Resources

This is my personal list of helpful guides, tools, and other things. I've used a lot of them as sources of information. I hope to focus mostly on other "small web" accessibility guides as I discover them, but there will be some "corporate" stuff here too. Please let me know if any of the links are broken!

"Official" Guides

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) - These are the guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). A lot of other guides are going to reference WCAG. These guidelines aren't the be-all and end-all of web accessibility, but they're good to be familiar with. (Don't worry about reading all of it, though; it's very long and very technical.)
How to Meet WCAG (Quick Reference) - A checklist put out by the W3C. It's still really long and really technical ("quick reference" is a lie), but it's a bit easier to digest than reading the entire WCAG.

Accessibility Guides on Neocities

Turns out I'm not the only person doing this! Here's a few folks to check out:

A Field Guide to Web Accessibility - An excellent resource. It concisely explains the principles of web accessiblility, goes over a few of the basics (good to use as a checklist!), and has links to a bunch of other useful things.
Solaria's Web Making Guides - This person has a number of guides, not all of them focused on accessibility. Here's the ones that are:
- Web Accessibility - This one's pretty comprehensive and also has another list of resources!
- Common Accessibility Problems
- Dyslexia Design Tips

Other Guides

Access Guide by Alex Chen - Full of nice tips, ordered by topic. Also has a glossary and an awesome accessibility checklist. It hasn't been updated since 2021, though.
You Should Care About Accessibility - Short guide with a LOT of helpful links.

Tools

Before I start the list, I want to say that no automated testing tool will ever be able to catch everything. A perfect score from an automatic test doesn't mean your site is accessible. They can still be useful, though, and they'll catch a lot of things that are easy to fix.

WAVE - An automated accessibility testing tool. You can use it on their website without installing anything. They also have free browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
Axe DevTools - Another tool for automated accessibility testing. It's a browser extension with free and paid versions. The free version is enough for small websites. It's a very good checker, but they recently started putting AI stuff in it, so stay away if that's an issue.
WebAIM Color Contrast Checker
W3C HTML Validator

Articles, Essays, and Blog Posts

These aren't guides so much as interesting things to read. Mostly written by disabled people about their experiences. Note: My including a piece here doesn't mean that I agree with everything they say.