A plain-English guide to web accessibility, built to stay accurate.

How we keep this accurate

Accessibility law and standards keep moving, so accuracy is the whole job. Here's how we approach it.

No software to sell, no overlay to pitch

We don't sell an accessibility widget and we aren't paid to recommend one. That matters here, because the most heavily marketed “solutions” in this space, the automated overlay tools, do not make a website conformant. Automated testing catches only a fraction of WCAG issues; the rest need human review. We'll tell you that plainly, because nobody is paying us not to.

Where our facts come from

Every factual claim traces back to a primary source: the WCAG 2.2 specification from the W3C, the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) on EUR-Lex, the harmonised standard EN 301 549, the US Department of Justice's ADA Title II web rule, and the US Access Board on Section 508. We link the source so you can check our work.

How we keep it current

Key pages carry a visible “Last updated” date and, where it helps, a short changelog. When something material changes, a compliance deadline, a new WCAG version, a court ruling or an enforcement action, we revise the affected pages and send it to subscribers of The Accessibility Brief.

When the rules aren't settled

Sometimes the position is genuinely in flux. WCAG 3.0, for example, is still an early Working Draft and is not a compliance target, and an EN 301 549 update aligning to WCAG 2.2 is expected but not yet the harmonised benchmark. When that's the case, we say so plainly and mark it, rather than sound more certain than the facts allow.