Accessible Web Design

Accessible web design refers both to the practice of designing webpages that meet accessibility standards (such as WCAG) and — in a second, increasingly important sense — to the practice of enabling people with disabilities to act as web designers themselves, not just as testers or content entrants. The second sense matters because mainstream graphical design tools (Figma, Google Sites, WordPress, Squarespace) assume visual perception for layout work, leaving blind and low-vision designers reliant on sighted collaborators or code-only workflows. Research tools like TangibleSite, TangibleGrid, DesignChecker, and VizXpress demonstrate that tangible, haptic, and audio modalities can give blind designers direct control over spatial composition, not just textual content.