PageKiwiWebsite accessibility
Up to 1 in 4 adults in the US has a disability (CDC). Many use a screen reader, a keyboard or zoom to get around the web. An accessible website lets them buy from you, book with you or pay their water bill, and it helps you get closer to meeting the ADA.
Check the official rules. Rules and dates change, so check them with the official sources before you rely on them: ADA.gov (the US Department of Justice), the W3C's WCAG pages and Section508.gov. PageKiwi helps you find problems and get closer to meeting the rules. It can't promise a website meets them, it isn't legal advice, and we can't take responsibility for decisions made from it.
Where to start
- Run Accessibility Check on your home page. It reads the page's code for the problems that stop people most often, and says what to fix.
- Add PageKiwi for Chrome (beta) and click the kiwi on your pages. It checks the page as it's drawn, color contrast included, and shows it as keyboard, zoom and color-blind users meet it.
- Fix the pictures: Picture Check finds the ones with no description, and the Alt text writer drafts them.
- Try your site with only the keyboard: press Tab to move, Enter to click. Can you reach and use everything?
- Read what the law asks, below, and add a page saying how people can tell you when something doesn't work for them.
Tools that help
- Accessibility Check
Missing labels, links and buttons with no words, zoom turned off, headings out of order and more.
- PageKiwi for Chrome
The page as it's drawn: contrast, Tab order, color blindness, 200% zoom and the headings a screen reader hears.
- Picture Check
Pictures with no description, or a file name for one.
- Alt text writer
A description of your photo for screen readers, written for you.
- Color check
Is your text dark enough to read? If not, the nearest color that works.
- Readability
Plain words help everyone, including people with learning disabilities.
- Full Check
Accessibility alongside links, pictures and facts, in one report.
What the law asks
- ADA website rules for small businesses
What the ADA asks of a business website, who gets sued, and what to fix first.
- The ADA rule for town, city and county websites
WCAG 2.1 AA by April 2027 or April 2028, the exceptions, and where to start.
- WCAG explained
The standard the law points to, without the jargon.
- Write good alt text
Five rules for describing pictures.
PageKiwi's own accessibility
We aim for WCAG 2.2 AA on this site. Every week we scan every page for accessibility problems and publish the result: our own accessibility report. If something here doesn't work for you, let us know.