# What is web accessibility? Canonical page: https://unremarkable.me/what-is-accessibility/ > **Design fiction.** Unremarkable is written as if it were a business. It isn't taking work yet. What that means: https://unremarkable.me/as-if/ Menu: - [Accessibility statement](https://unremarkable.me/accessibility/) - [Home](https://unremarkable.me/) - [How it works](https://unremarkable.me/how-it-works/) - [Prices](https://unremarkable.me/prices/) - [About](https://unremarkable.me/about/) - [Start](https://unremarkable.me/start/) A website should work for the people who come to it. That includes people who read with their eyes, listen with a screen reader, use braille, enlarge the text, or navigate without a mouse. Accessibility shapes the design, the words and how everything works. The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) introduces it like this: ## An introduction from W3C WAI > When websites and web tools are properly designed and coded, people with disabilities can use them. However, currently many sites and tools are developed with accessibility barriers that make them difficult or impossible for some people to use. > > Making the web accessible benefits individuals, businesses, and society. International web standards define what is needed for accessibility. Reproduced unchanged from [Introduction to Web Accessibility](https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-intro/), W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Edited by Shawn Lawton Henry; developed by the Education and Outreach Working Group. Updated 3 February 2026. Copyright © 2026 World Wide Web Consortium. ## What that means at Unremarkable People come to a website to do something: find an answer, choose a service, book a place. They need to be able to complete that task using the devices and ways of reading that work for them. We build accessibility into the design and development of a site. Every kind of page is listened to by someone who uses a screen reader every day. We also check things that listening alone cannot establish, including text contrast and how the layout responds when text is enlarged. Screen reader testing is one part of that work. Accessibility also involves people with hearing, movement, speech, cognitive and other disabilities. One person's experience cannot stand for everyone's. Our approach brings together WCAG, the international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and [Zero Information Casualty](https://zeroinformationcasualty.org/), the standard we build to so that published information reaches people however they read it. You can read about this site's implementation, testing and fixes in our [accessibility statement](https://unremarkable.me/accessibility/). ## Explore further These resources come from W3C WAI: - [Introduction to Web Accessibility](https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-intro/) explains what accessibility means, why it matters and what making a website accessible involves. - [How People with Disabilities Use the Web](https://www.w3.org/WAI/people-use-web/) explores people's experiences, the barriers they encounter and the tools they use. - [Accessibility Principles](https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-principles/) introduces the principles behind accessible websites and applications. ## Licence for the W3C extract The quotation above is third-party material. It is covered by the W3C Software and Document License, separately from Unremarkable's Creative Commons licence. Its reproduction does not imply endorsement by W3C or WAI. 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