{"id":15802,"date":"2020-01-24T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T19:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/?p=15802"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T19:24:10","slug":"what-is-website-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/blog\/what-is-website-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Website Accessibility?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\r\n<article class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-beige has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-772205c6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained is-style-beige--1\" 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Blog<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/header>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity aligngrid\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\"\/>\r\n<\/header>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-style-default has-neutral-20-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\"><div class=\"aligncenter aligncenter wp-block-tribe-terms\"><ul class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__list\"><li class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__term\"><span class=\"wp-block-tribe-terms__link t-category\">Accessibility<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h1 style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\">What is Website Accessibility?<\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9b38c6d9 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\"><div style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-author-name\">The Mediavine Team<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date has-10-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2020-01-24T13:30:31-06:00\">January 24, 2020<\/time><\/div><\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">When I first started learning about website accessibility, I thought of it the way most people do \u2014 assuming that it\u2019s about making websites more usable for people with disabilities.\n\nI quickly learned that this is only partially correct.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8441 size-mv_create_no_ratio\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blogger-working-735x615.jpg\" alt=\"Hands shown taking notes. \" width=\"735\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blogger-working-735x615.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blogger-working-359x300.jpg 359w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blogger-working-768x642.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blogger-working-550x460.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blogger-working.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/>\n\nWhen most of us think of people with disabilities, we think of extreme examples of <strong>Permanent Disabilities<\/strong> \u2014 such as someone who is completely blind, or perhaps someone who is paralyzed.\n\nBut there are other kinds of disabilities. There are <strong>Temporary Disabilities<\/strong>, such as an injury or perhaps a bad head cold.\n\nThere are also <strong>Invisible Disabilities<\/strong>, such as fibromyalgia, Crohn\u2019s disorder, chronic pain or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. These may make it hard for someone to focus, especially if there are visual or auditory distractions (such as videos that autoplay!).\n\nFinally, we have <strong>Situational Disabilities<\/strong>. This could be as simple as being at a loud party or restaurant and unable to hear a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/mediavine-video-capabilities\/\">video<\/a>\u2026 Or perhaps a mother holding a sick baby in one arm, trying to look up her doctor\u2019s phone number on a website with her other arm.\n\nSo \u201cDisabilities\u201d actually runs along a broad spectrum \u2014 it\u2019s not always just the extreme cases.\n\nAdditionally, as we age, our ability to figure out and use new web interfaces diminishes by about 1% a year with each year after the age of 25. In other words, we\u2019re all going to be disabled to a degree at some point.\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Brownlee, a tech journalist who writes about tech and disabilities, said it best: \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/modus.medium.com\/why-accessibility-is-the-future-of-tech-a3f535cc4f0e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a long enough timeline, accessibility becomes important to everyone.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, this means that <\/span><b>\u201cAccessibility\u201d is simply \u201cUsability for Everyone.\u201d<\/b>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7848 size-mv_create_no_ratio\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-computer-735x489.jpg\" alt=\"hands typing while using a computer\" width=\"735\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-computer-735x489.jpg 735w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-computer-441x293.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-computer-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-computer-692x460.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hands-computer.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/>\n<h2>The WCAG Principles of Accessibility<\/h2>\nSo, how do we make websites usable for everyone? The most commonly accepted set of accessibility standards is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/standards-guidelines\/wcag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines<\/a> (WCAG).\n\nThis lays out the specific ways a site can become accessible, and it also has different levels of compliance: A, AA and AAA.\n\nFor most sites, to be considered \u201cfully accessible,\u201d the site should meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/quickref\/?currentsidebar=%23col_customize&amp;levels=aaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">level AA requirements<\/a>. (AAA is extremely difficult to achieve, and typically only needed for very specialized audiences.)\n\nWCAG breaks it down into four categories. For a website to be considered accessible, it must be:\n<ol>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Perceivable <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 The content cannot be invisible to a user\u2019s senses.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Operable <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 The user must be able to operate the interface.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Understandable <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 The user must be able to understand the information, and how to operate the interface.<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Robust <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014 The website must work on a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies. And as technology evolves, the website should continue to work.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6840 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/seo-search-laptop.jpg\" alt=\"women typing on a laptop next to a cup of coffee\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/seo-search-laptop.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/seo-search-laptop-441x294.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/seo-search-laptop-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/seo-search-laptop-690x460.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of the guidelines can be met with sitewide changes \u2014 which are usually handled by your designer, or are (hopefully) built-in to your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/ad-friendly-website-redesign\/\">website\u2019s theme<\/a>. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/migrating-to-wordpress\/\">WordPress<\/a> Theme repository, you can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/themes\/tags\/accessibility-ready\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">search for themes that are \u201caccessibility ready\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<em>Mediavine note:<\/em> Our WordPress framework <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/introducing-trellis\/\">Trellis<\/a> is built to score a 100 on Lighthouse accessibility.)<\/span>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pro-tip: If you hire a developer to redesign your site, put it in your contract that their design must meet WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines.<\/span><\/i>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other guidelines are more content-based \u2014 and that\u2019s where it\u2019s most important for you, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/inclusivity-in-the-influencer-industry\/\">content creator<\/a>, to learn how to make sure all the great content your adding is accessible. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So to help you with that, in my next post I\u2019ll go over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/six-ways-to-make-your-website-more-accessible\/\">six ways to make your website more accessible<\/a> for everyone.<\/span>\n<h3>More Resources<\/h3>\nI hope you\u2019re now motivated to make continual accessibility improvements to your site!\n\nAs you continue learning more and improving your site, here are some resources I\u2019ve found helpful:\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/WCAG21\/quickref\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WCAG 2.1 Quick Reference Guide<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/a11yproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The A11Y Project<\/a> \u2014 A community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier. (\u201ca11y\u201d is a not-very-accessible <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Numeronym\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">numeronym<\/a> for \u201caccessibility\u201d)\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/web\/fundamentals\/accessibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google\u2019s Web Fundamentals for Accessibility<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Web Aim<\/a> \u2014Web Accessibility in Mind. Contains a number of scanning tools, like their <a href=\"https:\/\/wave.webaim.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WAVE site evaluation tool<\/a>, where you can easily run a free, quick accessibility test on your site, and their <a href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/resources\/contrastchecker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Color Contrast Checker<\/a>.\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/userway.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Userway<\/a> &#8211; Add a widget to your site that will give users tools to modify your site on-the-fly, to suit their needs. (This is a great \u201cband-aid\u201d tool to help with compliance, but it\u2019s still better to fix any underlying issues on your site.)\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/tool-for-ada-section-508-and-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WP Accessibility Tools &amp; Alt Text Finder<\/a> \u2014 A WordPress Plugin to help with compliance.\n<h3>About Andrew<\/h3>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15818 size-mv_create_1x1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AndrewWilder-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Andrew Wilder\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AndrewWilder-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AndrewWilder-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mediavine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AndrewWilder-320x320.jpg 320w, 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