With a legislative change effective June 28, 2025, all websites and online stores must be accessible. Businesses should now ensure that digital content is accessible to everyone, regardless of individual limitations.

Despite its incredible size, the internet remains partially or entirely unusable for many. Physical and mental limitations prevent many people from benefiting from the vast diversity of the internet and the digital world because many websites are poorly designed for accessibility. But what exactly does web accessibility mean? In this article, we will show you how digital accessibility makes the internet accessible to all people, regardless of abilities or limitations.

What Does Web Accessibility Mean?

Through principles and technology, it is now possible to enable people with disabilities to access the internet without barriers. This requires adjustments in the design, development, and maintenance of your website so that everyone, regardless of their individual needs or limitations, can easily access its content.

Web accessibility means that despite the vast amount of information, people with disabilities often encounter barriers that hinder access to certain functions on the internet. These barriers can be:

• Perceptual Barriers: Difficulties in perceiving content (e.g., for people with visual impairments).
• Operability Barriers: Difficulties in operating the website (e.g., for people with motor impairments).
• Understanding Barriers: Difficulties in understanding the content (e.g., for people with cognitive impairments).

Introducing web accessibility aims to design websites so that everyone can use them independently and without assistance.

Web Accessibility Solutions

• Perceptibility: Content on a website must be made perceivable in at least one way and be clearly displayed, for example, by reading the text via an audio track or by ensuring sufficient visual contrasts.
• Operability: All interactive elements of the website – such as buttons or forms – and the navigation menu should be designed so that everyone can easily operate them. These elements should also be sized to be managed with simple mouse clicks.
• Understandability: Websites and their content must be built and visually designed to be clear and understandable so that as many people as possible can use them without difficulties. Layouts should be straightforward, and texts should be organized with clear structures.

• Robustness: The content of the website must function seamlessly with various aids such as screen readers or keyboard controls.

What Does an Accessible Website Look Like?

To make your website accessible on the web, you need to consider three areas: technology, design, and content.

• Technology: With various aids, we enable support for people with disabilities. For people with visual impairments, screen readers are necessary to capture the entire content of the page – including texts in documents or forms.
• Design: Design also plays a crucial role and should be adaptable. Users who have trouble reading should have the option to change the font size. Colors should also be adjustable, which can help people with color vision deficiencies (e.g., red-green color blindness).
• Content: To ensure that people with cognitive impairments can easily understand the content of your website, it should be clearly and understandably articulated. Graphics conveying essential information should be accompanied by alternative text. Videos and audio files must also be prepared so that they are accessible to everyone, for example, by including subtitles or transcripts, allowing those with visual impairments to rely on the audio explanation.

Act Now!

Start making your website accessible on the web today. By doing so, you not only comply with the requirements of the Web Accessibility Enhancement Act (BFSG) but also contribute to a more inclusive digital world.

Use our specialized software and our expertise to make your website accessible to everyone – whether they are people with disabilities or the users of tomorrow.

At Accessible Opportunities, we specialize in developing accessible digital solutions and ensuring that brands are accessible and experiential for everyone. It’s not just about colors, fonts, and emojis; it’s about designing the entire brand experience to be accessible on the web. Contact us today and make your website more accessible to everyone.