The web is slowly getting more accessible—but not fast enough. Each year, WebAIM scans one million home pages for accessibility issues. I’ve pulled the biggest insights from the 2024 and 2025 reports so you can see what’s improving, what’s not, and what it means for your website.
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Color contrast in the real world: strategies for accessible text with complex backgrounds
Picking an accessible background color for text is straightforward, but the art of good color contrast gets more nuanced for backdrops with multiple colors and other visual effects. Here’s how to ensure your text and background elements stand out from each other and avoid the most common web accessibility barrier.
A non-techie’s guide to choosing accessible color combinations
Insufficient contrast between text and background colors is the most common accessibility issue on the web. However, choosing accessible color combinations doesn’t have to be difficult. Here’s a step-by-step process for doing so that requires zero technical knowledge.
Here’s a simple recipe for good image alt text
Answering three simple questions about an image can make it easy to create alternative text that’s meaningful and relevant.