Techniques
Agent Ready Website: What AI Browser Agents Need to Read
Browser agents read the same names, roles and labels as screen readers, so the WCAG fixes that help people also stop agents getting stuck.
Accessibility guides
WCAG explained with code, for the people who build and audit websites.
Compliance & Law
Color Contrast Requirements: WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 and the ADA
Which contrast ratio each WCAG version and each US and EU rule asks for, and what to tell a client who asks whether a ratio makes a site compliant.
Techniques
WCAG 2.5.8 Target Size: The 24px Minimum and Its Exceptions
What 2.5.8 actually asks for, the spacing exception worked out in pixels, and CSS fixes that leave the design alone.
Compliance & Law
WCAG 2.2 Checklist: Every Level A and AA Criterion
All 55 Level A and AA success criteria in plain words, how to check each one, and which ones a scan can see and which need a person.
Techniques
Heading Structure Accessibility: Fix H1s, Skips and Landmarks
What a missing h1 or a skipped heading level really costs, which findings WCAG requires you to fix, and the markup that fixes them.
Techniques
ARIA Live Regions: aria-live, role=status and role=alert
How to make status messages, result counts and toasts heard by screen readers, and why a live region that looks right can stay silent.
Techniques
How to Test With a Screen Reader: A 20 Minute Website Pass
The smallest screen reader routine that finds real bugs: one reader, a handful of keys and a pass of about 20 minutes per page template.
Compliance & Law
ADA Title II Deadline Extended to 2027: What It Means
The Justice Department moved both web rule dates back a year. The standard, the exceptions and the older ADA duty stayed exactly where they were.
Techniques
Lighthouse Accessibility Score: Why 100 Is Not an Audit
What the score measures, the checks Google itself leaves out of it, and what to say when someone points at the green circle.
Compliance & Law
Does the European Accessibility Act Apply to Your Business?
A five-minute decision path through Directive (EU) 2019/882, with the exemptions stated as the law states them and what to put in writing.
Compliance & Law
Who Is Liable? Website Accessibility Clauses in Client Contracts
The four clauses a website build contract needs, what to ask your lawyer about each, and the promises never to put in writing.
Techniques
How to Test Keyboard Accessibility by Hand, Step by Step
Put the mouse away, press Tab, and work the page in order: the checks a scan cannot make for you, and the WCAG 2.2 criterion behind each one.
Check a client site against these guides
Audit any page against WCAG 2.2 AA for free and see every finding in about 30 seconds.