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Guidance: Doing a basic accessibility check if you cannot do a detailed one

Government Digital Service

September 30
12:11 2024

The first step towards meeting the accessibility requirements involves evaluating how accessible your website is.

You should only use this document to help you do your evaluation if you do not have an accessibility expert in your organisation and cannot pay for a third party auditor to do the check for you. Before you start, check whether you should be doing a basic evaluation, or whether you should do a detailed evaluation instead.

Once youve done your evaluation, youll know what needs fixing. Youll then need to work out what its reasonable for you to fix now and what can wait until a later date.

Updates to this page

Published 22 August 2019
Last updated 30 September 2024 +show all updates
  1. Section about when GDS is monitoring the new success criteria in WCAG 2.2 has been removed

  2. Updated guidance on how to do a basic accessibility check including the new success criteria in WCAG 2.2.

  3. First published.

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