accessibility glossary

Web Accessibility

Web accessibility is digital accessibility applied specifically to websites and web applications, meaning they can be used with a keyboard alone, understood by screen readers, and perceived without relying on color or precise vision.

In practice, an accessible website has meaningful alt text on images, sufficient color contrast, a logical heading structure, visible keyboard focus, descriptive link text, and forms with properly associated labels and error messages, among many other requirements defined by WCAG.

Web accessibility is not a one-time checklist; because sites change constantly, staying accessible requires testing new content and features as they ship, not just fixing the site once and moving on.

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