Optimize your site with the accessibility checklist

Accessibility helps you open up your content to a wider audience, so more people are able to access your site. A great resource to help get you started is this list of accessibility checks made by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). In this post, we’ll highlight a few important checks, so make sure you read the rest of the checklist as well. Let’s optimize your website for every visitor!

What is accessibility and why is it important?

Accessibility is making sure as many people as possible can use your site. Makes sense, right? After all, you’ve created a website because you want to reach your audience. And by following the checklist, you make sure you’re reaching everyone.

If you don’t, there might be people who can’t access information on your site. You’d be neglecting a huge part of your audience and in turn, missing out on a bunch of engagement and SEO opportunities. So, let’s get to work and check off these accessibility checks!

Provide a text equivalent

For every non-text element, you should provide a textual equivalent. That goes for things like images, but also

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