Accessibility is not a nice-to-have
Accessibility sounds like a compliance topic. It is really a customer topic. Roughly one in five people in the UK has some form of disability, and many more have a broken arm, a cracked screen, or bright sunlight on a phone.
The basics that cover most of it
- Contrast. Light grey text on white looks elegant and is unreadable for a lot of people.
- Text size. Sixteen pixels minimum for body text, and it must scale when the user zooms.
- Keyboard. Every link, button and form field reachable with the Tab key.
- Images. A short description of each meaningful image for screen readers.
- Forms. Labels on every field, and error messages that say what to fix.
Why it helps everyone
Accessible sites are faster, clearer and rank better, because the things screen readers need are the things Google needs too.
Every site we build is checked against these before launch. It is not extra work when it is done from the start.
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