By law your website must be accessible to disabled people; ‘How To Keep Your Website Accessible‘ tells you how to achieve that. NOTE: This document was written quite a few years ago: there will be information in it that you will find useful, however, there may also be information that no longer applies and links to resources that no longer work.
Keeping your website accessible
Introductory Notes
This document has been developed to help ensure your new website is accessible. It assumes that the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) WCAG 2 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2) guidelines are a valid way to measure website accessibility. The WCAG 2 guidelines are designed to provide, ‘a single shared standard for web content accessibility that meets the needs of individuals, organisations, and governments internationally.’ This document assumes that your website aims to meet WCAG 2 AA standards…
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