Web Accessibility: Designing Digital Experiences Everyone Can Use

What Is Web Accessibility? 🧑‍💻 ## Why Web Accessibility Matters 🚨 ## 1. It Expands Your Audience ## 2. It Is a Legal Requirement ## 3. It Improves SEO and Performance ## What Does an Accessible Website Look Like? ## How Can You Quickly Check Your Website? 🔍 ## Accessibility Is an Investment, Not a Cost Your website is often the first conversation with your customer. But what if some people can’t even join that conversation? Web accessibility ensures that everyone, including people with disabilities, can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with your digital products. And today — it is no longer optional. Web accessibility means building websites and applications that work for: Accessibility improves usability for everyone — not just users with disabilities. Good accessibility is simply good design. More than 1 billion people worldwide live with some form of disability. An inaccessible website silently excludes them. Accessibility laws are enforced globally: Non-compliance can lead to: Accessible websites usually have: Search engines and assistive technologies consume content in similar ways. Accessibility directly supports SEO and discoverability. An accessible website: You may not see accessibility — but users will experience it. A very quick self-check: These steps reveal surface issues. True accessibility requires expert evaluation and remediation. An accessible website is: Most importantly — it is inclusive by design. Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Are you sure you want to hide this comment? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse - People with visual impairments - People who use screen readers - People who navigate using only a keyboard - People with hearing, cognitive, or motor disabilities - People on older devices, slow networks, or small screens - More engagement - More conversions - United States: ADA, Section 508 - United Kingdom: Equality Act, Public Sector Accessibility Regulations - India: Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPWD) - Legal notices - Financial penalties - Brand reputation damage - Clean, semantic HTML - Proper headings and structure - Better mobile usability - Faster load times - Works without a mouse - Has readable text and proper color contrast - Supports screen readers correctly - Uses meaningful headings and landmarks - Provides text alternatives for images - Maintains logical focus order - Navigate using only the Tab key - Zoom the page to 200% - Disable images — does content still make sense? - Run a basic audit using Lighthouse or WAVE - Easier to use - Easier to maintain - Easier to scale - Ready for future regulations