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Publish an accessibility statement and audit your site for WCAG compliance

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An accessibility statement documents your genuine commitment to and current status on web accessibility, paired with an actual WCAG compliance audit identifying real gaps, both a legal risk mitigation step and a genuine usability improvement for real users with disabilities.

Accessibility lawsuits are a real and growing legal risk, and beyond legal exposure, genuine accessibility improvements make your site usable for a meaningfully larger audience.

The full picture

An accessibility statement paired with genuine WCAG compliance auditing addresses both a real legal compliance dimension in many jurisdictions and a genuine ethical commitment to ensuring your site is actually usable by visitors with disabilities — this extends the technical accessibility work discussed elsewhere in this broader strategy with formal documentation and comprehensive verification.

The genuine legal dimension here deserves real respect — accessibility litigation has become increasingly common in various jurisdictions, with businesses facing genuine legal consequences for websites that fail to meet applicable accessibility standards, making this both an ethical and a practical risk-management consideration rather than a purely optional enhancement.

WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) represents the established, detailed technical standard against which genuine accessibility compliance gets measured — comprehensive auditing against this actual standard, rather than informal or partial accessibility efforts, provides genuine confidence about your actual compliance level and identifies specific, concrete gaps warranting remediation.

The accessibility statement itself serves a genuine communicative function — publicly documenting your commitment to accessibility, your current compliance status, and how visitors can report accessibility issues they encounter, providing transparency about this commitment while also establishing a genuine, functional channel for identifying and addressing accessibility gaps your auditing process might have missed.

How to do it

  1. 1
    Run an automated accessibility audit first
    Catches a meaningful subset of issues, missing alt text, contrast problems, missing form labels.
  2. 2
    Conduct genuine manual testing too
    Automated tools catch roughly a third of real issues, manual keyboard navigation and screen reader testing surfaces the rest.
  3. 3
    Fix genuine issues found, prioritized by impact
    Address the most significant barriers first.
  4. 4
    Publish an honest accessibility statement
    Describing your actual current status and ongoing commitment, not overstating compliance you have not genuinely achieved.

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How you will know it is done

A genuine accessibility audit has been conducted, real issues addressed, and an honest accessibility statement is published.

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