Web Accessibility
An accessible website enables people with different sensory, motor, and cognitive abilities to use its content and functions. Important measures include semantic structures, keyboard operation, sufficient contrast, scalable presentation, understandable text, media alternatives, and clearly identifiable status and error messages.
Accessibility is an ongoing quality process rather than a one-time technical checklist. Planning, design, development, editorial work, and maintenance share responsibility. Automated tests should be complemented by manual evaluation and, where possible, testing with disabled users. Many measures also support usability and technical quality, but improved SEO is neither automatic nor a substitute for accessibility.
- Make content and functions accessible to different abilities
- Test keyboard use, contrast, semantics, and media alternatives
- Include design, technology, and editorial teams
- Combine automated and manual evaluation
- Maintain accessibility continuously
Frequently asked questions
An accessible website makes its content and functionality available to people with different abilities and assistive technologies.
No. Responsive layouts support different displays but do not automatically address keyboard operation, semantics, contrast, or media alternatives.
