Summary: Accessibility removes barriers so more people can take part in everyday activities, spaces, and communication.

Who it helps: Everyone who creates, builds, shares, maintains, or provides spaces, content, products, events, or services.

Additional benefits: Accessible design choices make things easier to use, understand, and navigate for everyone.

Accessibility helps people with disabilities and older adults participate fully in daily life. Barriers can exist in physical spaces, digital content, communication, or processes. When these barriers are present, people with disabilities can be excluded or forced to rely on others for extra help.

Accessibility supports people with permanent disabilities, temporary injuries, and in everyday situations like noisy environments, bright sunlight, or limited mobility. Because barriers can appear anywhere, accessibility is a shared responsibility.

If you build, write, host, share, organize, maintain, or provide something, you influence whether others can use it. When you choose to do so accessibly, you help others use your product too.

Learn more in Your Role in Accessibility on ta11y.

Action:

Start by asking yourself:

• What is one thing I create, use, host, or share regularly?

• Could someone with a disability use or understand it easily?

• Can people navigate, see, hear, or understand it without help?

• If it is not working for someone, how can I change it or provide an alternative?

You do not need to fix everything. Improving one interaction, space, or message helps everyone.