Accessibility Guide
What AccessPath is
AccessPath is a floating control panel that a site owner installs once. It gives every visitor real, immediate control over how the page looks and behaves for them — text size, contrast, motion, spacing, fonts, and more — without the site owner having to build any of those controls themselves.
Start with a profile, or build your own
Six preset profiles bundle the settings people with a specific need tend to reach for, so you don't have to configure anything by hand:
| Profile | Turns on |
|---|---|
| Low Vision | Larger text, pause animations, higher saturation |
| Dyslexia | Dyslexia-friendly font, wider letter/word spacing, taller line height |
| Seizure Safe | Pause animations, reduced saturation |
| Motor Impaired | Larger text, pause animations |
| Color Blind | Desaturated colors, higher contrast, wider spacing |
| ADHD | Pause animations, wider spacing |
Every setting a profile turns on can also be adjusted individually — profiles are a starting point, not a limit.
13+ individual tools
Beyond the profiles, every control is available on its own: text size, contrast, saturation, spacing, line height, dyslexia font, pause animations, invert colors, highlight links, hide images, big cursor, text align, reading guide, page structure navigation, read aloud, and dictionary lookups. Each one is a real change applied directly to the page — not a static preview.
Everything stays on your device
Preferences are saved to the browser's own storage, on the visitor's device. Nothing is sent to a server, and nothing is tracked. See the Privacy Policy for the full detail.
An honest note on compliance
AccessPath is a user-controlled accessibility layer, not automated remediation. It helps visitors adapt a page to their own needs, but it doesn't replace good code, semantic HTML, proper heading structure, alt text, keyboard navigability, or color contrast that meets WCAG on its own. A site that installs AccessPath should still do that underlying accessibility work — AccessPath is a layer on top of it, not a substitute for it. We deliberately don't make automatic WCAG/ADA compliance claims, and we'd encourage you to be skeptical of any product that does.
Keyboard and screen reader support
The panel itself opens as a dialog with a focus trap — Tab cycles through its controls, Escape closes it and returns focus to wherever you were. Section headers are real buttons with aria-expanded, so collapsed/expanded state is exposed to assistive technology, not just shown visually.
For developers
AccessPath ships as a zero-build script tag, a React component/hook, or an Angular component, all backed by the same framework-agnostic core. It's free, open source, and self-hosted — see the MIT License and the "Install & Customize" section on the home page to get started.