Accessible website

The Act on Digital Accessibility requires that actors within the public sector must have an accessibility-adapted digital service. This includes having a website that is also adapted for people with disabilities – something roughly every fifth person in Sweden has.

An accessible website must:

• Have a published accessibility statement
• Meet the criteria for level AA according to the international standard WCAG 2.1
• Give visitors the opportunity to report shortcomings with the website

An accessible website follows the guidelines both in terms of technology and content. For example, the images on your website must have alt data with image descriptions, so that users with impaired vision can have a screen reader read out what they represent.
The adaptation makes the website simpler and easier to navigate, faster and also more search engine optimized (SEO), which gives better ranking in the search results on Google, among others.

Authorities, municipalities and county councils, care and social care (public and private) as well as schools and similar care (public and private).

WCAG stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and is an international standard that accessible websites must follow. The guidelines can be achieved at three different levels: A, AA or AAA. Read more about WCAG here.

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