EffectIO Readabler 2.0.17

Description:

Readabler is a WordPress accessibility plugin for people with perception problems, cognitive impairments, hearing or vision impairments. It offers a flexible set of controls to improve contrast and text readability and to convert text to speech. The draggable settings window and a button with 7 placement positions and customizable styles fit any site design.

The plugin includes 5 pre-installed profiles that increase accessibility for people with Epilepsy, Visual Impaired, Cognitive Disability, ADHD, and those partially or completely blind. Day and Night color themes switch automatically depending on browser settings or the operating system. Text to speech is based on the Google Cloud Platform, with more than 240 voices across 40+ languages and variants.

Readability settings cover scaling of the whole page or single text types, line and letter spacing, and text alignment. The plugin highlights titles, links and texts, offers a magnifier that enlarges text on hover, and adds a Wikipedia search field to clarify meanings. Font management includes a Dyslexia friendly font, and settings can disable flickering videos, CSS animations and animated GIFs. Large cursors in black and white, keyboard page control, muting website sound and an automatic list of all page links are also included. Built on JavaScript, it works with most WordPress themes and extensions in modern browsers on mobile, laptop and desktop.

The vendor’s own page for Readabler has the full details.

Main Features of Readabler:

• Converts text to speech using Google Cloud with more than 240 voices across 40+ languages and variants
• Includes 5 pre-installed accessibility profiles for epilepsy, visual impairment, cognitive disability, ADHD, and blindness
• Improves readability with page or text scaling, line and letter spacing controls, and text alignment changes
• Highlights titles, links, and text, with a magnifier that enlarges text on hover
• Offers a dyslexia friendly font mode and font management for the entire site
• Disables flickering content such as videos, CSS animations, and animated GIFs
• Provides 7 positions for the accessibility button with customizable icon and button styles

EffectIO members receive updates through the managed update channel. Install the EffectIO Connect plugin on your site and it handles activation, updates and licensing automatically.

Need a dashboard view of all your EffectIO assets? The EffectIO Dashboard shows what is installed, what is licensed, and what has an update available.

The 2.0.17 version stays on this update channel for the subscription year.