Hi @Igor Couto , I’d strongly recommend avoiding accessibility plugins like these. Here’s why:
- Incomplete coverage – These tools mostly surface surface-level issues like color contrast or keyboard nav. They don’t fix deeper problems like poor semantics or missing ARIA attributes, so the site remains inaccessible to people using assistive tech.
- Legal risk – Despite what the marketing says, overlays often don’t meet legal accessibility requirements. There’s actually data showing that sites using them are more likely to be targeted in accessibility lawsuits.
- Bad user experience – These overlays can interfere with screen readers or custom settings disabled users rely on, making the experience worse — not better — for the people they’re supposed to help.
- False sense of security – A lot of teams add these and assume their site’s “covered,” when it’s really not. We’ve seen devs skip best practices just because these tools gave them a passing score.
- Performance impact – It’s extra code that slows down the site, often for no real benefit.
- Cost – Most of these tools require a subscription, which adds up, especially when you’re not getting real value from it.
Honestly, most people who rely on accessibility tech already have their browsers or tools configured how they need. Slapping a widget on your site doesn’t help them, it just adds noise. These overlays are often sold to people who want to be accessible but don’t fully understand what that means. In the end, it’s just performative.
If you actually care about accessibility, the best thing you can do is write clean, semantic, standards-based code from the start.
