Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

WordPress and Drupal are two of the best content management systems available that have very good accessibility features. The issue with using a content management system is not the core CMS but rather the data that is put into CMS. Careful considerations should be considered when developing your content to make sure that is inclusive for everyone who visits your site. Consider the following resources for content management systems:

Digital content typically contains images that serve a variety of purposes. Ensuring your content is accessible doesn't mean that the content and layout needs to be ugly to all users. One of the most effective practices is to properly label images with alternative text, or an alt attribute in your image tag. Screen readers will use the alternative text to display the information in the image to a blind computer user.

Most screen reader users tend to navigate a page that they are unfamiliar with by looking for headings on the page. Screen readers have the ability to navigate using quick navigation hotkeys so they can get to heading level 1 through 6 types quickly and efficiently. By using headings (<h1>, <h2>, etc.) correctly and strategically, the content of your website will be well-organized and easily interpreted by screen readers.

Assuming that a mouse will be used to navigate your site may impact users in negative ways. This is most commonly seen with menus that appear when hovering over a section of the page, widgets that do not have keyboard hooks, multimedia content that doesn't use an accessible player, etc. Make sure your site is fully usable with the only a keyboard.