Libration Accessibility

Libration Accessibility helps you make your WordPress site genuinely more accessible — with an assistive widget for your visitors and real fixes in your markup. Built for the European Accessibility Act (EAA, in Germany: BFSG) and WCAG 2.1 AA.

Everything in this plugin runs on your own server. There is no account, no access key and no time limit. Nothing here is switched off waiting to be bought.

Why not just an overlay?

German supervisory authorities have pointed out repeatedly that overlay tools alone do not make a website legally compliant. That’s why Libration Accessibility starts where barriers are actually created — in your code — and adds the widget as a useful extra for visitors, not as a substitute.

Real code fixes

The corrections are applied to the HTML your server sends out, before it reaches the browser. That means they work without JavaScript, reach screen readers from the first parse, and are seen by testing tools such as axe and Lighthouse.

• One main switch and twelve individual fixes: skip-link targets, image alt attributes, iframe titles, link names, form labels, autocomplete, table headers, navigation labels, current-page marking, positive tabindex, new-window links, decorative SVGs
• Every intervention is counted per page view and can be inspected in the admin area
• The plugin only adds what is missing and never replaces what you wrote — with one deliberate exception: a positive tabindex is reset to 0, because a broken focus order cannot be repaired by adding anything

Assistive widget — in 28 European languages

• Contrast modes: invert colors, monochrome, dark and light contrast, saturation
• Highlight links and headings
• Content scaling, font size, line height and letter spacing
• Screen reader mode: click any paragraph and it is read aloud by your browser
• Reading mode for distraction-free text
• Fully brandable: 4 positions, three sizes, separate offsets for desktop and mobile, custom icon (including your own upload), accent color, panel radius — hooks into your theme via CSS variables, dark mode included
• Floating button, Gutenberg block, shortcode, and ready-made modules for Elementor, WPBakery and Divi

Audit tools

• Overview with a traffic light per area: what is done, what comes next, and what no tool can decide for you
• WCAG/EAA checklist with progress tracking, including the six additions of WCAG 2.2
• Alt-text audit for the media library: every image without alternative text, with the posts it appears in, editable right there — plus a “decorative” shortcut for images that should carry an empty alt attribute, and a CSV export of the full list
• Contrast calculator: enter a foreground and a background color and get the ratio, the WCAG verdict for normal and large text, a live preview, and a corrected color that only shifts lightness, so your hue and saturation survive. Checked pairs can be kept as a working list
• Tab order: visualize the focus order of your pages and find the places where it jumps
• History: what you have fixed and checked off over time, recorded locally, so you can see whether things are getting better
• A status widget on your WordPress dashboard, and an entry in the admin bar — both can be switched off

Privacy

The plugin runs entirely on your server and makes no external requests at all — no scan server, no AI service, no update check of its own, no CDN, no web fonts, no telemetry.

It sets no cookies. The settings a visitor chooses in the widget are kept in their browser’s local storage and never reach your server, so they also do not break your page cache.

The only thing that ever leaves your server is an optional notification e-mail to your own admin address when an image is uploaded without an alt text. It is off unless you switch it on.

There is no credit link on your website. A small “powered by” note can be switched on under Settings → Accessibility → Widget if you want to show it — it is off unless you turn it on.

What is not in this plugin

Some things cannot be done on your own server, and some are part of the paid version. They are not included here — not as disabled code, not as a dead interface, not as a form that refuses to save. The tab “Libration Pro” lists them so you can see what exists:

• an automated accessibility scan of your public pages (axe-core in a real browser), also on a schedule
• AI-generated alt texts, Easy Language versions and read-aloud with natural voices
• the accessibility statement generator and the audit report as PDF
• captions and transcripts for video and audio, and the accessibility check for PDF documents

These are available in Libration Pro, a paid version sold separately — see features and pricing. Pro starts at 14.90 € per month and site, the AI features at 29.90 €; both are cancellable monthly. You do not need any of them to use everything described above: nothing in this plugin is capped, time-limited or waiting for a key.

Credits

The icons in the admin screens and in the widget are inline SVGs from
Tabler Icons, outline set, version 3.46.0.
Tabler Icons are published under the MIT License,
Copyright (c) 2020-2024 Paweł Kuna —
https://github.com/tabler/tabler-icons/blob/main/LICENSE