Accessibility

Getting started with accessibility

Equal access for everyone.

What is accessibility?

Accessibility is making sure that all our colleagues and customers have equal access to our digital products and services. This is achieved by designing and building to industry standards which maintains quality and supports assistive technologies.

This guide links out to resources to help you design, build, write and test for accessibility.

An introduction

If you're new to accessibility, check out these guides from W3C:

Which standards do we follow?


Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)


WCAG is the international shared standard for web accessibility. Newskit core components are tested to a WCAG 2.1 Level AA standard.

WCAG 2.1External link


WAI ARIA


ARIA is a set of attributes you can add to HTML elements to make web content accessible to users with disabilities who use assistive technologies.

WAI ARIAExternal link


News UK Polices


Policies and guidelines (internal link)

Which laws must we comply with?

In the UK


UK Equality Act protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society. It covers the provision of digital services and therefore accessibility.


UK Equality Act on provision of servicesExternal link


In the US


The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in everyday activities.


The Americans with Disabilities ActExternal link

What’s next?

Design provides the foundations for accessibility.

Building to WCAG standards maintains quality and supports assistive technologies.

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