Accessibility Font Resizer

by Maxime Jobin

Description

Would you like to enable all your visitors to enjoy your site? Not all visitors sees your website the way you do.

This plugin allows you to make your website easier to read and give the visitors of your site the option to change the font size of your text.

Benefits:

Enables more visitor to enjoy your website with custom large and very large font sizes.
Works no matter if your site uses percentage, pixels, em or rem as your font sizes.
Your visitor’s text size is remembered when (s)he revisits the site.
No coding skills required.
Works within minutes.
Flexible and easy to use.
Won’t slow your website.

This plugin was created and is maintained by SatelliteWP, a WordPress maintenance service.

Compatibility

This plugin is multilingual ready.

Installation

In your WordPress administration section, goto Plugins > Add new.
Search for Accessibility font resizer.
Click on ‘Install now’.
Once the plugin is installed, click on ‘Activate’.
Go to Settings > Font resizer to edit the plugin’s settings.

Faq

How can I activate the function of the plugin?

Once the plugin is activated, the functions of the plugin work.

I have activated the plugin, now what ?

To be able to use the plugin, you should create a menu. You can use (or not) that menu in a widget.

The trick is to simply add the CSS class afr-normal to display normal size, afr-large for large text and afr-xlarge for very large text.

You can also apply this CSS technique in your PHP files or directly in your content.

I click the resizer, but (some of) my fonts don’t change in size. How to fix that?

Simply inspect the element that is not resizing properly to know what element it is. Then, simply add it to the ‘HTML Elements’ section in the options’ screen.

You can find the plugin’s settings in Settings > Font resizer.

I use font-size in rem in my theme, will it work?

It’s not a problem. The plugin works with all units!

I use font-size in pixels in my theme, will it work?

It’s not a problem. The plugin works with all units!

I use font-size in percentage in my theme, will it work?

It’s not a problem. The plugin works with all units!

I want to use a shortcode in my content element

There is no shortcode for this plugin. You can call CSS classes directly without the need of a shortcode.

I found a bug

Oh no! We are really sorry about that. Please report bugs here.

Reviews

The code is better than the documentation

By ichnation on October 17, 2025

Refer to the suggestions in the pinned item in the support forum. I also get a feeling of creating redundant enlarger schemes. It works, but it feels a bit nasty.

Simple! Brilliant!

By raygulick on April 12, 2025

I love the simplicity of this plugin, both in terms of setup (I went the modify template route to add the resize buttons) and appearance to visitors. And I especially appreciate the ability to target specific elements and the ability to set a cookie to manage persistence.

I'm pretty sure most of the negative reviews result from people who did not read the instructions or watch the video, and just expected the resizer to automagically appear.

Works great, recommended!

By gransort on October 5, 2024

I've been looking for something like this to make my site more accessible. This plugin is great.

Very practical, effective font resizer plugin with learning curve

By wegerl on March 31, 2023

A bit more complex to use at the beginning, but easy to understand after a quick visit to support. Once you get the hang of it, the Accessibility Font Resizer plugin is really dynamic, effective and helpful. Due to its functionality and ease of use, the plugin deserves a five-star rating!

False Instructions

By madeforbrowser on October 16, 2022

Nothing happens on the site after your instructions. Maybe your plugin has a lot of standard-theme deps but then you should mention it. So for me it does not work anyway

updated review

By akalexander on June 6, 2022

updated review

Simple but effective!

By lotharkoch on March 24, 2022

Does exactly what it's supposed to.

Crazy, missing instructions

By Exo (richardshea) on December 9, 2020

The developer seems to lack giving any instructions beyond a video which is hopeless. Why not give an example, and CSS classes we can copy & paste into buttons or text? This really deserves 5 stars, but get 4 stars because of lack of decent instructions. I don't have the patience to watch a video and pause, type out a class when I want to create my own widget or place it in a page and NOT a menu. A real shame since 30 seconds of the developer writing instructions is all it would need. Anyway, in it's very basic form you can do this: A A A But then you'd need to make your own CSS for styling the cursor, and sizes of those 3 A's if you want it too look good. Why doesn't this plugin have it? Right now, I'm adding my own shortcode and using this plugin core to make my own version!

Instructions useless

By skurrilewelt on October 29, 2020

Looks simple and promising. The instructions are useless - where to add the css class? If a plugin developer is too lazy to add two short sentences as explanation he deserve's only one star, sorry. Looking in the source helps: Goto wp-content/plugins/accessibility-font-resizer/js/script.js to get the idea. Create Buttons or links on your page and add the classes mentioned in the instructions and listed in the js file to accomplish font rezising. It would be so simple to describe this in the instructions so that everybody can manage this

Useless

By robaix on October 16, 2020

all seems simple. Looking at the support site, the very 1st question is not answered: how to let this plug-in work. How can one rate this with 5 stars? self-evaluation? The instruction: "To be able to use the plugin, you should create a menu. You can use (or not) that menu in a widget.". Menu created... now? it doesn't appear anywhere.

Changelog

1.0.4

Added links in the options page for support
Fixed a typo in the documentation
Fixed a typo in class name (leaving the previous error for backward compatibility)

1.0.3

Add debugging option in the settings

1.0.2

Remove renamed file that cause plugin to install twice

1.0.1

Fix version error

1.0.0

First stable version