Website Accessibility

There are key elements to ensuring an accessible Web experience for all users. Below are tips for design your site accessibly.

Key Elements in Creating Accessible Sites

• Image Descriptions (Alt Tags): Make images accessible
• Color Contrast: Color your site with care
• Use Headings to organize your documents
• Hyperlink Text: Give your links unique and descriptive names
• All content is accessible with keyboard alone, in a logical way
• Design your forms for accessibility
• Create accessible Data Tables
• Taming the Wild West of Dynamic Content on the Web for Accessibility
• Use an Accessible Content Management System 

ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications

• Use ARIA Properties and Roles
• ARIA Made Easy

Web Validation Resources and Tools

View our Web Validation Tools and Techniques page to view options for checking your site and content for accessibility.

More Web Accessibility Resources

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Government Website
• Section 508
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0

  • Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)

• WebAIM
• Web Accessibility for Designers
• Web Accessibility Gone Wild - Now even wilder!
• University of California, Berkeley: Top 10 Tips for Making Your Website Accessible
• Web Accessibility for Section 508
• Introduction to Web Accessibility Course from Google
• A Web for Everyone, Designing Accessible User Experiences
• Accessibility Handbook, Making 508 Compliant Websites