Description
Make your WordPress website fully accessible and WCAG-compliant in minutes.
Screen Reader Accessibility adds essential tools such as text-to-speech, high contrast modes, dark mode, dyslexic fonts, enlarged cursor, reading guides, zoom, ARIA fixes, and AI-powered accessibility improvements using ChatGPT.
It helps fix the most common accessibility issues automatically (missing ALT text, incorrect heading order, low contrast, missing labels and ARIA roles), improving compliance and usability for visually impaired users.
The plugin helps visually impaired users navigate your website with ease, meets accessibility regulations (WCAG / ADA), and improves overall user experience for everyone.
Screen Reader Accessibility is ideal for users searching for:
- WordPress accessibility plugin
- WCAG and ADA compliance tools
- Screen reader / text-to-speech solution
- AI accessibility fixes (alt text, headings, ARIA)
- Accessibility plugin for visually impaired visitors
- Dyslexic font and contrast adjustments
- Fix accessibility issues automatically
More than 50 languages are supported through multiple audio engines, allowing your visitors to listen to your content naturally and clearly. The voices of the browser (Web Speech) read the whole text with no limit and are chosen automatically for the language of the page.
🚀 Try Screen Reader Live on WordPress Playground 🚀
Check the PRO version including all features at:
https://test.storejextensions.org/wpscreenreader/
🚀 Download the PRO version with all features: 🚀
Check the product page of the PRO version with all features:
https://storejextensions.org/extensions/screen_reader.html
Why Choose Screen Reader Accessibility?
• Complete accessibility suite with WCAG-compliant tools
• AI-powered repairs for alt text, headings, contrast and more
• Text-to-speech in 50+ languages, with no limit on the text when it uses the voices of the browser
• Advanced toolbar with themes, readability tools and color controls
• Supports all themes, builders and caching plugins
• Lightweight, fast and easy to configure
• Helps sites meet WCAG and ADA accessibility requirements
⚠️FREE vs PRO
FREE VERSION:
- Text-to-speech with no limit on the length of the text using the voices of the browser (Web Speech)
- Audio engines of the services (Responsive Voice and others) reading the first 300 characters of the text
- Basic accessibility toolbar
- Font size controls and up to 3 contrast modes
- Highlight links, stop animations and enlarged cursor buttons
- Outline focus for keyboard navigation
- Toolbar position, templates and minimized toolbar settings
- Essential features only
PRO VERSION (FULL ACCESSIBILITY SUITE):
- AI-powered accessibility fixes (OpenAI or Google Gemini)
- Generate missing alt text
- Fix heading order
- Fix low-contrast text
- Add missing ARIA roles
- Add missing form labels
- Fix focus order
- Dyslexic font transformation
- Dark mode
- Read mode
- Page zoom
- Gray hues
- Reading guide
- Hide images / hide videos
- Custom text & background colors
- Visitor profiles with one click: vision impaired, dyslexia friendly, focus and attention, motor impaired, seizure safe
- Color overlay and reading mask
- Accessibility statement as a link or a file, skip to contents link
- Advanced toolbar themes
- Unlimited text-to-speech with every audio engine across 50+ languages
- High-performance audio engines
- Full WCAG compliance tools
Check the product page of the PRO version here:
https://storejextensions.org/extensions/screen_reader.html
👉 The FREE version is designed for basic accessibility only. The PRO version provides a complete WCAG/ADA compliance toolkit.
🚀 Key Features
🗣️ Text-to-Speech (50+ Languages)
Reads the page, or only the selected text, aloud. The default engine uses the voices of the browser (Web Speech), picks the best voice for the language of the page automatically and lets visitors choose another one from a menu, with no limit on the length of the text. Multiple high-quality audio engines of the services are available too, in the FREE version they read the first 300 characters of the text.
🔍 WCAG & ADA Compliance Tools
Automated improvements plus manual accessibility options.
⚡ AI Accessibility Fixes (OpenAI or Google Gemini, PRO)
Automatically:
– generates missing ALT text
– fixes heading hierarchy
– identifies low-contrast text
– adds missing ARIA roles
– repairs form labels
– improves focus order
🎨 Accessibility Toolbar
Powerful and customizable toolbar with:
– dyslexic font
– contrast modes
– dark mode
– big cursor
– hide images
– reading guide
– font size controls
– zoom controls
– highlight links
– stop animations
– color overlay and reading mask
– one click profiles for vision impaired, dyslexia friendly, focus and attention, motor impaired and seizure safe visitors
💬 Read-on-Hover
Reads blocks of text when hovered with the mouse.
🖼 Accessibility for Images & Videos
Hide visually complex media or load alternates for accessibility.
🧩 Respects Your Theme
Sizes, headings and line heights of your design are not changed until a visitor uses a button, and they are restored on reset.
📚 Saves User Preferences
Stores user accessibility preferences between page loads.
⚙️ Lightweight & Compatible
Works with all themes, builders and caching plugins.
External services
The default text to speech uses the speech synthesis of the browser of the visitor, no data is sent to any server by this plugin.
The optional audio engines of the services (Audio tab of the settings) read the text through the service that you select. When one of them is selected, the text that is read aloud is sent to that service: Responsive Voice (responsivevoice.org, terms: https://responsivevoice.org/terms/ and privacy policy: https://responsivevoice.org/privacy-policy/), Google Translate, iSpeech, Inforobo, TTSMP3 and TextToMP3, through a proxy of this plugin on your own site. The script of Responsive Voice is loaded from the plugin folder or from code.responsivevoice.org (setting “Responsive Voice script loading”).
PRO version only: when the generation of the missing alt text of the images is enabled, the image is sent to the AI provider that you select, OpenAI (openai.com, terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use and privacy policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy) or Google Gemini (ai.google.dev, terms: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms), using your own API key, which is stored in your database and is never sent to the browser.
The plugin shows links to the website of its author, storejextensions.org, in the settings page and in this description. No data is sent by those links until you click them.
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Installation
- Upload and activate the plugin.
- A fixed accessibility toolbar will appear on the frontend.
- Configure additional options in Screen Reader settings, in the admin menu.
- If upgrading to PRO, install the PRO version: the FREE version steps aside and your settings are kept.
For the PRO installer, go to:
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FAQ
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Is Screen Reader Accessibility WCAG compliant?
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Yes. The plugin includes many tools required for WCAG/ADA compliance, such as text-to-speech, contrast modes, font adjustments, ARIA roles, headings fixes and more.
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Does the plugin support text-to-speech in multiple languages?
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Yes. Over 50 languages are supported and PRO users gain access to advanced audio engines.
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Is there a limit on the length of the text that is read aloud?
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With the voices of the browser (Web Speech, the default engine) there is no limit: the whole page or the selected text is read. The audio engines of the services read the first 300 characters of the text in the FREE version, the PRO version reads the full text with every engine.
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Which voices does the default text to speech use?
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The voices installed in the browser or in the device of the visitor, so the languages available depend on their browser and operating system. The plugin picks the best voice available for the language of the page.
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Will Screen Reader Accessibility work with Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg and any theme?
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Yes. It is fully theme-independent and works with any builder.
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What does the AI integration (PRO) do?
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It analyzes your site and automatically fixes accessibility problems such as missing alt text, poor contrast, wrong heading order, and missing labels.
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Absolutely. That’s the main purpose: to improve accessibility and usability for visually impaired visitors.
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Is the plugin lightweight?
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Yes. The core plugin is optimized and loads minimal resources.
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Contributors & Developers
“Screen Reader Accessibility – WCAG, Text-to-Speech & AI Accessibility Fixes” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
3.38 FREE/PRO version
- New Google Gemini provider for the AI generation of the images alt text, selectable together with OpenAI, and updated list of the OpenAI models
- Security: alt text of the images generated by the AI is now requested server side, the API key is never exposed to the browser
- Security: the audio proxies are protected by a signed token and every option is passed to the page with json_encode
- New Web Speech API audio engine with automatic choice of the best available voice, rate and pitch settings and an optional voice menu for the visitors
- FREE version: text to speech with the voices of the browser with no limit on the length of the text, the audio engines of the services read the first 300 characters
- FREE version: highlight links, stop animations and enlarged cursor are available, they respect the reduced motion preference of the visitors
- New accessibility profiles: vision impaired, dyslexia friendly, focus and attention, motor impaired and seizure safe
- New features: highlight links, stop animations, reading mask and color overlay
- New option to preserve the original font sizes, spacing and line heights of the theme
- New option to restore the original font size when the minimized toolbar is closed
- Accessibility statement can be a link or a file
- Volume bar gradient colors are configurable
- Settings page organized in tabs
- Automatic and silent update of the existing installations, nothing to configure
- Scripts and styles are enqueued with the WordPress functions, fixed PHP 8 deprecation notices
- Fixed reading guide duplicated, gray hues button state and the size labels of the toolbar
- Removed the night mode, replaced by the color overlay, and the discontinued Virtual Speaker engine, the installations that used it switch automatically to the voices of the browser
3.37.1 FREE/PRO version
- Update to WordPress 7
3.37 PRO version
- Responsive Voice Integration for Chrome SpeechSynthesis Issue
3.36 PRO version
- New feature for ‘compact’ theme
- New feature for WCAG Accessibility fixes with ChatGPT AI integration: ‘Generate missing images alt text’, ‘Fix headings order’, ‘Fix low contrast text’, ‘Add missing ARIA roles’, ‘Fix Missing Form Labels’, ‘Fix focus order’
- Improvements and bug fix
3.35 PRO version
- New feature for the page zoom
- New feature for the dark mode
3.34 PRO version
- New feature to hide iframes and videos
3.33 PRO version
- Update to the mobile support positionment
- Update to audio engines
- Compatibility and bug fix
3.32 PRO version
- New feature to customize text and background colors through a palette widget
- New feature to choose the preferred gender male/female with responsive voice
- New audio engine
- New option to choose the preloading time of chunks
3.31 PRO version
- Brand new version with the ‘Accessible’ interface and template, now shipped by default
- New accessibility features: read mode, reading guide, hide images
- New controls for font resizing and audio volume
- Update to audio engines API with the addition of new languages
- Addition of aria labels
- Bugs fix and compatibility improvements
3.30 PRO version
Update for compatibility with PHP 8.1
3.29 PRO version
- New feature to read elements by mouse over
- New feature to use a custom icon for the toolbar
3.28 PRO version
- New parameters to limit the min and max font spacing
- New parameter to use the minimized toolbar only on mobile devices
- Added WAI ARIA attributes
- Improved font spacing feature, now increasing also the line height
3.27 PRO version
- New feature to enable font sizing only after that the minimized toolbar is opened
- New feature to store screen reader preferences in the session or permanent storage of the browser
- Update to TTS engine
- Bugs fix
3.26 PRO version
New features for gray hues, font spacing, big cursor, vertical template sidebar and new parameters
3.25 PRO version
Update to the Responsive Voice API with ApiKey support and compatibility updates
3.24 PRO version
Update to the Responsive Voice API with improved performance, reading and compatibility
3.23 PRO version
Improvements for reading of images text and hover mode
3.22 PRO version
New Inforobo audio engine, new parameter for audio reading speed and improvements
3.21 PRO version
Update to audio engines, new options, new parameters, new template, new audio engines
3.20 PRO version
Update to the API for Natural Readers audio engine
3.19 PRO version
Update for WCAG Wave tool validation
3.18 PRO version
Integration update with the free and pro virtual speaker audio engine
3.17 PRO version
Update to the API for virtual speaker audio engine
3.14 PRO version
Change responsive voice endpoint
3.12 PRO version
Play embed button into contents
3.11 PRO version
Update VS API
3.10 PRO version
Update Google Translate API
3.9 PRO version
- Added the independent mobile audio engine option
- Added the accessibility improvements feature
3.8 PRO version
- Added the Dyslexic font transform button
- Added the slide expand/collapse for the toolbar
- Fixed issue with Virtual Speaker audio engine to support PHP fopen disabled
3.7
- Free stable release for WordPress