QuickslothLooking for an accessiBe alternative on WordPress?
Last updated: 23 October 2026
accessiBe sells accessWidget, a paid accessibility service that also has a WordPress plugin with more than 10,000 active installations. Quicksloth Accessibility Toolbar is a free plugin built a different way: a visitor toolbar that runs from your own site, with no account and no subscription. This page puts the two side by side, using only what accessiBe's public pages and plugin code say, so you can decide which one fits your site.
Quicksloth Accessibility Toolbar is free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory since 21 October 2026. You can also try it on our live demo page.
An accessibility toolbar helps some visitors; it does not make a website conform to WCAG or to the law. Fix your content and code first.
accessiBe in short
On 23 October 2026 the WordPress.org listing of "Web Accessibility by accessiBe" showed version 2.13, last updated on 23 February 2026, in the directory since November 2019, with more than 10,000 active installations and an average of 4.1 out of 5 from 32 ratings (24 five-star, 1 three-star, 1 two-star, 6 one-star).
The plugin connects your site to accessWidget, accessiBe's paid service. Its installation steps end with "Sign up to accessiBe in the plugin" and "Select the domain to start your 7-day free trial". The listing describes an interface where visitors can "increase font size and change font types, adjust color contrasts, and stop animations", and an AI that "automatically scans and remediates inaccessible elements on your website every 24 hours". Two reviewers complain that the plugin has no free features ("All of its features are behind a paywall"); another, who found it "pricey", also wrote that the plugin is "well done" and helps them make the site more accessible.
The 2025 FTC settlement
In 2025 accessiBe settled with the US Federal Trade Commission. The complaint alleged that the company "represented that accessWidget could make any website compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines"; the consent order, approved in final form in April 2025, requires accessiBe to pay 1 million dollars (Federal Register notice, 6 January 2025, FTC file 222 3156). accessiBe's terms of service say that no service, accessWidget included, "guarantees that a Customer Website achieves, or continues to maintain, full compliance" with WCAG or the law. We make no compliance claim for our toolbar either.
Where the two differ
- Where the toolbar comes from. In version 2.13 of accessiBe's plugin, once the widget is set up for your domain, every page loads its script from
acsbapp.com, and the settings page loads a page fromuniversal.accessibe.cominside WordPress. Our toolbar's files are served by your own WordPress site and the plugin sends no requests to other servers. - Account and price. accessiBe asks you to sign up and, after the 7-day trial, to pay for a plan. Ours needs no account, and the whole toolbar is free.
- Data sent from your site. When a browser loads a script from another server, that server receives the visitor's IP address and browser details, as with any web request. Separately, the code of accessiBe's plugin 2.13 sends an event from your server to
dashboard.accessibe.comwhen the plugin is first activated, updated or uninstalled, including the site's domain and the email address and username of the WordPress user who does it. Our toolbar sets no cookies; a visitor's choices stay in their own browser (plugin privacy notice). - What only accessiBe has. Automated scans and fixes "without touching your source code", reports, and, from the Growth plan up, what accessiBe calls "Litigation Support". We have not tested accessiBe's automated fixes and make no claim about them. Our toolbar fixes nothing in your pages. accessiBe's plugin is available in 5 languages on WordPress.org; our toolbar's labels are in English until translations are published on translate.wordpress.org.
- Track record. accessiBe has more than 10,000 WordPress sites and years of public reviews. Ours is new to the directory and has no ratings yet.
Side by side
| Quicksloth Accessibility Toolbar | Web Accessibility by accessiBe (as of 23 October 2026) | |
|---|---|---|
| Account | None | Sign-up in the plugin, then a 7-day free trial |
| Where the toolbar loads from | Your own WordPress site | accessiBe's servers (acsbapp.com), per the plugin's code |
| Settings | A WordPress page under Settings | A page from universal.accessibe.com, shown inside WordPress |
| Free version | The whole toolbar: 25 tools, none of them paid | 7-day free trial |
| Automated fixes to your pages | None | Scans and fixes every 24 hours, in every plan |
| Paid plans | Pro planned, not available to buy yet: $39 / $79 / $149 a year for 1 / 3 / unlimited sites | Micro $490 a year (up to 5,000 visits a month), Growth $1,490 a year (up to 30,000), Scale $3,990 a year (up to 100,000), Enterprise above 100,000 on request. Prices with yearly billing; monthly billing costs more ($59, $179 and $479 a month). Visits are estimated with Similarweb (pricing page). |
| Needs | WordPress 6.0, PHP 7.4; tested up to 7.1 | WordPress 4.7, PHP 7.0; tested up to 6.9.10 |
| Directory | Listed since 21 October 2026 (new, no ratings yet) | More than 10,000 active installations, 4.1 out of 5 |
The paid plans are not the same kind of product, so compare them with care. accessiBe prices by your site's traffic and its plans are a service with automated fixes, reports and support; our Pro is planned as an annual license per number of sites and adds visitor features to the toolbar: the Pro page lists them.
Information about accessiBe comes from its WordPress.org listing and the public WordPress.org plugin API, the code of plugin version 2.13 downloaded from WordPress.org, accessiBe's accessWidget pricing and terms of service, all read on 23 October 2026, and the Federal Register notice of 6 January 2025. If something has changed, tell us at support@quicksloth.dev and we will correct this page.
What no toolbar does
A toolbar changes how a page looks in one visitor's browser. It does not add missing alt text, fix a heading order, label form fields or make a theme usable with a keyboard. Read what a widget can and cannot do for the European Accessibility Act before you rely on any toolbar or overlay.
Moving over
The toolbar has no data to bring across: visitors' choices live in their own browsers.
- Note the button position, color and size you set in accessiBe's settings.
- In your dashboard go to Plugins → Add Plugin, search for "Quicksloth Accessibility Toolbar", click Install Now, then Activate.
- Under Settings → Accessibility Toolbar, pick the corner, the color and the tools you want shown.
- In Plugins → Installed Plugins, deactivate Web Accessibility by accessiBe, check a page of your site, then delete it if you no longer need it.
- If you have a paid accessiBe plan, it is billed by accessiBe, not by WordPress: check its renewal and cancellation terms in your accessiBe account.
- If you relied on accessiBe's automated fixes (for example image descriptions), check that your WordPress content has them too: our toolbar does not add them.
Try it
Open the live demo to use every tool on a sample page, or read what the plugin does, what it does not do and how to set it up. Also comparing other toolbars? See One Click Accessibility (Ally), OneTap and UserWay. Questions: support@quicksloth.dev.