Web Development
What is web accessibility?
Quick answer
Web accessibility means building websites so that people with disabilities can use them, including those who rely on screen readers, keyboard navigation, captions, or high contrast. It follows standards like the WCAG guidelines, covering things like readable text, descriptive labels, and content that works without a mouse.
Accessibility covers a wide range of needs across vision, hearing, motor, and cognitive differences. Practical steps include a proper heading structure, alt text for images, sufficient colour contrast, keyboard-operable controls, and form fields with clear labels, many of which are defined in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Beyond being the right thing to do, accessible sites reach more people, tend to have cleaner code, and often rank better because the same structure helps search engines. In some markets it is also a legal requirement.
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