內容簡介
Widewalk 是一款無障礙工具列外掛，提供訪客自訂網站顯示設定的功能，協助提升可讀性與使用體驗。使用者可調整字體大小、行距、字母間距等，並在不影響其他訪客的情況下，根據個人需求優化瀏覽。
【主要功能】
• 調整字體大小（110%、125%、150%）
• 自訂行距（1.5x、1.75x、2x）
• 調整字母與單詞間距
• 顏色反轉與高對比選項
• 友善於閱讀障礙者的字型
• 隱藏圖片與暫停動畫
外掛標籤
開發者團隊
② 後台搜尋「Widewalk – Accessibility Toolbar」→ 直接安裝（推薦）
原文外掛簡介
Widewalk puts a small button in the corner of your site. A visitor presses it and
a panel opens with the settings they need in order to read you: bigger text, more
air between the lines, letters further apart, links they can actually pick out of
a paragraph, a calmer palette, a pointer large enough to find. Whatever they
choose is kept in their own browser. Nobody else’s view of your site moves an inch.
You switch it on once. It works with the theme you already have, on the front end
you already have, and it asks nothing of your visitors in return.
What you decide
All twelve controls have their own switch, so you offer the ones that suit your
site and leave the rest off. You choose which bottom corner the button sits in.
You publish your accessibility statement from the same screen, in a long or a
short version. That is the whole settings page, and there is nothing to
configure before it works.
The name comes from pavements built wide enough for everyone at the same time:
the wheelchair, the pushchair, the delivery trolley, and the people walking
alongside them. Widen the path rather than build a second one round the back.
What a visitor can change
Each control steps through its settings as it is pressed, and the button says
which step it is on. “Line Height (1.75x)” or “Low Saturation” tells a visitor
where they are without making them guess.
Bigger Text, at 110%, 125% and 150%
Line Height, at 1.5x, 1.75x and 2x
Letter and word spacing, from light through to heavy
Invert Colors, then High Contrast
Saturation: low, high, or monochrome
Highlight Links, then Boxed Links
Dyslexia Friendly type
Big Cursor, then Bigger Cursor
Pause animations
Hide images
Text alignment: left, centre, right
Tooltips, which read out the descriptions a screen reader gets and a mouse user never sees
Twelve of them, and each has its own switch on the settings screen. Offer the
ones that suit your site and leave the rest off.
This is not an overlay
Worth saying plainly, because that word has earned its reputation. Widewalk does
not scan your pages, does not rewrite them for everybody, and makes no claim
about your legal compliance. Those three promises are what the overlay industry
sells, and no plugin is in a position to keep them.
Accessibility lives in your own markup. Your headings, your alt text, your colour
contrast, your link text, your forms. Five minutes with any plugin will not
change what is underneath.
What Widewalk does is smaller and it is true. It hands a visitor the settings
they would otherwise have to fight your stylesheet for, which is real help to
somebody with low vision, or dyslexia, or a migraine coming on, or a phone held
up in bright sunlight. Do the underlying work as well. This sits beside it.
It writes your accessibility statement
Any site that offers a panel like this ought to say what it is aiming for and how
to report a problem. Most plugins tell you to go away and write one. Widewalk
writes it for you, out of what you have actually switched on, and shows you the
whole thing before a word of it is published.
Choose the complete version, which follows the structure the W3C recommends, or
the short one if your site is small. You supply two things: an address where
somebody can report a barrier, and the number of working days you will take to
reply. Promise something you can keep.
Publish it and you have an ordinary WordPress page, yours to edit like any other.
Widewalk will not overwrite it later. The wording claims partial conformance and
nothing beyond that, because a plugin cannot certify a site it has never seen.
Built to survive your theme
The panel renders inside a shadow root. Your stylesheet cannot reach into it, and
its stylesheet cannot leak out into your pages. It has been measured against a
theme written for the sole purpose of breaking it: global button rules marked
!important, a forced box model, oversized icons, a page claiming the highest
stacking order there is. It came through without a mark.
Block themes, classic themes, page builders. It mounts on wp_footer, which
every theme fires.
Works past WordPress, too
Plenty of sites keep WordPress for the admin and build their public pages in
plain PHP, in React, or as static files. Nothing on those pages runs a WordPress
footer, so the panel never arrives. Add one line to your own instead:
Same panel, same controls, the settings you already chose. Nothing else to set up.
Light, and quiet about it
About 7 KB gzipped covers everything a visitor downloads. One stylesheet, one small script, no framework, no jQuery.
Switch the panel off and nothing at all is added to your pages.
No outbound requests anywhere in the plugin. No account, no API key, no third-party service, no fonts pulled from somebody else’s server.
No tracking and no cookies. Preferences sit in local storage on the visitor’s own device, under a single key.
Made to the standard it talks about
Every control works from the keyboard alone, with a focus outline you can see.
The panel is a labelled dialog. Focus stays inside it while it is open, and returns where it came from when it closes.
Changes are announced to screen readers as they happen.
Motion stops when a visitor’s device has asked for less of it.
Text and background inside the panel meet WCAG 2.2 AA contrast.
Who installs it
Sites whose readers are not all twenty-five with good eyes and a large monitor.
Charities, galleries, schools, clinics, councils, artists, shops, small
newsrooms. Anywhere that would rather be read than admired.
