1.2.8 – 13 October 2021 – Untouched
Added voice guide on Text to Speech feature activation
Colors selection on front-end is fixed
1.2.7 – 5 October 2021 – Untouched
Added SSL verification setting
Improved compatibility with The 7 Theme
>>>1.2.6 – 4 October 2021 – Untouched.
Fixed cURL error
1.2.5- 16 August 2021
Added the option to exclude the plugin UI when parsing the CopyScape site
Added arrow for the Reading Guide
>>> 1.2.4 – 11 August 2021
Added data-nosnippet to prevent indexing content in the accessibility popup
Close Button styles improved
Popup mobile view improved
>>> v1.2.3 – 19 July 2021
Added option for hiding Reset button
Added option for hiding Hide forever button
Fixed the :focus styles for accessibility profiles
Improved Increase/Decrease aria-label for screen readers
Fixed the :focus styles for the float button
>>> v1.2.2 – 14 July 2021
Added Punjabi (India) language and 8 voice
Improved text magnifier position for mobile
>>> 1.2.1 – 3 July 2021
Added tabulation index for accessibility button
>>> 1.2.0 – 19 June 2021
Added dark color scheme for the virtual keyboard
Added Belarusian virtual keyboard layout
Added Bengali virtual keyboard layout
Added Nigerian virtual keyboard layout
Added Norwegians virtual keyboard layout
Added Uyghur virtual keyboard layout
Added Physical Keyboard pressing highlight for the virtual keyboard
>>> 1.1.8 – 16 June 2021
Added late loading CSS and JS option
Improves overview of the accessibility window in Light Contrast mode and Dark Contrast mode
>>> 1.1.7 – 15 June 2021
Added setting to control dragging of accessibility window
Fixed contrast of the accessibility window in Light Contrast mode
>>> 1.1.6 – 11 June 2021
Fixed a bug sometimes occurring when closing a popup window
>>> v1.1.5 – 8 June 2021
Improved SEO performance for Accessibility Statement
>>> 1.1.4 – 4 June 2021
Added opening accessibility popup by click on an element with class readabler-trigger
>>> 1.1.3 – 29 May 2021 (Clean Files)
Added Dutch (Belgium) language and 4 voices
Minimum required PHP version set to 7.1
>>> 1.1.2 – 14 May 2021
Added Malay (Malaysia) language and 4 voices
>>> 1.1.1 – 4 May 2021 MAY NEED NULLING – CLEAN FILES SHARED BY ME.
Fixed headings color for the dark browser theme
Fixed switcher color for the dark and light browser theme
>>> 1.0.6 – 19 March 2021
Fixed ADHD mode in Firefox
Increased popup z-index to 99999
>>> 1.0.5 – 13 March 2021
Added Catalan (Spain) language and 1 standard female voice
Added Afrikaans (South Africa) language and 1 standard female voice
Added Bulgarian (Български) language and 1 standard female voice
Added Latvian (Latvietis) language and 1 standard male voice
Added Serbian (Cрпски) language and 1 standard female voice
Added Icelandic (Íslensk) language and 1 standard female voice
Changed the way of loading Guzzle if another plugin already loads this library
Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.7
>>> 1.0.4 – 4 March February 2021
Added language choose for Wikipedia Dictionary
Added popup position setting for the first popup opening
Renamed “Screen-readers Compatibility Mode” to “Blindness Mode”
