ExtenderX – Accessibility Toolbar, Dark Mode & Site Tools

The core tools are free: an Accessibility Toolbar with 11 visitor display controls (text size, readable font, left-aligned text, high contrast, inverted colors, grayscale, light background, underlined links, highlighted headings, hidden images, paused motion), four quick profiles (Low vision, Dyslexia, Focus, Seizure safe), an Alt+A keyboard shortcut, remembered preferences, a Skip to Content link, and Enhanced Focus Outlines. Pro adds seven more visitor tools, toolbar branding, an Accessibility Statement generator, and an Alt Text Audit.

No — and be careful with any plugin that claims otherwise. ExtenderX gives visitors control over how your site is displayed and gives you two tools for finding problems in your own content. Compliance depends on your content, your markup, your theme, and your own testing with real assistive technology. Treat these tools as one part of the work, not a substitute for it.

Not in the usual sense. Overlay services load a script from their own servers, try to rewrite your page automatically, and often promise compliance. ExtenderX runs entirely on your own site, sends nothing anywhere, and only changes how the page is displayed when a visitor asks it to. It doesn't rewrite your content or claim to fix it.

It helps, but it is not compliance on its own. The EAA has applied to many businesses selling products and services to people in the EU, including online shops, since 28 June 2025. Meeting it depends on your content, markup and theme. ExtenderX gives visitors display controls, adds a skip link and visible focus outlines, and Pro helps you draft an accessibility statement and find images missing alt text. Use those alongside your own testing, not instead of it.

Go to ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Accessibility and enable Accessibility Toolbar. Use the gear icon to pick which side the button sits on, how far up from the bottom, which tools appear, and whether the quick profiles row and the Alt+A shortcut are offered. Nothing loads on your site until you enable it.

No. A visitor's choices are stored in their own browser so they carry from page to page. No cookies are set, nothing identifying is recorded, nothing is sent to your server, and nothing is fetched from an external service. You can switch remembering off in the toolbar settings, though visitors then have to set their preferences again on every page.

Enable Skip to Content Link under ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Accessibility and set Target to a CSS selector for your main content area — #main suits most themes. The link stays invisible until a keyboard visitor tabs to it, then moves focus into the content rather than only scrolling. If the selector matches nothing, common landmarks are tried automatically, so it keeps working if you change themes.

Yes. Enable Enhanced Focus Outlines under ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Accessibility and set the ring's color, thickness, and offset. It appears for keyboard and similar input but not for mouse clicks.

With ExtenderX Pro, open ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Accessibility and use Alt Text Audit. It lists media library images with no alternative text and links to each one for editing; results are paginated so it stays fast on large libraries. When writing alt text, describe what the image conveys in context. If an image is purely decorative, leaving it empty is the correct choice.

Yes. If a visitor's system asks for reduced motion, the toolbar starts with motion already paused, and switching that off will not force animations back on for them. The toolbar itself is keyboard operable and announces changes to screen readers.

Yes. The Site Enhancements module (dark mode, sticky header, maintenance mode, seasonal effects, content protection, marketing tools, and more) works with any WordPress theme — classic or block themes. The Block Editor Extensions work within the Gutenberg editor and are compatible with any theme that supports the block editor.

The Site Enhancements tools (dark mode, sticky header, announcement bar, code snippets, seasonal effects, maintenance mode, and so on) work site-wide regardless of which builder or editor you use. The Block Editor Extensions are specific to the WordPress Gutenberg / block editor and do not add animation controls inside Elementor or Divi's own editors.

Go to ExtenderX → Block Editor and make sure Entrance Animation is enabled. Then edit any page or post, select a block, and open the ExtenderX panel in the right sidebar. Choose a preset (fade in, slide up, zoom, flip, bounce, and more), set a duration and delay if you like, and publish. The animation fires once when the block scrolls into the visitor's viewport.

Entrance animations fire once when a block scrolls into view. Floating animation is a continuous looping motion — useful for hero images or feature callouts. Tilt responds to the visitor's cursor position in real time. Only one motion type runs per block at a time.

Most animation plugins only animate their own blocks, or require you to switch to a different page builder. ExtenderX does two things others don't: it adds animations to every block you already use (any Gutenberg block, any plugin), and it bundles a full suite of site-wide tools — dark mode, sticky header, maintenance mode, seasonal effects, code snippets, marketing widgets — so you don't need a separate plugin for each. One dashboard, one plugin, conditional asset loading throughout.

Yes. ExtenderX extends the Gutenberg editor globally, so every registered block — Kadence, Spectra, Stackable, Essential Blocks, Ultimate Blocks, Ghostkit, Greenshift, Otter Blocks, and all core WordPress blocks — automatically gets the ExtenderX sidebar panel with all six extensions.

No. Every module uses conditional asset loading. Animation scripts only load on pages where at least one block uses an effect. Site enhancement scripts only load when their feature is enabled. Disabled features add zero CSS or JavaScript to any page.

Site-Wide Animations (free, beta) lets you set a single reveal style — such as Flip Y — once from the dashboard, and it applies automatically to your content across every page without manually configuring each block. You can still override it per page or per block inside the editor. Block entrance animations, by contrast, are configured individually per block and give you precise control over each effect.

Go to ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Appearance and toggle Dark Mode on. Visitors get a floating button to switch between light and dark. The engine is DarkReader and works with any theme.

Go to ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Site Access Modes and enable Maintenance Mode. Visitors see a maintenance screen; admins keep full access to the backend.

Enable Coming Soon Mode under ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Site Access Modes. Visitors see a full-page coming-soon screen before launch; administrators keep full site access.

Go to ExtenderX → Custom Code, click Add Snippet, paste your tracking code, choose Header (<head>), Body Open (after <body>), or Footer (before </body>) as the injection point, and save. Works for Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, AdSense, and verification tags — no theme file edits needed.

Enable Announcement Bar under ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Marketing. Set your message, colors, position, and whether visitors can dismiss it.

Enable Sticky Header under ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Navigation & Scrolling. Your existing header stays fixed at the top of the viewport as visitors scroll.

Enable Scroll Progress Bar under ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Navigation & Scrolling.

Enable Back to Top Button under ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Navigation & Scrolling. Pro adds a matching Scroll to Bottom button with the same style options; both can be active simultaneously.

Go to ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Seasonal Effects and enable Winter Snow, Autumn Leaves, or Falling Hearts (all free). Pro unlocks Spring Petals, Summer Bubbles, Christmas Lights, Fireworks, Halloween Bats, Ramadan Lanterns, and more. All effects respect the visitor's "reduce motion" preference automatically.

Under ExtenderX → Site Enhancements → Content Protection, toggle any combination of: Disable Right Click, Disable Copy, Disable Inspect, Disable Image Drag, or Hide Admin Bar on Frontend. Each operates independently.

Save & Go adds a menu to the post editor (block and classic) that saves your post and then jumps to the next step: a new post, the post list, the next or previous post, or the front end. Those five actions are free. Pro adds Save & Duplicate, Save & Return, Save & View in New Window, and Bulk Add for creating many posts from a list of titles.

Yes, with ExtenderX Pro. Enable Sticky WhatsApp Button under Site Enhancements → Marketing.

Yes, with ExtenderX Pro. Enable Cookie Consent or GDPR Notice under Site Enhancements → Site Access Modes.

Yes. ExtenderX ships full RTL stylesheet support for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, and other right-to-left languages.

In the Block Editor, select a block, open the ExtenderX panel, and use Visibility Control to toggle visibility per device independently. Visibility is applied with CSS — no duplicate HTML content.

Enable Wrapper Link in the ExtenderX panel for any block and enter a URL. The entire block becomes a clickable link on the frontend.

Click Upgrade to Pro inside the ExtenderX dashboard, or visit wpxero.com/plugins/extenderx/pricing. Install the Pro plugin alongside the free one and activate your licence — your existing settings carry over.