Get started with accessibility. These tips introduce some basic considerations for making your website more accessible to people with disabilities, and provide links to additional guidance. Tips are grouped by activity; information relevant to your work might be in more than one page.| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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Technique H56:Using the dir attribute on an inline element to resolve problems with nested directional runs| www.w3.org
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Technique F34:Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 due to using white space characters to| www.w3.org
Technique F33:Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 due to using white space characters to| www.w3.org
Example 1| www.w3.org
The objective of this technique is to ensure that the order of content in the source code is the same as the visual presentation of the content. The order of content in the source code can be changed by the author to any number of visual presentations with CSS. Each order may be meaningful in itself but may cause confusion for assistive technology users. This could be due to the user switching off the author-specified presentation, by accessing the content directly from the source code (such ...| www.w3.org
The tablular layout in this example was created via CSS. In this example the| www.w3.org
The tablular layout in this example was created via CSS. This demonstrates a| www.w3.org
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The objective of this technique is to provide the description of names or terms by presenting them in a description list. The list is marked up using the dl element. Within the list, each term is put in a separate dt element, and its description goes in the dd element directly following it. Multiple terms can be associated with a single description, as can a single term with multiple descriptions, provided that semantic sequence is maintained. The title attribute can be used to provide additi...| www.w3.org
Technique G70:Providing a function to search an online dictionary| www.w3.org
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Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Example 3: Button referenced by position and accessible name| www.w3.org
Technique F26:| www.w3.org
Technique F14:Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.3 due to identifying content only by its shape or| www.w3.org
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assistive technologyhardware and/or software that acts as a user agent, or along with a mainstream user agent, to provide functionality to meet the requirements| www.w3.org
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Technique ARIA9:Using aria-labelledby to concatenate a label from several text nodes| www.w3.org
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Technique ARIA14:Using aria-label to provide an invisible label where a visible label cannot be used| www.w3.org
Technique H57:Using the language attribute on the HTML element| www.w3.org
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Technique SM14:Providing sign language interpretation through synchronized video| www.w3.org
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Short videos demonstrating how Web accessibility is essential for people with disabilities and useful for all in a variety of situations.| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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Technique G62:Providing a glossary| www.w3.org
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Technique G125:Providing links to navigate to related web pages| www.w3.org
Introduction to Understanding WCAG 2.2| www.w3.org
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Technique ARIA7:Using aria-labelledby for link purpose| www.w3.org
Examples of Status Messages that Do Not Add New Text to the Screen| www.w3.org
Technique F96:Failure due to the accessible name not containing the visible label text| www.w3.org
Technique F111:Failure of Success Criteria 1.3.1, 2.5.3, and 4.1.2 due to a control with visible label text but no accessible name| www.w3.org
For developers, designers, ux, writers, managers, advocates - professionals, instructors, students - technical and non-technical.| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Short video about captions for web accessibility - what are they, who depends on them, how they help everyone, and what needs to happen to make them work.| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Technique H34:Using a Unicode right-to-left mark (RLM) or left-to-right mark (LRM) to mix text direction inline| www.w3.org
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Technique C8:Using CSS letter-spacing to control spacing within a word| www.w3.org
Technique SM13:Providing sign language interpretation through synchronized video streams in SMIL 1.0| www.w3.org
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Short video about colors with good contrast for web accessibility - what is it, who depends on it, and what needs to happen to make it work.| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Introduces the user needs and user experiences of people with disabilities using audio and video on the web. Also, benefits of accessible media to people without disabilities and to organizations.| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Describes accessibility considerations when planning, scripting, storyboarding, recording, and producing audio and video media.| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Understanding Conformance Requirements| www.w3.org
Answers to some frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
User Interface Components| www.w3.org
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Example 1: Document IconA document icon is used to indicate document download throughout a site. The text| www.w3.org
Helps you plan how to make audio and video media accessible, whether you are outsourcing it or creating it in-house.| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).| Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Status: Updated 18 July 2025, Version 3.0.3. Changelog. Previous version.| www.w3.org
Tool to help report on accessibility of authoring tools. Guides through the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) requirements, allows you to record evaluation results and generate a report of the authoring tool's ATAG conformance.| www.w3.org
Additional information| www.w3.org