WCAG Compliance and SEO – Do Both Now to Benefit Later
The interesting twist is that WCAG and SEO conventions and standards are intertwined in many key areas. Thus blogs and small website owners can be compliant and benefit from both.
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WCAG, or Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, is a set of standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to ensure digital content is accessible to people with disabilities. It provides principles, guidelines, and success criteria to make websites, applications, and other digital content more usable for individuals with visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities.
WCAG is structured around four key principles: content must be perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust (POUR). Adherence to WCAG improves usability for all users and helps organizations meet legal requirements for accessibility. Its current version, WCAG 2.2, continues to evolve for inclusivity.
The interesting twist is that WCAG and SEO conventions and standards are intertwined in many key areas. Thus blogs and small website owners can be compliant and benefit from both.
Web Accessibility testing tools are currently the hot topic for business and eCommerce sites.
If you’re selling a product or service, no matter how small, your website should be set up to accommodate potential customers who have special needs or disabilities.
There has been a slow boil effort making websites accessible for the disabled. For the past several years, websites outside of government it was thought of as “nice to have” especially for ecommerce, transportation, insurance and banking where current and potential …
Web accessibility is the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction and access to Internet websites by people with disabilities. When sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, generally all users have equal access to information and functionality.