Oksigenia Access

Oksigenia Access is a powerful accessibility toolbar designed to let visitors adapt your site to their needs. It is lightweight, fast, and works with any theme. No telemetry, no external requests, no account required. Profile Presets (one click, additive):

• Low Vision: zoom + high contrast + highlight links + big cursor + focus outlines.
• Dyslexia: dyslexia font + line height + letter spacing + reading guide.
• Motor: big cursor + big targets (44×44 hit area) + focus outlines.
• No Distractions: hide images + pause animations.

17 Atomic Controls:

• Text: Resize text (4 levels), line height (3 levels), align (3 levels), readable font, dyslexia font, letter spacing (3 levels).
• Vision: High contrast, grayscale, hide images, highlight links, colorblind filters (Protanopia, Deuteranopia, Tritanopia).
• Orientation: Reading guide, reading mask, big cursor, big targets (WCAG 2.5.5 minimum 44×44), pause animations, focus outlines.

Multi-language: Built-in support for English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, and Guarani. Customizable: Choose icon position (Desktop & Mobile), size, colors, and main icon style (Vitruvian Man, Wheelchair, Eye, Universal). Why Oksigenia Access? We believe accessibility should be free and easy. This plugin is developed by Oksigenia IT as a contribution to the open-source community.

17.9

• Fix: the panel now scrolls inside its own height. On short screens or at high text zoom the content used to push the header (close button) and footer (Reset All) off-screen, leaving the panel impossible to close. The content area is now a scrollable flex child (flex:1 1 auto; min-height:0) while the header and footer stay pinned and reachable.

17.8

• New: a "Controls & profiles" section in the settings page lets you choose exactly which of the 17 controls the panel offers visitors (all shown by default) — untick the ones that do not apply to your site, and empty section headings disappear. The profile shortcuts (Low Vision, Dyslexia, Motor, No Distractions) can be turned off, and a profile auto-hides when curation leaves it with fewer than two of its controls.
• New: "Let visitors move the button" lets a visitor reposition the floating trigger within bounds (drag or arrow keys), persisted in their browser and kept on screen — an accessibility aid for reduced visual fields, screen magnifiers or one-handed reach.
• New: a "Porthole" trigger icon that frames the standard accessibility glyph in a ring without replacing it.
• Everything is opt-in: an existing install with default settings behaves exactly as before.

17.7

• Accessibility: multi-step controls (text size, line height, alignment, letter spacing, color-blind) now announce their current level to screen readers with a localized aria-label ("Size, level 2 of 4") instead of only an on/off state, so a screen-reader user can tell level 1 from level 4. The panel's own transitions and hover animations are now disabled under prefers-reduced-motion.

17.6

• Fix: the Reset button cleaned the plugin's body classes with a regex that split two-hyphen class names, leaving stray tokens like -font or -cursor behind on the body class attribute after every reset. Classes are now removed one by one via classList, scoped to the oks- namespace, so the body is left exactly as the plugin found it. Also aligns the internal version constant used for asset cache-busting, which had fallen behind the plugin version.

17.5

• Accessibility fix: while closed, the panel kept aria-hidden="true" but still held focusable controls, which axe and Lighthouse flag as aria-hidden-focus (serious) — a keyboard or screen-reader user could reach controls inside something hidden from assistive tech, and it contradicted aria-modal. The closed state now uses the inert attribute instead, removing the panel from both the tab order and the accessibility tree. No change when the panel is open; the focus trap, Escape-to-close and focus return were already in place.

17.4

• Fix: counter-zoom the plugin's own surfaces (trigger button, panel, gray overlay, reading guide, reading mask) so they keep their natural size while the rest of the page scales. In 17.3 the panel grew with the text — at level 3-4 the Reset button and the bottom controls fell below the viewport, making the panel partly unusable. Each level now applies zoom: calc(1 / level) to the plugin elements to cancel the body zoom on them only.

17.3

• Fix: switched text-size from font-size scaling on html/body to CSS zoom on body. The previous approaches (17.1: html :has() + percentage; 17.2: pin body to 1rem) only moved elements that inherited their font-size; descendants that the theme had pinned with explicit font-size: NNpx declarations stayed put. On themes that hardcode px throughout (common in many classic WP themes), the text simply didn't scale even at level 4. zoom scales the rendered size of every descendant proportionally, like the browser's own Ctrl+= zoom, which is the behaviour users expect from a text-size control. Browser support: Chrome/Edge/Safari forever, Firefox 126+ (May 2024). Side effect: the plugin's own floating button and panel also scale with the level, matching native browser zoom behaviour.

17.2

• Fix: on themes that hardcode body { font-size: NNpx } (common on classic WP themes), the 17.1 text-size fix scaled the root <html> and anything sized in rem (logos, gaps, etc.) but left the body and its descendants pinned to the theme's px declaration — so the visible text didn't move. Now body.oks-zoom-N also pins font-size: 1rem !important, which re-anchors body into the rem chain so descendants that inherit (no explicit font-size) scale with the level. Descendants with their own explicit font-size: NNpx declaration are still isolated, which is the trade-off vs. the exponential bug of pre-17.0 versions.

17.1

• Fix: text-size levels (1-4) blew up the layout exponentially. The previous body.oks-zoom-N * rules applied font-size: 1.05em / 1.10em / 1.15em / 1.20em !important to every descendant via the universal selector. Since em is parent-relative, the factor compounded at every nesting level — a heading 3 levels deep ended up at 1.20³ = 1.73× its intended size, blowing up the layout at level 3 and making the page unusable at level 4. New rules apply font-size: NN% to the root <html> via :has(body.oks-zoom-N), so em / rem descendants scale exactly once. Same fix already applied to @oksigenia/access-panel since 0.3.3.
• Note: with this fix the header/nav also scale with the level (previously they were excluded from the buggy rule). This is the intended behaviour of an accessibility text-size control. If a theme's header doesn't reflow gracefully at +50%, that's a theme limitation to handle in the theme itself.

17.0

• New: Reading Mask in Orientation — dark overlay with a lit reading band that follows the cursor; more restrictive than the existing reading guide when surroundings are visually noisy.
• New: Big Targets in Orientation — bumps interactive hit-areas (links, buttons, form controls) to 44×44 minimum (WCAG 2.5.5/2.5.8). Adjusts padding + min-* only, never display, so host layouts survive.
• New: 4 profile presets at the top of the panel (Low Vision, Dyslexia, Motor, No Distractions). Each one applies a bundle of related toggles in one click. Additive — pressing several unions their flags. 250 ms flash feedback on click; the buttons do not carry a persistent active state because users can adjust afterwards and a "preset active" indicator would lie.
• 17 atomic controls total (was 15) + 4 presets. 7 new translation keys added across all 8 locales (incl. Guaraní).
• Admin: added Liberapay donation button alongside the existing PayPal one.
• No breaking changes. Existing settings, localStorage state and CSS classes are preserved.

16.9

• Standardized PHP/JS prefix to oksiac_ across all functions, options, settings group, hooks, script handles, localized JS object and localStorage key (WordPress.org Plugin Review compliance).
• Moved admin inline <style> and <script> blocks to enqueued assets (assets/css/admin.css, assets/js/admin.js).
• Added OKSIAC_VERSION constant for asset cache busting.
• Restricted admin assets to the plugin settings page via the admin_enqueue_scripts hook.
• No functional change for site visitors.

16.8

• Renamed plugin to "Oksigenia Access".
• Added full WordPress i18n support: all admin strings wrapped in __() with text domain oksigenia-access.
• Added translation files (.pot template + .po for es_ES, fr_FR, de_DE, it_IT, nl_NL, sv_SE).
• Improved mobile panel: larger touch targets (88px), bigger icons and labels, focus button spans full width when cursor option is hidden.
• All PHP and CSS comments rewritten in English.
• Updated Tested up to: 6.9.

16.7

• Redesigned big cursor: cleaner shape with white outline for visibility on any background.
• Big cursor now uses @media (pointer: fine) — does not activate on touch devices.
• Cursor option hidden from panel on mobile (irrelevant on touchscreens).
• Reading guide now follows finger on touchscreens (touchmove support).
• Focus mode: improved iOS Safari tap highlight integration.

16.6

• Fixed invisible icons (replaced stroke-based SVGs with fill-based for Hide/Focus buttons).
• Fixed big cursor not working in Firefox/Safari (URL-encoded SVG data URI).
• Focus mode now shows dashed outline on all interactive elements immediately on activation.

16.5

• Added Letter Spacing control (3 levels, WCAG 1.4.12 compliant).
• Added Color Blind simulation modes (Protanopia, Deuteranopia, Tritanopia).
• Added enhanced Focus Indicators toggle.
• Replaced all emoji/Unicode icons with consistent inline SVGs.
• Full ARIA dialog implementation: focus trap, Escape key, focus management.
• Replaced external CDN icon dependencies with inline SVGs.

16.4

• Removed TTS feature for stability.
• Improved UI layout (no gaps).
• Fixed Front Page loading logic.
• Optimized code structure for repository standards.

16.0

• Added independent mobile position settings.
• Fixed grid layout issues in admin panel.

15.2

• Improved "Close" button visibility.
• Enhanced branding visibility.

15.1

• Added Guarani language support.
• Updated Admin Panel to English (Standard).

14.2

• Added icon selector (Vitruvian, Wheelchair, Eye, Universal).
• Improved Dyslexia font rendering.

14.0

• Initial release on WordPress.org.