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UserWay’s Widget features
Pursuing web accessibility is crucial in today’s digital landscape. UserWay’s suite of Widget
features enhances website inclusivity for all users, regardless of their abilities. This fact sheet
provides an overview of the Widget’s personalization features designed to improve text
readability, visual accessibility, navigation,along with additional benefits. Explore how these
features contribute to a more accessible and user-friendly online environment for everyone.
Text readability
Navigating the web can be challenging for individuals with various disabilities, such as Dyslexia,
ADHD, or visual impairments. UserWay's text readability features are designed to enhance the
accessibility of website content, making it easier for users to read and comprehend text with
customized adjustments.
Increase text size
Cycles on-screen texts through four different levels of text-size increases. Makes every part of
your site easier to read with the click of a button.
Text spacing
Modify text and line spacing for improved readability for dyslexic and visually impaired users.
Dyslexia friendly font
Dyslexia impacts up to 10% of the world. UserWay's Dyslexia Friendly Font (UDF) is a custom font
face that enhances readability for those with reading disorders, providing an easier, more fluid
experience for site visitors.
Accessible fonts
Converts stylized fonts into accessible fonts and font weights — essential for visually impaired and
dyslexic users who may have difficulty with nonstandard fonts.
Legible font
Makes artistic, complex, and design-driven fonts readable for all end users by improving perceivability.
Reading mask
Shows only a user-selected area of text, and obscures all other web page content to reduce on-page
distractions and focus reader attention.
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Visual accessibility
For users with visual impairments, proper contrast and cursor visibility are vital for effective web
navigation. UserWay’s visual accessibility features address these needs by providing tools to
adjust contrast, highlight important elements, and enhance overall visual clarity.
Large cursor
Increase the standard cursor size by 400% to ensure the pointer remains visible, enabling faster
and more accessible navigation.
Highlight links
Emphasize links, buttons, and other interactive elements in clear, high-contrast colors that are
easy to identify. Highlights clickable items for easier site usability, navigation, and overall
accessibility.
Light contrast
One-click remediation for inaccessible and non-compliant low-contrast elements. Boost the
contrast of all site elements with a high-contrast light color theme.
Dark contrast
One-click remediation for inaccessible and non-compliant low-contrast elements, texts, buttons,
and form fields. Use a high-contrast dark color theme to increase the contrast of all site elements.
Invert colors
Enable full color inversion across all site elements to enhance perceived color depth, significantly
improving text readability and reducing eye strain.
Color desaturation
Desaturates all colors on the page — a vital accessibility function that helps users with
deuteranopia tritanopia.
Smart contrast
Smart Contrast is our proprietary system that detects and automatically adjusts contrast violations
via user-initiated remediation, enabling design and product teams to maintain WCAG compliance
with greater flexibility.
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Navigation and interaction
Navigating a website should be seamless for all users, including those who rely on keyboard
controls. UserWay’s navigation and interaction features streamline web browsing by improving
keyboard focus, simplifying page structure, and improving the accessibility of interactive elements.
Keyboard Navigation
Users navigating with a keyboard often rely on a focus outline to know where they are on the
page. UserWay’s keyboard navigation optimizes a website outline, enabling users to use only a
keyboard to flow through web pages.
Page structure
Quickly reveals page headings, landmarks, and links in an organized, intuitive, and easily
navigable way.
Element focus
Provides a clear visual indicator and automatically remediates missing indicators for keyboard
navigators.
Skip navigation
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines state that users should be able to skip past repetitive
content. UserWay’s Skip Navigation Link lets users bypass repeated content blocks like a
navigation menu on each webpage.
Interactive elements
Automatically remediates and allows all non-interactive elements to be viewable and accessible to
mouse or keyboard users.
External links targets
Prevents opening new tabs or windows without warning, which can disorient blind users.
Autoplay videos
This feature gives users play/pause control over videos on the page. It lets site visitors choose
when content plays to prevent distractions and reduce any triggers that may cause seizures or
epileptic events.
Video captioning
Offer captioning for video content, crucial for users who are deaf, have hearing loss, or prefer
captions over audio. This feature addresses the needs of a majority of consumers, as 92% watch
videos with audio off.
Pause animations
Pauses content that moves or auto-updates that is considered an accessibility barrier. Stops
animations, blinking and flashing content that distracts and may trigger seizures.
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Assistive technology support
Assistive technologies play a vital role in web accessibility for users with disabilities. UserWay's
assistive technology support features include screen readers, automated image descriptions, and
form validation so that all users can access and interact with website content effectively.
Screen reader
UserWay's industry-leading screen reader speaks aloud all page contents without installing an
external screen reader.
Image alts
AI-powered image recognition automatically generates high-accuracy image alts and descriptions
of non-text content for users relying on screen readers. Site admins can approve or modify alt text
as needed.
Form labels
Creates essential form field labels, 'required/mandatory' attributes, and more to help screen
readers communicate intention.
Dictionary
UserWay’s dictionary allows access to dictionary sources without leaving the website. Users can
now review idioms, acronyms, and complex words. This is essential for those with cognitive
disabilities and non-native English speakers.
Form validation
Notifies users of any errors encountered during form submissions. Unvalidated forms can make
completing a purchase, submitting a request, and other actions impossible.
Missing titles
Automatically generates essential element titles for clarity when they are missing or unclear.
Enhances understanding of page structure and components for users and assistive technology.
Site language
Automatically remediates missing language attributes on each page, essential for users who rely
on assistive technology like screen readers, braille translators, and voice recognition software.
PDF remediation
Updates PDFs linked to or embedded in your site to ensure they’re accessible to users relying on
screen readers and other assistive tech.
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Content and structure
An organized and clear content structure is essential for accessibility. UserWay’s content and
structure features help to automatically correct issues such as broken links, missing titles, and
improper headings, facilitating a logical and navigable web experience.
Headings
Outlines are essential for keyboard navigation, accessible hotkeys, and screen readers. Our AI will
automatically restructure your headings into a sequential and easily navigable order without
impacting design or SEO.
Marquee
Corrects the code for scrolling text when the marquee element was used to create the effect.
IFrames title
Adds a label to iFrame elements so users can determine which frame to enter and explore in
detail.
Broken links
Automatically remediate any broken links that don't point to live sources. Broken links diminish the
user experience for site visitors, especially blind users and users with low vision, mobility
impairment, or cognitive disabilities.
Ambiguous links
Automatically improves unclear link descriptions like “Click Here” and “Learn More.” These
ambiguous descriptions are a barrier for screen reader users who can’t see websites.
Content moderation
Searches for, alerts, and suggests alternatives for potentially harmful or inappropriate website
content.
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Customization and personalization
Personalizing accessibility settings can significantly improve user experience. UserWay’s
customization and personalization features allow users to adjust settings such as text alignment
and language translation, catering to individual accessibility needs.
Reset all
Mix and match any combination of accessibility options to personalize each user's accessibility
needs, which can be saved for future site visits.
Live site translation
Instantly translate your site into 40+ languages to increase accessibility for non-native speakers,
people with language acquisition difficulties, and learning disabilities.
Text align
Aligns website text blocks left, right, or center to ensure a more personalized, accessible reading
experience.
Additional features
UserWay provides a range of additional features designed to enhance usability and accessibility.
These include tooltips, reading guides, and accessible pricing options to further support diverse
user needs.
Tooltips
A simple mouse hover shows alternative text and aria labels for on-screen elements.
Reading guide
Converts cursors into a high-contrast horizontal reading guide, reducing eye strain for visually
impaired users.
Line height
Cycles text through 4 different size increase levels, making all of your site instantly more readable.
Modify text and line spacing with 3 degrees of adjustments for improved readability for dyslexic
and visually impaired users.
Accessible pricing
Works to make prices on your site are fully accessible to assistive technologies, which is critical for
e-commerce stores.