Welcoma Accessibility – WCAG, ADA & EAA Accessibility Widget

Reading assistance

✔ Reading Line ✔ Reading Mask (Pro) ✔ Cognitive Load ✔ Text to Speech ✔ Voice and Reading Controls (Pro) ✔ Dictionary

Navigation and interaction

✔ Keyboard Navigation ✔ On-Screen Keyboard (Pro) ✔ Focus Highlight ✔ Skip to Content ✔ Highlight Links ✔ Highlight Titles ✔ Highlight Content ✔ Highlight Hover (Pro) ✔ Interactive Highlight (Pro) ✔ Stop Animations ✔ Page Structure ✔ Tooltips (Pro)

Audio, language and reset

✔ Mute Sounds ✔ Translate This Page (Pro) ✔ One-click reset

Widget customization

Customize the widget appearance from the WordPress dashboard to match your website. Available settings include:

➜ Widget position on the left or right side of the screen ➜ Horizontal and vertical offsets ➜ Launcher icon size ➜ Built-in launcher icons ➜ Launcher icon and background colors ➜ Header background, text and icon colors ➜ Menu background and text colors ➜ Module button colors for default and active states ➜ Reset button colors ➜ Footer background and text colors

Accessibility Statement generator

Create and publish an accessibility statement from the WordPress dashboard. The form includes fields aligned with common disclosure requirements, including details relevant to Germany’s BFSG Section 14 / Annex 3.

An accessibility statement should accurately reflect your website, testing process and remediation work. Review and update the generated content before publishing it.

Multilingual widget

The accessibility widget interface can display in 26 languages. Welcoma can detect the WordPress site language and use it as the initial widget language, while visitors can select another supported language when available.

The Core plugin ships its widget interface translations locally and does not send customized widget text to an external translation service. Optional machine translation features, when enabled by an administrator, are provided only by the separately distributed Welcoma Pro add-on.

The separately distributed Welcoma Pro add-on can add a Translate This Page tool; it documents that service in its own readme.

Built for performance and privacy

• Plain, dependency-free JavaScript on the front end
• No jQuery or external UI framework required by the widget
• Visitor preferences stored in localStorage in the visitor’s browser
• No visitor accessibility preferences stored on your server
• No visitor tracking or advertising cookies added by the widget
• Only enabled functionality and required assets are loaded

Accessibility standards and legal notice

Welcoma provides tools inspired by and designed to support work toward:

• WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.2
• ADA
• EAA
• BFSG
• Section 508

Important: installing an accessibility widget alone does not make a website fully accessible or guarantee legal compliance with WCAG, ADA, EAA, BFSG, Section 508 or any other standard or law. Accessibility also depends on your website’s content, HTML structure, keyboard behavior, forms, color choices, media alternatives and overall implementation. Welcoma is a visitor usability aid and is not a substitute for accessible design, development, testing and remediation.

Free and Pro

The Free plugin includes the core accessibility widget, a broad selection of accessibility tools and profiles, widget styling controls, responsive behavior, multilingual interface support and the Accessibility Statement generator.

Welcoma Pro is a separately distributed add-on that supplies additional tools and profiles, custom savable profiles, custom module labels, a custom accessibility title, custom launcher images, an optional website-scanning connection, optional machine translation, licensed updates and priority support.

More tools are available in the separate Welcoma Pro add-on → Explore Welcoma Pro

Suitable for many types of websites

Welcoma can be used on business websites, online stores, public-sector websites, educational platforms, healthcare websites, non-profit websites, agency sites, blogs, news portals and corporate websites.

🇩🇪 Made in Germany

Welcoma Accessibility Widget is developed and maintained by webAufstieg GmbH in Germany with a focus on privacy, quality and useful accessibility features.

Helpful links

• Welcoma website
• Welcoma website – German
• Integrations
• Website Accessibility Scan
• Pricing and Pro plans
• Support and contact
• Blog
• Accessibility
• Accessibility Statement

External services

The Core plugin uses external services only for the features listed below, and only when a visitor uses them. The separately distributed Welcoma Pro add-on documents its own services in its own readme.

Welcoma Dictionary service

Service provider: Welcoma / webAufstieg GmbH

The Dictionary tool is off by default. It only works when the site administrator enables it and a visitor switches it on in the widget. When that visitor then selects a single word on the page, that word is sent to https://api.welcoma.app/api/welcoma-dictionary so a definition can be returned. No other page content and no cookies are sent. As with any web request, the service can see the visitor’s IP address. No request is made unless the visitor performs this action.

Terms and privacy:

• https://welcoma.app/terms-and-conditions/
• https://welcoma.app/privacy-policy/

The Accessibility Statement generator runs on your WordPress installation. Visitor accessibility preferences are stored locally in the visitor’s browser through localStorage.

Footer credit link

The widget footer shows a “Web Accessibility by Welcoma” credit. The word “Welcoma” links to https://welcoma.app/ and opens in a new tab. No data is sent when the link is displayed; a request is made only if a visitor clicks it. The credit text is stored locally in the welcoma_footer_brand_text option. Sites with a connected paid Welcoma Pro licence can hide it.