Is Your Website ADA Compliant? The 2026 Guide
What U.S. website accessibility law really requires — no certificate, no overlay, no single rulebook.
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Plain-English explainers on WCAG, ADA & EAA compliance, lawsuit risk, and the fixes that actually work. Written to be useful, not to sell you a widget.
What U.S. website accessibility law really requires — no certificate, no overlay, no single rulebook.
Live since June 2025 with no grace period — and it reaches U.S. companies selling into the EU.
Nearly 4,000 filings in 2025. Who gets targeted, how demand letters work, and how to avoid one.
Why widgets don’t make you compliant, and what the $1M FTC fine against accessiBe means.
Every Level A and AA success criterion in plain English, grouped by how you fix it.
The WCAG ratios, what counts as large text, non-text contrast, and how to fix failures.
The most common accessibility issue on the web — and one of the easiest to get right.
Selling to government means proving accessibility — how 508, VPATs, and conformance reports work.
What to include, how to word conformance claims safely, and where to publish it.
How to assemble a real testing stack — automated, manual, and monitoring — without one-click “compliance”.
Why stores get sued and what actually drives a Shopify store’s accessibility — most of it is in your hands.
Where issues really come from — theme, page builder, plugins, content — and how to fix them.
What the Accessibility Wizard does and doesn’t cover, and how to make a Wix site WCAG compliant.
Polished templates aren’t the same as an accessible site — what Squarespace handles and what’s on you.
Real control over markup means accessibility is mostly up to you — here’s how to get it right.
Looking for the standard itself? Browse the full WCAG 2.2 success-criteria reference — every Level A & AA criterion explained one by one.