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Getting to Know Your Accessibility Widget: A Feature-by-Feature Guide

"Learn how each user-triggered enhancement can help make your content more accessible to everyone."

The UserWay Pro Widget includes a range of user-triggered accessibility features that allow visitors to personalize their browsing experience.

These tools help improve readability, navigation, visual accessibility, and content comprehension across websites, intranets, and web applications.

The following accessibility features are available in supported UserWay Pro Widget plans.

Available Accessibility Features

Feature

Description

Screen Reader

Provides auditory feedback by reading page content aloud, including text, descriptions, and navigational elements.

Contrast+

• Invert – Reverses color schemes for high contrast.
• Dark – Applies a dark mode to reduce glare and improve readability in low-light environments.
• Light – Uses a lighter color scheme for better visibility in bright environments.

Smart Contrast

Automatically adjusts color contrast based on page content and background colors to improve readability and visual comfort according to WCAG guidelines.

Highlight Links

Visually emphasizes hyperlinks to help users identify clickable elements more easily.

Bigger Text

Increases text size with up to four levels of magnification to improve readability.

Text Spacing

• Light – Minimal spacing for a more compact view.
• Moderate – Balanced spacing for general readability.
• Heavy – Expanded spacing for users who prefer greater separation between text elements.

Pause Animation

Stops supported animations to reduce distractions and improve accessibility for users with motion sensitivity.
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Supported content includes:
• CSS animations
• GIF animations
• Embedded video players such as YouTube and Vimeo

Hide Images

Removes images from view, allowing users to focus on text content.

Dyslexia Friendly

Provides specialized font options designed by UserWay to improve readability and reduce character confusion for users with dyslexia.

Cursor Tools

• Big Cursor – Enlarges the cursor for better visibility.
• Reading Mask – Applies a semi-transparent mask around the cursor to improve focus while reading.
• Reading Guide – Displays a horizontal guide to help users follow lines of text more easily.

Tool Tips

Displays image alt text when users hover over or focus on an image, helping explain the image's content and purpose.

Page Structure

Provides an overview of page headings and sections to help users understand and navigate page organization.

Line Height

Adjusts the vertical spacing between lines of text to improve reading comfort.

Text Align

• Left Align – Aligns text to the left.
• Center Align – Centers text on the page.
• Right Align – Aligns text to the right.
• Justify – Distributes text evenly across each line.

Saturation

• Low Saturation – Reduces color intensity.
• High Saturation – Increases color intensity.
• Desaturate – Converts page colors to grayscale for a simplified viewing experience.
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Firefox is not supported due to browser limitations.

Dictionary

• Click a word to view its definition and additional context.
• Press Ctrl + M for quick access to definitions.

Accessibility Profiles

UserWay also offers Accessibility Profiles, which apply multiple accessibility settings at once to support specific accessibility needs and preferences.


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