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An EAA-compliant website ensures that all users, including people with disabilities, can navigate and use your site without limitations.
Accessibility is not only a legal requirement but also improves user experience, boosts your website’s search engine ranking, and makes your content available to a broader audience.
By following key accessibility guidelines, you help ensure that your website remains easy to use for everyone, regardless of their individual abilities.
You can find Onepage’s statement on accessibility here: Statement on Accessibility
1. Use clear and easy-to-understand text
Why this matters:
A well-structured and easy-to-read text is essential for an accessible website. People with visual impairments, dyslexia, or cognitive disabilities rely on clear content to understand it without difficulty.
Even users accessing your site under challenging conditions, for example, on small screens or in bright sunlight, benefit from clearly readable text.
Recommendations:
Use a legible font from the selection provided in Onepage. Avoid decorative or overly ornate fonts, as they can make reading more difficult.
Ensure sufficient contrast between text and background, at least a ratio of 4.5:1 for regular text and 3:1 for large text, so users with visual impairments can easily read your content.
Use our hierarchical heading structure (H1 to H6) to organize your text clearly. This improves readability and helps users who rely on screen readers to navigate your website more easily.
2. Use alt text for images
Why this matters:
People with visual impairments use screen readers to access website content. Without alternative text (alt text), they can’t understand what an image represents. Alt text is essential for making visual information accessible, and it also helps improve your website’s visibility in search engines.
Recommendations:
Add a clear and descriptive alt text for each image in the image settings in Onepage. Keep the description short but meaningful; it should convey the content and purpose of the image.
Avoid using images that contain text, as screen readers can’t interpret embedded text. Instead, place real text directly in your page content.
For purely decorative images, leave the alt attribute empty (
alt=""), so that screen readers can skip them and users aren’t distracted by unnecessary information.
3. Use clear and descriptive link texts
Why this matters:
Many screen reader users navigate specifically through the links on a page. If links are phrased generically, like “Click here” or “Learn more”, they lack context. This makes orientation more difficult and navigation unnecessarily complicated.
Recommendations:
Avoid vague link text like “Click here” or “Learn more.” Instead, clearly indicate where the link leads or what to expect there.
Examples:
Rather than saying “Click here,” say something like “View my portfolio,” so it’s immediately clear that the link leads to work samples.
Replace “Learn more” with something like “Learn more about my consulting services” to make the purpose of the link obvious.Also ensure that links are visually distinguishable, for example, by using color, underlining, or other styling elements you can apply through Onepage’s design settings.
4. Make multimedia content accessible
Why this matters:
For people with hearing impairments, subtitles or transcripts are essential to fully understand video content. Blind or visually impaired users benefit from audio descriptions that verbally convey visual information. Without such aids, important content remains inaccessible to many people.
Recommendations:
Provide videos with subtitles or a transcript so that hearing-impaired visitors can easily follow the content.
If necessary, include sign language interpreters or audio descriptions in videos to make key content accessible to all users.
Avoid autoplaying media content, or at least make sure users can pause or stop playback at any time.
5. Make forms accessible for all users
Why this matters:
Forms are a key part of many websites, for example, for contact, inquiries, or submitting data. If they aren’t accessible, they can be difficult or even impossible to use for people with disabilities. This can lead to frustration and may prevent users from interacting with your website altogether.
Recommendation:
Make sure all form fields are clearly and understandably labeled so users know exactly what information they need to enter.
6. Pay attention to color accessibility in your design
Why this matters:
People with color vision deficiencies may have difficulty distinguishing certain colors or may not be able to tell them apart at all. If color is used as the only way to convey information, there’s a risk that important content will be missed.
Not every color scheme is automatically accessible. Onepage gives you the flexibility to adjust colors individually. If a suggested set doesn’t meet the required contrast standards, you can always adapt it to make it accessible.
Recommendations:
Don’t rely on color alone. Combine color indicators with icons or descriptive text to convey information clearly.
Ensure a strong contrast between text and background so that content remains readable even with limited color perception.
Use testing tools to make sure your website is easy to understand and navigate for all users.
7. Integrate a tool to support accessibility
Why this matters:
To best support your website visitors, we recommend integrating an accessibility support tool. These tools allow users with different needs to activate features that improve their experience and access to your content.
In the following recommendations, you'll find a few tools that you can integrate into your Onepage site.
Recommendations:
8. Create an Accessibility Statement
Why this matters:
A publicly available accessibility statement is not only legally advisable but also clearly demonstrates that your business takes responsibility. It helps reduce legal risks during transition phases, builds trust with regulatory bodies, and highlights your commitment to inclusion and equal opportunity.
Even if your website is not yet fully accessible, the statement shows that the topic is taken seriously and that there is a clear plan for gradual improvement. This makes your efforts toward accessible digital offerings transparent and credible.
Recommendation:
Use an external tool such as the W3C Statement Generator or Siteimprove Generator to create your accessibility statement, and add it to your website as a link in the footer.
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