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Everyone benefits by making sure your online services meet internationally recognised standards - the Web Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

Thinking about this from the beginning helps:

  • make sure that no one is excluded
  • increase the visibility of your online content
  • find out earlier if any parts of your service aren’t accessible - problems cost a lot less to fix if you find them early.

Learn more

Watch World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) introduction to web accessibility video (4 minutes 7 seconds):

  • Transcript and translations: web accessibility introduction (W3C)

  • Page last updated: 22 June 2021