Making sure the web is completely accessible to everyone is a shared responsibility. Here's a brief overview of possible steps to take (and steps already taken) to ensure no one gets left behind.
| 🏢 Presspage is responsible for |
| • Keyboard accessibility across all platform components, with a logical tab order |
| • Focus management and visible focus indicators |
• Semantic HTML (such as header, footer, nav, article tags) and page landmark structure |
| • Component behaviour (buttons, forms, dropdowns, modals) |
| • Alt text fields and media accessibility tools |
| • Automatically adding alt text to images uploaded to the Asset Manager |
| • Target size and spacing for interactive elements |
| • Default colour contrast compliance |
| • Zoom and reflow behaviour |
| • "Skip to main content" links |
| • Providing a sitemap as an extra navigation option |
• Using role="presentation" where appropriate for table elements |
| 🤝 Shared responsibility |
| • Colour contrast — platform provides accessible defaults; client applies brand colours |
| • Heading structure — platform supports it; client applies it correctly in content |
| • Media accessibility — platform provides tools; client adds alt text, captions and transcripts |
| • Page composition and layout choices |
| 👤 Client is responsible for |
| • Writing meaningful alt text for all non-decorative images |
| • Adding captions to video content (our video module supports VTT captioning) |
| • Adding transcripts to audio or video content |
| • Making sure audio and video are not set to autoplay |
| • Ensuring brand colours maintain minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio for text |
| • Using clear headings and meaningful link text in editorial content |
| • Ensuring uploaded documents are accessible |
| • Providing text descriptions for infographics and complex visuals |
| • Writing accessible content and avoiding unnecessary jargon |
Presspage does not verify the uploaded content for accessibility.
For end users, Presspage recommends keeping your browser up to date for best performance.
Presspage takes accessibility seriously and is always open to suggestions on how to improve the accessibility of our newsrooms, either by updating our platform as a whole or by making newsroom-specific changes to their template. Our aim is to design the platform to be compatible with the WCAG 2.2 (AA) standard, ensuring an inclusive experience for all users.
Found something that does not work as expected? We want to hear from you. All accessibility reports are reviewed and used to improve the platform.