Accessibility is a product quality practice that should be considered throughout design and development. A short review at each stage can catch barriers before they become expensive patterns across the site.
Navigate without a pointer
Use a keyboard to reach links, menus, buttons and form fields in a logical order. Make focus visible and ensure dialogs or menus do not trap people unexpectedly. If an action works only on hover, provide another way to use it.
Check information and feedback
Headings should describe the page structure. Link text should make sense out of context. Forms need persistent labels, helpful errors and a clear success state. Do not rely on color alone to distinguish required fields, status or chart values.
- Zoom and increase text size without losing content.
- Provide useful alternative text for informative images.
- Respect reduced-motion preferences for animation.
Test with assistive technology
Automated checks find some issues, but they cannot tell whether a task makes sense. Try a screen reader on important journeys and invite users with different needs into testing where possible. Record barriers by the task they prevent.
Make accessibility part of completion
Add checks to design review, component development and content publishing. Shared components can fix many pages at once, but each new flow still needs a task-based review. Assign ownership for issues instead of leaving them as a future cleanup list.
Practical next step
Review accessibility through real tasks and repeat the review as the product changes. A checklist starts the conversation; user testing completes it.
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