Accessibility widget

Accessibility controls, where your compliance already lives.

Privacy and accessibility are the same job: respecting the person on the other side of the screen. UserGuard puts visitor controls for readability, contrast, and motion on the script you already ship.

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Said plainly

What a widget can do — and what it cannot.

The overlay market spent years promising that one script makes a site ADA compliant. It does not, and the FTC’s 2025 order against an overlay vendor over exactly those claims made the point official. No widget, ours included, makes your site ADA compliant.

What it honestly is

Presentation control for the visitors who want it, and evidence that you offer it. A visitor opens the panel, changes a setting, and the page changes immediately — without an account, and without a round trip to anyone’s server.

Every control changes the page, or it is not offered. No placebo toggles.
Choices persist on the visitor’s own device and never reach a server — which is also why the panel never asks for consent.
The panel holds itself to WCAG 2.1 AA: keyboard operable, a real focus trap, a focus ring that survives, luminance-checked labels.

What it is not

An overlay does not make a site WCAG-conformant, and UserGuard does not claim that it does — not in the product, not on this page. Conformance comes from remediation, and remediation lives in your markup: the structure, labels, and contrast of the pages you publish.

A panel layered on top cannot fix what the markup gets wrong.
Treat the widget as a supplement to conformance work, never a substitute for it.
Which obligations apply to you is a question for counsel, not a settings page.

Per-site enablement — the widget is a toggle on each site, included on every tier. Switch it on and the script you already installed starts serving the panel; switch it off and the panel is gone. Nothing new to deploy, and the configuration stays yours. One configuration is refused: every control switched off, because a panel that offers nothing is decoration.

Accessibility standards

What visitors get

Practical controls, not a badge.

The widget gives visitors immediate, useful adjustments (larger text, higher contrast, reduced motion, a readable font) in a panel that stays out of the way. It ships per site, when you decide a site is ready, and its status shows up in the same workspace as your cookie compliance.

Text size controls Contrast support Reduced motion options Readable font controls Per-site enablement

Readability

Text sizing, readable font options, and comfort controls for visitors who need them, which is more visitors than you think.

Visual support

Contrast and motion preferences in a focused panel that never overwhelms the page it serves.

Assistive browsing

Keyboard- and pointer-friendly interaction patterns, treated as a feature rather than an afterthought.

Honest answers

Accessibility widget FAQ

Does an accessibility widget make my site ADA compliant?

No widget alone makes a site ADA compliant, and UserGuard does not claim to. Most WCAG failures live in a site’s own code and content. The widget gives visitors practical controls: larger text, higher contrast, reduced motion, a readable font — as one layer of a broader accessibility program benchmarked against WCAG 2.1 AA, with per-site status tracked beside your cookie compliance.

Is the consent banner itself accessible?

It’s designed to be: keyboard operable, screen-reader compatible, WCAG 2.1 AA contrast. The banner is often the first interactive element an assistive-technology user meets, and consent a visitor can’t actually give or refuse isn’t valid consent. That matters under the ADA, under Europe’s European Accessibility Act (in force since June 2025, benchmarked by EN 301 549), and under GDPR itself.

Is the accessibility widget an extra cost?

No. It is included with every paid site as a per-site toggle. Enable it site by site whenever a site is ready. Same script, same account, same invoice as your cookie compliance.

What controls do visitors actually get?

Text size up to 140%, a high-contrast mode, reduced motion, and a readable-font option, in a small panel that stays out of the way and remembers each visitor’s preferences.

What the widget does

Practical controls, shipped per site.

Text size, contrast, motion, and readable-font controls
A focused panel that stays out of the visitor’s way
Enabled per site, whenever a site is ready
Widget status visible in your compliance workspace

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