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Free accessibility widgets: what they do, and what fixes the site

A free widget adds a toolbar to your site and installs with one line of code. It doesn’t change the code underneath, and that code is what keyboard and screen reader users meet. Here is what a free widget is good for, and the free ways to fix the site itself, by hand or with your AI coding agent, without paying a vendor every month.

What a free widget gives you

What it does

  • A toolbar with text size, spacing and contrast settings
  • Often a readable font option and a way to stop animation
  • One line of code or a plugin, installed in minutes

What it doesn’t

  • Change your theme, templates or code
  • Fix a menu, form or checkout that fails with a keyboard: that takes a change in the code
  • Make the site conform to WCAG, the ADA or the EAA, as the widgets’ own pages say

In the widgets’ own words

Four free ways to fix the site itself

  1. Tab through your own site

    Put the mouse away and press Tab from the top of your homepage through to checkout or your contact form. Can you always see where you are, and can you finish?

    The checklist

  2. Run a free checker

    Start with WAVE, a free browser extension: in seconds it marks every error on the page itself. Fix what it flags: contrast, missing labels, images without alt text.

    The free tools

  3. Listen with the screen reader you already have

    VoiceOver comes with every Mac and iPhone, and NVDA is free for Windows. Listen to your menu, a product and your cart.

    The keys for each test

  4. Fix it with your AI coding agent

    The guides are also a free MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code, with no login. Your agent gets the fix, the code and the checks a person still has to do, so the site gets fixed without a monthly vendor.

    Set up the free MCP server

If you already run one

  • Keep it if visitors use it

    The settings help some people. Just don’t count the toolbar as the fix: the barriers are still in the code until someone changes it.

  • Read what it collects

    Like any third-party script, the widget loads from the vendor’s servers on every page view, so the vendor receives each visit. Its privacy policy says what it records about your visitors and your pages.

  • A letter arrived anyway?

    Sites with a widget get demand letters too. Each claim needs checking by hand, and the fixes go in the code.

    After a letter, with a widget installed

Not sure where to start?

Starting-point review

$495

Save $252: $747 if you book each part separately

Fixed price (USD). Results within 5 business days.

You don’t need to define a scope. I pick what to test, and the full price counts toward a full audit if you book one afterwards.

Start with a review

What you get

  • Your homepage and two more key templates, chosen with you
  • The one task your business depends on, such as checkout, booking, or contact
  • A ranked list of the barriers to fix first, with the reason for each
  • An estimate of the full job, and a recommended next step

This is a first look, not a conformance claim. It tells you where you stand and what to do next.