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Your published content, read against thirteen WCAG criteria, and a way to work through what it finds.<\/p>","1.0.6":"
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The settings screen now checks whether the panel reached a page you built\nyourself, and on servers that allow it, offers to add the line for you.<\/p>","1.0.3":"
More dependable cache clearing after a settings change.<\/p>","1.0.2":"
Only one panel is shown when a theme already provides the same one.<\/p>","1.0.1":"
Bigger text now works on every theme, and the panel can be placed on a front end\nWordPress does not render with a single script tag.<\/p>","1.0.0":"
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Widewalk puts a small button in the corner of your site. A visitor presses it and\na panel opens with the settings they need in order to read you: bigger text, more\nair between the lines, letters further apart, links they can actually pick out of\na paragraph, a calmer palette, a pointer large enough to find. Whatever they\nchoose is kept in their own browser. Nobody else's view of your site moves an inch.<\/p>\n\n
You switch it on once. It works with the theme you already have, on the front end\nyou already have, and it asks nothing of your visitors in return.<\/p>\n\n
What you decide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n All twelve controls have their own switch, so you offer the ones that suit your\nsite and leave the rest off. You choose which bottom corner the button sits in.\nYou publish your accessibility statement from the same screen, in a long or a\nshort version. That is the whole settings page, and there is nothing to\nconfigure before it works.<\/p>\n\n The name comes from pavements built wide enough for everyone at the same time:\nthe wheelchair, the pushchair, the delivery trolley, and the people walking\nalongside them. Widen the path rather than build a second one round the back.<\/p>\n\n What a visitor can change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Each control steps through its settings as it is pressed, and the button says\nwhich step it is on. \"Line Height (1.75x)\" or \"Low Saturation\" tells a visitor\nwhere they are without making them guess.<\/p>\n\n Twelve of them, and each has its own switch on the settings screen. Offer the\nones that suit your site and leave the rest off.<\/p>\n\n This is not an overlay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Worth saying plainly, because that word has earned its reputation. Widewalk does\nnot scan your pages, does not rewrite them for everybody, and makes no claim\nabout your legal compliance. Those three promises are what the overlay industry\nsells, and no plugin is in a position to keep them.<\/p>\n\n Accessibility lives in your own markup. Your headings, your alt text, your colour\ncontrast, your link text, your forms. Five minutes with any plugin will not\nchange what is underneath.<\/p>\n\n What Widewalk does is smaller and it is true. It hands a visitor the settings\nthey would otherwise have to fight your stylesheet for, which is real help to\nsomebody with low vision, or dyslexia, or a migraine coming on, or a phone held\nup in bright sunlight. Do the underlying work as well. This sits beside it.<\/p>\n\n It writes your accessibility statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Any site that offers a panel like this ought to say what it is aiming for and how\nto report a problem. Most plugins tell you to go away and write one. Widewalk\nwrites it for you, out of what you have actually switched on, and shows you the\nwhole thing before a word of it is published.<\/p>\n\n Choose the complete version, which follows the structure the W3C recommends, or\nthe short one if your site is small. You supply two things: an address where\nsomebody can report a barrier, and the number of working days you will take to\nreply. Promise something you can keep.<\/p>\n\n Publish it and you have an ordinary WordPress page, yours to edit like any other.\nWidewalk will not overwrite it later. The wording claims partial conformance and\nnothing beyond that, because a plugin cannot certify a site it has never seen.<\/p>\n\n Built to survive your theme<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The panel renders inside a shadow root. Your stylesheet cannot reach into it, and\nits stylesheet cannot leak out into your pages. It has been measured against a\ntheme written for the sole purpose of breaking it: global button rules marked\n !important, a forced box model, oversized icons, a page claiming the highest\nstacking order there is. It came through without a mark.<\/p>\n\n Block themes, classic themes, page builders. It mounts on Works past WordPress, too<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Plenty of sites keep WordPress for the admin and build their public pages in\nplain PHP, in React, or as static files. Nothing on those pages runs a WordPress\nfooter, so the panel never arrives. Add one line to your own instead:<\/p>\n\n Same panel, same controls, the settings you already chose. Nothing else to set up.<\/p>\n\n Light, and quiet about it<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Made to the standard it talks about<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Who installs it<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Sites whose readers are not all twenty-five with good eyes and a large monitor.\nCharities, galleries, schools, clinics, councils, artists, shops, small\nnewsrooms. Anywhere that would rather be read than admired.<\/p>\n\n Widewalk works fully without contacting anything. One optional feature sends a\nshort note to WalletUp, and only after you press the button that sends it.<\/p>\n\n What it is.<\/strong> A dated record of your content report's three counts, kept once a\nweek off your own server, so you can show the accessibility work you are doing,\nwatch the counts fall over time, and still have the record after a reinstall.<\/p>\n\n What is sent, and when.<\/strong> Once at the moment you press the button, then once a\nweek while it stays switched on. Every field is shown on the settings screen,\nfilled in with your own values, before you press anything:<\/p>\n\n No page content, no post or page titles, no email address, no user account, no\nIP-based profile, and nothing about anyone visiting your site.<\/p>\n\n When a site connects for the first time, WalletUp fetches one public address on\nit, \/wp-json\/widewalk\/v1\/registry, to confirm the note really came from that\nsite and not from someone naming it. That address answers with a yes and a\ncheck value; it carries no content and no settings.<\/p>\n\n To show you your weeks, the settings screen asks for them back with site, token\nand the word history, at most once an hour.<\/p>\n\n Pressing stop sends site, token and the word leave, deletes your numbers there,\nand removes everything the plugin kept about it here. Nothing else is sent at\nany time.<\/p>\n\n Where it goes.<\/strong> https:\/\/walletup.app\/wp-json\/widewalk-registry\/v1\/site , run by\nWalletUp. Terms: https:\/\/walletup.app\/terms\/ . Privacy: https:\/\/walletup.app\/privacy\/<\/p>\n\n Widewalk tells the page about every preference, so a theme can respond in ways the toolbar cannot know about, such as swapping a hero video for a still, reflowing a grid, or replacing a decorative image with its caption.<\/p>\n\n Attributes on the html element (a stable contract):<\/p>\n\n Events on document:<\/p>\n\n Mark any element the toolbar should leave alone with data-widewalk-keep. Images, media and animations inside it stay untouched when images are hidden or motion is paused.<\/p>\n\n\n That is the whole setup. There is nothing to configure before it works.<\/p>\n\n\n No, and treat anything that says otherwise with suspicion. Conformance rests on\nyour own markup: headings, alt text, contrast, link text, forms, error messages.\nWidewalk helps a visitor read what you have written. It cannot repair what sits\nunderneath. Use it alongside the real work.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. An overlay scans your page and rewrites it for every visitor, usually with a\npromise of automatic compliance attached. Widewalk changes nothing until a\nvisitor asks it to, changes it only for that visitor, and promises nothing about\nyour legal position.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Plenty of sites keep WordPress for the admin and build their public pages\nin plain PHP, in React, or as static files. Nothing on those pages runs a\nWordPress footer, so add one line to your own:<\/p>\n\n That is the whole integration. It reads the settings you chose in the admin and\nmounts the same panel, with the same controls.<\/p>\n\n Settings has the line ready to copy, and a box where you can give it one of your\nown pages. It will fetch that page and tell you whether the line arrived, so you\nare not left guessing.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. The panel lives inside a shadow root, so your theme's rules do not reach it\nand its rules do not escape into your pages. It has been tested against popular\nthemes and against a stylesheet built on purpose to wreck it. Block themes,\nclassic themes and page builders are all fine.<\/p><\/dd>\n Everything a visitor downloads comes to roughly 7 KB gzipped: one stylesheet, one\nsmall script, no framework, no jQuery. With the panel switched off, nothing is\nadded to your pages at all.<\/p><\/dd>\n Nothing. No tracking, no analytics, no account, no cookie. Preferences are held\nin local storage in the visitor's own browser. Nothing about a visitor is read,\nkept or sent, and that does not change if you connect the site: the note that\ntravels then is about the site, never about anyone reading it.<\/p><\/dd>\n There is nothing about your visitors to disclose: nothing is collected about\nthem, nothing is stored and nothing is shared. Preferences never leave their\ndevice. If you connect the site, what travels is your own site address and a\ncount of findings, which is yours to decide on and yours to undo.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. All twelve have their own switch. Offer what suits your site and leave the\nrest off.<\/p><\/dd>\n If you are offering a panel like this, you should say what you are aiming for,\nwhat you know still falls short, and how somebody tells you about a barrier.\nPublic bodies in many countries are required to publish one. Widewalk writes the\npage in two lengths and links the panel to it.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. The panel is built for touch as much as for mouse and keyboard, and the\ncontrols are large enough to press without aiming.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Every control is reachable by keyboard with a visible focus outline. The\npanel is a labelled dialog, focus is held inside it and returned when it closes,\nand each change is announced.<\/p><\/dd>\n A slideshow that moves on a timer is a script, and a plugin cannot safely reach\ninto another script's timers. Widewalk stops what it can reach: animation and\ntransitions from your stylesheet, video and sound, and moving SVG.<\/p>\n\n For the rest it tells your page, and the page can stop itself. Two lines in your\ntheme are enough. Widewalk puts Put that at the top of whatever advances your slides, and it will hold still\nwhile a visitor has asked it to.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. When a visitor's device asks for less motion, the panel stops animating.\nThey can also pause animation across your whole site from inside the panel.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n
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Does this make my site ADA or WCAG compliant?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is Widewalk an accessibility overlay?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
My site's front end isn't WordPress. Can I still use it?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
<script src=\"\/wp-content\/plugins\/widewalk\/assets\/embed.js\" defer><\/script>\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nWill it work with my theme?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will it slow my site down?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it collect anything about my visitors?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is it GDPR-friendly?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I choose which controls appear?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Do I really need an accessibility statement?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work on phones?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can somebody use it with a keyboard, or a screen reader?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Pausing animation does not stop my slideshow. Why?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
data-a11y-animations<\/code> on the html<\/code> element,\nand fires a widewalk:motion<\/code> event on the document:<\/p>\n\nif (document.documentElement.hasAttribute('data-a11y-animations')) return;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nDoes it respect \"reduce motion\"?<\/h3><\/dt>\n