Web accessibility compliance means meeting WCAG 2.2 and regional laws like ADA, EAA, and Section 508 so your site works for everyone. This 2026 guide covers the standards, legal landscape, and how to evaluate your site.
70 current web accessibility resources for 2026: WCAG 2.1/2.2 standards, testing tools (axe, WAVE, Pa11y, Lighthouse), DOJ Title II and EAA law, training, and more.
Accessibility is a legal floor and a product-quality ceiling. This 2026 guide covers the practical standards — WCAG 2.2 AA, alt text, semantic structure, accessible forms, color contrast, captions, keyboard navigation — mapped to specific success criteria with the new 2.2 additions.
Roughly 1 in 4 US adults lives with some form of disability. This 2026 guide covers how accessibility affects users in each major disability category — vision, hearing, motor, cognitive, speech — what assistive technologies they rely on, and which WCAG 2.2 practices make your site usable for them.
Federal ADA Title III web accessibility lawsuits climbed from ~800 in 2017 to over 4,600 in 2023, and the DOJ just (April 20, 2026) extended Title II compliance deadlines by a year. Here’s the 2017-2026 recap — courts, the DOJ, the FTC, and what site owners should do now.
