Accessibility means people can use your site with low vision, no mouse, a screen reader, a tremor, or simply a phone in bright sunlight. It also tends to improve search visibility and conversion, because clear sites are easier for everyone.
You do not need to master the full WCAG guidelines to begin. These basics cover the problems that appear most often, and you can verify each one yourself in a few minutes.
Accessibility starts with four habits: strong colour contrast, full keyboard use, meaningful alt text on images, and readable, correctly directed text. They help people with disabilities and everyone else too.
Contrast and readable text
Light grey text on white looks elegant and is unreadable for many. WCAG AA asks for a contrast ratio of at least 4.5 to 1 for normal text and 3 to 1 for large text. Free contrast checkers let you paste two colours and get the ratio.
- Use body text of at least 16 px with generous line spacing.
- Never rely on colour alone, for example red for errors; add an icon or words.
- Let users zoom; do not disable pinch-to-zoom.
Keyboard and focus
Press Tab on your site. Can you reach every link, button and form field in a logical order, and can you always see where you are? A visible focus outline is essential. Menus, pop-ups and carousels must work with Enter, Space and Escape too.
Alt text, labels and structure
Every meaningful image needs a short description of what it shows or does; decorative images get an empty alt so screen readers skip them. Every form field needs a visible label, not just placeholder text. Use real headings in order and buttons that say what they do, instead of "click here".
Right-to-left languages
For Arabic, Urdu or Hebrew, set the page direction to RTL and the language attribute correctly so screen readers pick the right voice. Mirror layout and directional icons such as arrows, but keep logos, phone numbers and video controls as they are. Use a font designed for the script, give Arabic text more line height, and decide deliberately between Arabic-Indic and Western numerals, then stay consistent.
Ask for it in chat
With Uttra you can request these improvements in plain words. A prompt:
"Improve accessibility on my site: raise text contrast to WCAG AA, add visible focus outlines, give every image meaningful alt text, label all form fields, make the menu work with the keyboard, and make sure the RTL Arabic version mirrors correctly."
Then test it yourself with Tab only, at 200 percent zoom, and with a free screen reader. Automated tools catch only part of the problems.