A website accessibility tool that lets visitors read your site their way.
AQ Website Accessibility Assist puts a small button on every page of your site that opens a menu of display and reading controls: bigger text, easier fonts, higher contrast, no animations, or the page read aloud. It's built to improve usability and support your ongoing accessibility efforts, not to promise compliance.
What visitors get when they open the menu.
Everything below is in the menu today, on every page of your site.
Why most accessibility widgets let owners down.
The widget isn't the problem. The promise usually is. A button can help people use a page, but it can't stand in for a site that was built and maintained with accessibility in mind.
Sold as a compliance fix
Plenty of widget vendors promise ADA or WCAG compliance from one line of code. In 2025 the FTC ordered one of the best known, accessiBe, to pay $1 million over claims that its AI widget could make any website WCAG compliant.
A clean scan isn't the whole story
Automated checkers catch a lot, but not everything. The Justice Department's web accessibility guidance recommends pairing them with a manual check of the site.
The real issues stay in the site
Missing image descriptions, low-contrast buttons and unlabeled form fields live in the page itself. A menu of visitor controls can't rewrite them. Someone has to fix them.
Bolted on, then forgotten
A generic widget pasted into a site ignores the design. It sits on top of the chat button or the call bar, clashes with the brand colors, and nobody looks at it again.
What Accessibility Assist includes.
Three parts that work together: the tool your visitors use, checks that find issues in your pages, and people who fix the important ones.
The visitor menu
Text size, line and letter spacing, readable and dyslexia-friendly fonts, contrast and color modes, reading guide and mask, big cursor, stop animations, mute sounds, read aloud and voice commands.
Fits your brand
We set the button's size, shape, colors and corner to match your site. It keeps clear of your chat button and call bar on phones, and warns us if the icon colors would be hard to see.
Page checks
We run the open-source axe-core checker on your pages from the site dashboard. Each issue it finds is listed and outlined on the page, so it's clear what needs attention.
Help fixing what we find
A checker flags issues; people fix them. We review what it finds and work through the important ones, like missing image descriptions, weak contrast and unlabeled fields, as part of your ongoing website services.
A plain-English accessibility page
Your site gets an accessibility page explaining the tool and its limits, linked from the footer and from a short notice at the top of the menu. Both say clearly that the tool does not guarantee compliance.
Light on page speed
Only the button loads with the page. The menu's code loads when a visitor first opens it, and the fonts are hosted on your own site, not pulled from another company's servers.
How we add it to your site.
Turn it on and style it
We switch the button on, set its placement and colors to suit your design, and check it on desktop, tablet and phone.
Check your key pages
We run the page checker on the pages that matter most, usually your homepage, service pages and contact page.
Fix what matters first
Forms, buttons, headings and image descriptions come first, because those are what stop someone from getting in touch.
Check again as pages change
New pages and edits can bring new issues. We check updated pages again as part of looking after your site.
Why we call it an assist, not a compliance tool.
Most small business owners hear about website accessibility the same way: a letter, a news story about a lawsuit, or a vendor promising that one line of code makes the problem go away. That last promise is the one to be careful with. In 2025 the Federal Trade Commission finalized a $1 million order against accessiBe over claims that its AI widget could make any website compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
We named ours AQ Website Accessibility Assist because that's what it does: it assists. The menu gives visitors real control over how your pages look and read, which matters to someone with low vision, dyslexia, a migraine, or a hand tremor. But the things that most often block people, such as an image with no description, a button with too little contrast, or a form field with no label, are problems in the page itself. Fixing them takes a person.
What the Justice Department recommends
The Department of Justice's guidance on web accessibility and the ADA (March 2022) says automated checkers can help, but it recommends pairing them with a manual check of your website. That is the model we follow: the tool for your visitors, the checker to find issues, and people to review and fix them.
Where it fits with the rest of your site
Accessibility work goes further when the site is built well to begin with. Clear headings, readable type and strong contrast are part of how we approach web design and AI websites. You can also see the accessibility page we add to client sites, which is the same one this site uses.
Common questions about Accessibility Assist.
Will this make my website meet the ADA?
No tool can promise that, and we won't. No automated accessibility tool, widget or service can guarantee that a website meets every requirement of the ADA, WCAG or other accessibility laws. Accessibility Assist helps visitors use your site and helps us find and fix issues. It works alongside good design and ongoing upkeep, not in place of them.
What can visitors change?
Text size, line height and letter spacing, a more readable font or a dyslexia-friendly font, dark, light and high contrast modes, color saturation, text alignment, a big cursor, a reading guide or reading mask, link and heading highlights, and a simplified read mode. They can also stop animations, mute sounds, hide images, have the page read aloud, or scroll with voice commands.
Does it slow down my site?
Very little. The page loads only the small button. The full menu loads the first time a visitor opens it, and its fonts are hosted on your own site, so nothing is pulled from another company's servers.
Do you still fix problems in the site itself?
Yes, and that's the part that matters most. We run the page checker, review what it finds, and fix the important issues, such as missing image descriptions, low contrast and unlabeled form fields, as part of your ongoing website services.
What does the accessibility page say?
It explains what the tool does and includes an accessibility disclaimer: that no automated tool can guarantee a site meets the ADA or WCAG, and that the tool isn't legal advice or a certificate of compliance. You can read the version on our own site at /accessibility/.
Which websites can use it?
It's built into the platform our WordPress sites run on, so it's ready on sites we build and look after. If your site lives somewhere else, ask us and we'll tell you honestly whether it's a fit.
Pair Accessibility Assist with...
Web Design
Readable type, clear headings and strong contrast built in from the start, so there's less to fix later.
Explore Web Design → ServiceAI Websites
Our done-for-you website engagement. Accessibility Assist can be switched on as part of the build.
Explore AI Websites → MeasureReporting Dashboard
See how visitors use your site, with calls, forms and rankings in one login.
Explore Reporting →Make your site easier to use for every visitor.
Tell us about your website. We'll show you the menu, run the page checker on your homepage, and tell you plainly what the tool can and can't do for you.