Accessible Content

Follow these accessibility best practices to ensure the content you create on your website provides an inclusive, user-friendly experience for all.

The WordPress theme Modern Tribe implements on your website plays a huge part in ensuring proper styling and accessibility on the frontend of your website, but as a content creator, you should also be following style, performance, and accessibility best practices when publishing content to ensure your audiences are getting a rock solid experience that is accessible and performant. Rest assured, the theme and tools we provide you make this possible.

Introduction to Accessibility

Accessibility is the practice of ensuring that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that everyone, including people with disabilities, can use them. Accessibility includes different types of disabilities such as auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual impairments. 

Additionally, accessibility includes people who use various devices with different screen sizes, temporarily disabled people, people with situational disabilities like bright sunlight or being unable to listen to particular audio, and people with slow internet or limited bandwidth. 

It’s critical content creators advocate for and create accessible content so everyone is able to access your organization’s content, and the benefits of doing so are immense:

  1. It’s the right thing to do. Creating accessible experiences promotes equality and inclusivity, and improves your organization’s reputation.
  2. It can increase your reach with your audiences. By creating accessible content, you can reach a broader audience.
  3. It reduces legal liability. Organizations can face legal action for inaccessible websites. For a current list of laws by country, see International Laws & Policies.
  4. It improves user experience. An accessible brand creates a better user experience for everyone.

Accessibility and WordPress

Although the Block Editor has introduced challenges, WordPress continues to be regarded as one of the most accessible web publishing tools available and making constant improvements. 

The frontend of the website (where visitors interact with your website) inherits much of its accessibility from the WordPress theme and plugins used, but it’s critical the content creators managing and publishing content are responsible for implementing accessibility best practices in their work.