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WordPress Accessibility: A Practical Guide

WordPress powers a huge share of small-business sites, and accessibility depends heavily on your theme, plugins, and content habits.

Start with an accessible theme

Choose a theme tagged "accessibility-ready" in the WordPress directory — it has been checked for keyboard support, contrast, and skip links. A bad theme bakes in problems site-wide.

Mind the page builders

Drag-and-drop builders (Elementor, Divi, WPBakery) often emit non-semantic markup and skipped headings. Check the output, not just the editor preview.

Content habits

Add alt text in the media library, use real heading blocks in order, and avoid "click here" links. Avoid accessibility "overlay" plugins — they don’t fix the underlying code and have drawn lawsuits.

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