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BirchToad adds a small button to your site. A visitor who clicks it gets a panel where they can\nchange how your pages look and behave, to suit how they read: bigger text, more line spacing, a\nreadable font, stronger contrast, a dark or light theme, less saturation, highlighted links and\nheadings, a reading guide, a big cursor, animations stopped, images hidden.<\/p>\n\n
Their choices are remembered in their own browser, and the toolbar sends nothing anywhere.<\/p>\n\n
What BirchToad is, and what it is not<\/strong><\/p>\n\n BirchToad helps real people use your site, and it supports the accessibility work you do. It does\nnot make a website accessible, compliant or conformant with WCAG, the ADA or the European\nAccessibility Act, and no toolbar can. Missing alternative text, an unclear heading order,\nunlabelled form fields and keyboard traps all have to be fixed in the site itself. We would rather\ntell you that plainly than sell you a badge.<\/p>\n\n Built for right to left sites<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The panel lays out right to left whenever your site does, and that works even before any\ntranslation exists, because direction is read from the site and not from a language file. Hebrew\nand Arabic were in the first release rather than added later.<\/p>\n\n Nothing loads from anyone else's server<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Every stylesheet, script and icon the toolbar uses is served from your own server. Your visitors are\nnever sent to a CDN, and nothing about them is collected or sent anywhere. That is a privacy and\nperformance difference from the hosted overlay services, not a detail.<\/p>\n\n About the Freemius library<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The plugin does include Freemius, which is how the paid version is licensed and updated. It asks you\nonce whether to connect, you can skip that screen and keep using the plugin, and it never touches the\nfront end your visitors see. Everything it would send is listed under External services below.<\/p>\n\n What visitors can change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n In the Pro version<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The toolbar your visitors use makes no external requests at all. Nothing on this list runs on the\nfront end, and none of it involves your visitors.<\/p>\n\n Freemius (freemius.com)<\/strong>\nPurpose: Freemius is the licensing and software updates engine behind the paid version of\nBirchToad. It handles the upgrade, account and license screens inside your WordPress admin.\nData sent: nothing at all unless you connect. On activation the plugin shows a Freemius screen that\nasks for permission and lists exactly what it would read; you can skip it, and the plugin keeps\nworking with every free feature. If you do connect, Freemius receives your homepage address and\ntitle, your WordPress, PHP and plugin versions, your site language, whether the plugin is active or\nuninstalled, and the first name, last name and email address on your WordPress user account. Two\nfurther items, the list of your installed plugins and themes and a newsletter subscription, are\nmarked optional on that screen and are yours to switch off. Nothing about your visitors is ever\nincluded.\nWhen: on activation if you accept, and afterwards when you open the plugin's upgrade, account or\nlicense screens, or when a license or update is checked.\nCan be disabled: skip the connection screen when it appears, or disconnect later from the\nBirchToad account screen in your admin.\nTerms: https:\/\/freemius.com\/terms\/ | Privacy: https:\/\/freemius.com\/privacy\/<\/p>\n\n\n No, and be careful with any plugin that says it does. The United States Federal Trade Commission\nfined an overlay vendor one million dollars in 2025 over that claim, and the European Commission\nhas said overlays do not satisfy the European Accessibility Act. BirchToad gives your visitors\nuseful controls and helps you find real problems. Fixing those problems is still work on the site.<\/p><\/dd>\n The stylesheet and the script are small, served from your own server, and load in the footer. The\npages your visitors see fetch nothing from anywhere else.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. A visitor's choices live in their own browser storage. The plugin stores one settings row in\nyour database and nothing about visitors at all. No analytics, no visitor data, no profiling.<\/p><\/dd>\n Only what you agree to, and only in the admin. The plugin includes Freemius, the service that\nlicenses and updates the paid version. On activation it asks once whether to connect. Skip that\nscreen and nothing is sent. Connect, and it receives your site address and title, your WordPress,\nPHP and plugin versions, your site language, and the name and email address on your WordPress\naccount. Full detail is under External services below.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, and without a translation file present. Direction comes from your site.<\/p><\/dd>\n The panel's own controls are hardened against theme and page builder styles. A theme that marks its\nbutton rules as important can still reach them, which is the one known limit.<\/p><\/dd>\n They are kept. Deleting BirchToad removes nothing unless you first switch on \"Delete all BirchToad\nsettings\" on the Advanced tab.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n\n
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Does this make my site compliant?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it slow my site down?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it collect anything about my visitors?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does anything leave my site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work on right to left sites?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will it clash with my theme?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What happens to my settings if I delete the plugin?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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