QuickslothLooking for a UserWay alternative on WordPress?
Last updated: 23 October 2026
UserWay is among the most installed accessibility widgets on WordPress.org, with more than 80,000 active installations. Quicksloth Accessibility Toolbar is a smaller, newer plugin built a different way: the toolbar runs from your own site, with no account. This page puts the two side by side, using only what UserWay'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.
UserWay in short
On 20 October 2026 the WordPress.org listing of "Accessibility by UserWay" showed version 2.6.6, last updated on 8 December 2025, in the directory since January 2017, with more than 80,000 active installations and an average of 4 out of 5 from 57 ratings (40 five-star, 1 four-star, 3 three-star, 13 one-star). Among the recent reviews, several praise quick support and an easy setup. One reviewer listed "Performs its basic function well" among the good points but disliked an admin banner with no option to dismiss it for good; another wrote that the plugin "might be wonderful" but did not want to sign up just to test it.
The plugin is a connector to UserWay's own service. Its installation steps end with "Sign-up plug-in on Settings-> UserWay page", and the listing says "you will receive login instructions to the widget via email". UserWay offers a free widget, and its comparison page says paid plans add automated code fixes, a screen reader and "50+ Pro features".
Where the two differ
- Where the toolbar comes from. In version 2.6.6 of UserWay's plugin, once the site is linked to a UserWay account, every page loads the widget script from
cdn.userway.org, and the settings page loads a page fromapi.userway.orginside WordPress. Our toolbar's files are served by your own WordPress site and the plugin sends no requests to other servers. - Account. UserWay asks you to sign up. Ours needs no account: install, activate, choose your settings.
- Visitor data. 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. UserWay's privacy policy (effective 10 June 2026) says that personal information about a customer's end users is "generally" processed "on the customer’s behalf and under the applicable customer relationship". Our toolbar sets no cookies; a visitor's choices stay in their own browser (plugin privacy notice).
- What only UserWay has. Paid plans with "automated code fixes", which UserWay says improve accessibility "without changing the source code", a built-in screen reader, page monitoring, and audits and VPATs as a service. We have not tested UserWay's automated fixes and make no claim about them. Our toolbar fixes nothing in your pages. UserWay's plugin is translated into 18 languages on WordPress.org (the admin texts; the widget's own languages are set in UserWay's dashboard). Our toolbar's labels are in English until translations are published on translate.wordpress.org.
- Track record. UserWay has more than 80,000 WordPress sites and years of public reviews. Ours is new to the directory, listed since 21 October 2026, and has no ratings yet.
Side by side
| Quicksloth Accessibility Toolbar | Accessibility by UserWay (as of 20 October 2026) | |
|---|---|---|
| Account | None | Sign-up on the plugin's settings page |
| Where the toolbar loads from | Your own WordPress site | UserWay's servers (cdn.userway.org), per the plugin's code |
| Cookies | None; choices stay in the visitor's browser | Its privacy policy says it uses cookies and similar technologies for its "websites and software services"; it does not say which ones the widget sets. |
| Settings | A WordPress page under Settings | A page from api.userway.org, shown inside WordPress |
| Free version | The whole toolbar: 25 tools, none of them paid | A free widget with "usability features" |
| Automated fixes to your pages | None | "Automated code fixes" in paid plans |
| Paid plans | Pro planned, not available to buy yet: $39 / $79 / $149 a year for 1 / 3 / unlimited sites | Pro widget from $490 a year (up to 100K page views a month; $1,490 up to 1M; over 1M on request). Pro Plus from $1,190 and Ultimate from $2,490 a year at the 100K level; higher traffic levels cost more. Prices shown with annual billing; monthly billing is also offered (pricing page). |
| Needs | WordPress 6.0, PHP 7.4; tested up to 7.1 | WordPress 4.7; tested up to 6.9.10 |
| Directory | Listed since 21 October 2026 (new, no ratings yet) | More than 80,000 active installations, 4 out of 5 |
The paid plans are not the same kind of product, so compare them with care. UserWay prices by page views and its paid plans include services such as automated fixes and monitoring; 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 UserWay comes from its WordPress.org listing and the public WordPress.org plugin API, the code of plugin version 2.6.6 downloaded from WordPress.org, and UserWay's pricing, free vs. Pro and privacy pages, all read on 20 October 2026. 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. UserWay's listing says its solutions "move your site towards ADA and WCAG 2.1 compliance"; we make no such claim for ours. Read what a widget can and cannot do for the European Accessibility Act before you rely on any toolbar.
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 UserWay's dashboard.
- 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 Accessibility by UserWay, check a page of your site, then delete it if you no longer need it.
- If you have a paid UserWay plan, it is billed by UserWay, not by WordPress: check its renewal and cancellation terms in your UserWay account.
- If you added alt text or other fixes in UserWay's dashboard, check that they are also in your WordPress content: 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 accessiBe. Questions: support@quicksloth.dev.