Web Accessibility Content Review
April 24, 2026 | Emily Lapayowker
Digital accessibility is an important process that makes websites, files like Word documents or PDFs, and other digital products accessible to people with disabilities, as well as making these products more user-friendly overall. There are several different standards to meet when making your web content accessible.
This guide provides a comprehensive checklist for ensuring that web content and digital products are accessible, as laid out in the 2024 ADA Title II Web Rule, and hit the current standard of WCAG 2.1.
Get the Checklist (automatic Word download)
Special thanks to the PHIG team at the Alaska Department of Health and ASTHO staff member Heidi Westermann, MPH, for contributing to this resource.
This work was supported by funds made available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Center for STLT Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce, through OE22-2203: Strengthening U.S. Public Health Infrastructure, Workforce, and Data Systems grant. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.
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