15 Most Common Web Accessibility Issues (+Solutions)

Web accessibility issues are barriers that hinder individuals with impairments from accessing, navigating, or interacting with content on a website. Common web accessibility issues include inappropriate navigation links, inadequate marked-up data tables for screen readers, low color contrast, inaccessible forms, absence of alternative text for images, lack of structured focus order among interactive components, heading hierarchy, lack of keyboard accessibility, inaccessible documents, missing subtitles and captions to videos, missing WAI-ARIA attributes, ambiguous link text, failure to identify and fix errors, incorrect font and size, and same descriptive text for different resources. Solutions to these issues involve accurately assigning ARIA roles, using simple data tables, ensuring proper color contrast, enhancing the user-friendliness of forms, providing alt text for images, maintaining a logical focus order among interactive components, following correct heading structure, enabling keyboard accessibility, making documents accessible, adding subtitles and captions to videos, incorporating ARIA attributes, using informative link text, giving clear error messages, choosing the right font and size, and ensuring different alt-text descriptions for each resource.