What is website accessibility?
Website accessibility is the practice of building websites that everyone uses, including people with visual, hearing, motor or cognitive impairments. The international standard is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
What are the WCAG guidelines?
WCAG is a set of guidelines published by the W3C that define how to make web content accessible.
The guidelines group requirements under four principles: perceivable, operable, understandable and robust.
Who benefits from an accessible website?
Everyone benefits from an accessible website, including disabled visitors, older visitors and people using a phone in bright sunlight.
Clear text, good contrast and simple navigation help every visitor.
What are the basic accessibility checks?
These checks catch the most common accessibility problems.
- Text has strong contrast against its background
- Every image has descriptive alt text
- The whole site works with a keyboard alone
- Form fields have visible labels
- Headings follow a logical order
Does accessibility help SEO?
Accessibility supports SEO because clear headings, alt text and logical structure also help search engines understand a page.
