Make your website or app accessible and publish an accessibility statement
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Learn how to check if your website or mobile app is accessible.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Learn how to check if your website or mobile app is accessible. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Deadlines
- 1. Decide how to check the accessibility problems on your website or mobile app
- Method 1. Do a detailed audit yourself
- Method 2. Pay a third party to do a detailed audit for you
- Method 3. Do a basic check if a detailed WCAG 2.2 check is a disproportionate burden
- Using a combination of methods
- Assessing if a detailed check is a disproportionate burden
- 2. Make a plan to fix any accessibility problems
- Create a roadmap
- Things you might not need to fix
- 3. Publish your accessibility statement
- 4. Make sure new features are accessible
- Get support or advice
Source and licence
Government Digital Service
AttributionGovernment Digital Service, ‘Make your website or app accessible and publish an accessibility statement’ (updated 27 September 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026