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Ensuring Site Accessibility: Importance and Considerations

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The community members discuss the importance of website accessibility. One member suggests that while a website doesn't need to be fully accessible to function, it's important for SEO and user experience. They provide information about WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards and a resource to get started. Another member asks about the legal requirements for accessibility, but the responses indicate that there are no clear legal requirements, at least in Switzerland. The community members are unsure about the legal situation in America.

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SSara Margolies
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How important is it to make sure a site is 100% accessible? What do I need to be careful about?

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SSofian Bettayeb

Hi ,
Well, it depends on your clients and their users. Technically, a website doesn't have to be accessible to work.

It start to be a topic when you want to optimize for SEO. Google consider a good UX is a website accessible to most users.

If your client want to go further and make a website accessible, there are standards: (WCAG 2.1 AA)
https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/

Here is a great webflow ressource to get started.
https://webflow.com/accessibility/checklist#start

SSara Margolies

Thank you @U07JL1SM085. But what about the legal part?

SSofian Bettayeb

From where I'm from (switzerland) there are no "legal" part, it's just a recommendation to make website accessible. I believe some institutions have accessibility requirements to meet but on my side, I never heard of any law. Sorry, can't help you here.

SSara Margolies

Are there accessibility legalities in America?

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