Understanding the SimplifyAccess Widget
The SimplifyAccess widget is the visitorfacing part of the SimplifyAccess platform.
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Understanding Settings, Profiles, Tools, and Additional Capabilities
The Widget Settings page separates features into four areas:
Opening and Navigating Widget Settings
Widget configuration is managed separately for every controller.
How Widget Changes Reach Your Website
The installed embed script connects the website to a specific SimplifyAccess controller.
Using and Personalizing the Widget
The SimplifyAccess widget gives visitors choices for reading and using the current website. A visitor can adjust text, change visual presentation, or open a tool without changing the website for everyone else.
Choosing an Accessibility Profile
An accessibility profile applies several related adjustments in one action. It can be a useful starting point when a visitor wants more than one change but does not want to configure every setting separately.
Adjusting Text for Comfortable Reading
Text can be difficult to follow because it is small, tightly spaced, or displayed in an uncomfortable typeface. The widget provides four separate adjustments so visitors can change the aspects that matter to them.
Adjusting Contrast and Colour
Contrast, brightness, and saturation change different aspects of the page. Trying them individually helps visitors find a comfortable presentation without applying an entire profile.
Using Smart Contrast
Smart Contrast aims to make text easier to distinguish from its background. It checks supported page text and adjusts text colour where the calculated contrast is too low.
Using Colour Filters
The Color Deficiency profile provides colourfilter sliders. These controls change the page's colour appearance and let visitors compare different presentations.
Reducing Distractions and Motion
Images and movement can make it harder to stay with a passage of text. Remove Images and Disable Animations offer two ways to reduce visual distractions while keeping the original page available.
Using the Magnifying Glass
Magnifying Glass displays an enlarged version of the word under the pointer. It can help visitors inspect a difficult word without enlarging all text on the page.
Listening to Content with Read Aloud
Read Aloud converts supported page content into speech. Visitors can listen instead of reading visually, or follow the text while it is spoken.
Using Easy Language
Easy Language lets visitors read prepared simplified wording within the existing page. It is useful when the wording of a passage is difficult, rather than only its font or layout.
Reading the Plain Language Version
Plain Language presents a prepared alternative version of page content in a separate reading panel. It can help visitors who prefer shorter, more direct explanations or are less familiar with the language used on the original page.
Reading in Simplified Page View
Simplified Page collects supported page content into a separate reading view. It reduces the surrounding layout so a visitor can concentrate on the information.
Looking Up Words with the Dictionary
The Dictionary provides definitions for selected words in page text. It can help when one unfamiliar term interrupts reading and you do not need an alternative version of the whole passage.
Making Navigation and Actions Easier to Notice
Some visitors benefit from stronger visual indicators, while others prefer an audible response to an action. Highlight Links, Big Cursor, and Acoustic Signals support these different preferences.
Using Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts provide quick access to selected widget actions. They can reduce the need to reopen the panel when starting or stopping a tool.
Navigating with Voice Commands
Speech Commands lets visitors use recognized spoken phrases to perform supported actions on the website. It can reduce repeated pointer use for actions such as scrolling or opening a link.
Finding Content with Page Structure
Page Structure provides an overview of supported visible headings and paragraphs on the current page. Selecting an entry helps locate the corresponding content on the website.
Changing Language and Accessing Translated Content
The language used by widget buttons and the language of the website content are separate matters. Changing one does not guarantee that every part of the other will change.
Using Video Captions
The widget can display prepared caption text while a supported video plays. This gives visitors an additional way to follow spoken information, including when they prefer to keep the sound low or off.
Why a Widget Feature Is Missing or Has No Content
The widget is configured for each website. A feature can be unavailable because it is disabled, needs prepared content, depends on the browser, or is not offered on the current device.
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