Simple Guides to Web Accessibility

Welcome. This site exists because accessibility guides can be hard to read: full of jargon, buried in specification text, or spread across dozens of pages. We've distilled the essentials into short, practical guides you can act on today.

Whether you're a developer writing your first semantic HTML, a designer checking your color palette, or a content writer figuring out alt text, there's something here for you.

Guides on This Site

• What is WCAG? An introduction to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, what the four principles are, how the three conformance levels work, and why it matters.
• Writing Good Alt Text Alt text is one of the first things screen reader users encounter on a page. Learn when to write it, what to say, and when to leave it empty.
• Color Contrast Explained The numbers behind WCAG's contrast requirements, what 4.5:1 really means, which text sizes get a lower threshold, and how to test your own designs.
• Semantic HTML Basics Choosing the right HTML element is the single most effective thing you can do for accessibility. This guide covers headings, landmarks, links, and lists.
• Keyboard Navigation Not everyone uses a mouse. This guide explains what keyboard accessibility means, which WCAG criteria cover it, and the most common ways it breaks.