Looking for an AccessibleWP alternative?

Last updated: 31 October 2026

AccessibleWP – Accessibility Toolbar is a free WordPress plugin used on more than 10,000 sites. Quicksloth Accessibility Toolbar is a newer free plugin that does a similar job. This page puts the two side by side, using only what AccessibleWP's WordPress.org listing and its plugin code say, so you can decide whether to keep it or switch.

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.

Why people look for a replacement

On 31 October 2026 the WordPress.org listing of "AccessibleWP – Accessibility Toolbar" showed version 5.4.0, last updated on 3 October 2024, tested up to WordPress 6.6.11, with more than 10,000 active installations and an average of 4.5 out of 5 from 47 ratings (39 five-star, 3 four-star, 5 one-star). The current WordPress release that day was 7.1.4. The listing shows this notice:

"This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress."

That does not mean the plugin has stopped working on your site: test your own pages before you decide. The listing names UserWay as the plugin's author; the plugin's own files still list Codenroll as the author.

What stays the same

Both plugins are free, both work without an account, and both serve the toolbar's script and styles from your own WordPress site (AccessibleWP's icon font aside, see below). AccessibleWP has an optional "Connect" tab for its own platform, and its code only contacts that platform when you click Connect. A reviewer in June 2025 wrote "For a free plug-in, this is pretty good", liking that each option could be turned on and off; if AccessibleWP still does what you need, there may be no reason to move.

Where the two differ

• Requests to other servers. In version 5.4.0 of AccessibleWP, every page of your site loads the Material Icons stylesheet from fonts.googleapis.com, unless you tick "Hide the icons of the accessibility options". Every page also loads a script that sends an event to api.userway.org with your site's address: once at the first page of each browser session, and again each time a visitor clicks the toolbar button. We found no setting that turns these events off. When a browser sends a request to another server, that server receives the visitor's IP address and browser details, as with any web request. Our plugin sends no requests to other servers.
• Cookies. AccessibleWP saves each visitor's choices in cookies that last one day, unless you tick "Disable the use of cookies". Our toolbar sets no cookies; a visitor's choices stay in their own browser's storage (plugin privacy notice).
• Tools. AccessibleWP has 8 buttons: Keyboard Navigation, Disable Animations, Contrast, Increase Text, Decrease Text, Readable Font, Mark Titles and Highlight Links & Buttons. Ours has 25, among them line height, letter spacing, a dyslexia-friendly font, a reading guide and mask, and mute media.
• What only AccessibleWP has. A Decrease Text button (our text size only goes up, in four steps to 175%), your own colors for contrast mode and marked titles, a choice of readable font (Arial, Tahoma or one you name), options to exclude parts of the page from contrast and text size, and links in the panel to your accessibility statement and feedback pages. AccessibleWP also has more language files: German and Hebrew translations on translate.wordpress.org and a French file in the plugin. Our toolbar's labels are in English until translations are published.
• Branding and dashboard. AccessibleWP's panel always ends with a "Powered with ♥ by" credit linking to its author (Codenroll, or Amit Moreno on right-to-left sites), and after activation the dashboard shows a notice inviting you to install UserWay. Our toolbar shows no logo or link to us unless you turn on an optional credit line, and the plugin adds no dashboard notices (only a one-time review request on its own settings page after two weeks); its one settings page sits under Settings.
• Track record. AccessibleWP has been in the directory since April 2015, with thousands of sites and public reviews. Ours is new, listed since 21 October 2026, and has no ratings yet.

Side by side

Information about AccessibleWP comes from its WordPress.org listing, the public WordPress.org plugin and translation APIs, and the code of plugin version 5.4.0 from the WordPress.org plugin repository, all read on 31 October 2026. The tool names are theirs and ours; similar names may not work in exactly the same way. If something has changed, tell us at support@quicksloth.dev and we will correct this page.

What neither 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. AccessibleWP's own readme says it "does not cover all the guidelines required according to the WCAG"; we make no compliance claim for ours either. Read what a widget can and cannot do for the European Accessibility Act before you rely on any toolbar.

How to switch in 5 minutes

The toolbar has no data to bring across: visitors' choices live in their own browsers, and our plugin does not import AccessibleWP's settings.

1. Open AccessibleWP → Toolbar in your dashboard and note which tools you hid, the side, the toolbar color and any statement, feedback or site map links.
2. Go to Plugins → Add Plugin, search for "Quicksloth Accessibility Toolbar", click Install Now, then Activate.
3. Under Settings → Accessibility Toolbar, pick the corner, the color and the tools you want shown.
4. In Plugins → Installed Plugins, deactivate AccessibleWP – Accessibility Toolbar, check a page of your site, then delete it if you no longer need it.
5. If you linked an accessibility statement or a feedback page from AccessibleWP's panel, link it from your site's footer or menu instead: our free toolbar has no such links.

Where to find each AccessibleWP tool

Other options

• WP Accessibility by Joe Dolson is free, updated in October 2026, and fixes some common theme problems besides offering an optional toolbar (WordPress.org listing).
• OneTap is a popular free toolbar with a paid Pro: see how it compares with ours.
• UserWay, the company named as AccessibleWP's author, has its own plugin connected to its paid service: see the UserWay comparison.

Questions

Will my settings carry over?

No. The two plugins store their settings differently, so you set ours once, in a few minutes, on one settings page.

Does it slow my site?

Our toolbar loads one deferred script of about 9 KB gzipped and panel styles of about 2 KB, with no jQuery and no web fonts from other servers. The page rules and the dyslexia-friendly font load only when a visitor turns on a tool that needs them.

Does it make my site compliant?

No. 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. Our accessibility checklist is a place to start.

Try it

Open the live demo to use every tool on a sample page, get the plugin from its WordPress.org listing, 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, UserWay and accessiBe. Questions: support@quicksloth.dev.