Accessibility and design

Accessible design is often misunderstood as a legal checkbox. In reality, accessibility improves clarity, usability, and trust for all users.

What accessible design means

Accessible design focuses on readability, contrast, navigation clarity, and interaction ease. It helps users with visual impairments, motor difficulties, and cognitive challenges.

Accessibility benefits everyone

Clear contrast, readable text, and sensible layouts improve comprehension, engagement, and confidence. Accessibility is good design.

Common accessibility issues

Many sites struggle with low contrast text, unclear focus states, poor keyboard navigation, and inaccessible forms. These issues also hurt conversions.

Accessibility and trust

Accessible sites feel professional, considered, and reliable. Users associate accessibility with quality.

Accessibility and SEO

Accessible design supports crawlability, semantic structure, and user engagement. See Technical SEO and Accessibility basics.

For next steps, see Colour and Typography.