Website Accessibility Improvement
Making a site usable with keyboards, screen readers and low vision, in practice not just in audit.
How do you make a website accessible?
You ensure the site works with a keyboard alone, has sufficient colour contrast, provides meaningful alternative text, uses correct heading structure and form labels, and works with screen readers. Automated tools catch perhaps a third of issues. The rest requires actually operating the site with a keyboard and a screen reader.
The problem this solves
Accessibility is usually treated as a checklist run at the end. The result passes automated tests and remains unusable for the people it was meant to help.
Signs this applies to you
- The site cannot be navigated without a mouse.
- Focus is invisible when tabbing through.
- Images have alt text that repeats the file name or the keyword.
- Custom dropdowns and modals trap keyboard users.
How we approach it
- Audit with automated tools and with real keyboard and screen reader use.
- Fix structural issues first — headings, landmarks, form labels.
- Ensure every interactive element is reachable and operable by keyboard.
- Correct contrast and make focus states clearly visible.
- Write alternative text that describes the image's purpose.
- Give the team patterns so new work stays accessible.
What you get
Included in the work
- Accessibility audit
- Structural fixes
- Keyboard operability fixes
- Contrast and focus corrections
- Alt text guidance
- Accessible component patterns
What changes afterwards
- A site usable by more people
- Clearer structure that also helps search engines
- Patterns that keep future work accessible
Services this draws on
Website Accessibility Improvement — frequently asked questions
Requirements vary by country and sector, and obligations on public bodies and certain businesses are increasing. Beyond compliance, an inaccessible site excludes customers.
They are widely criticised by accessibility practitioners and disabled users, and they do not fix underlying problems. Fixing the site itself is the honest route.
Indirectly. Proper headings, alt text, semantic markup and link clarity help search engines understand pages, and they are the same things accessibility requires.
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