May 16th, 2024 is the 13th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! GAAD helps promote the conversation around creating accessible digital spaces to support the more than one billion people across the world who have disabilities or impairments.

What Makes a Page Digitally Accessible?

A 2020 study by WebAIM found that of over one million home pages analyzed, 98.1% failed at least one WCAG 2.0 compliance metric.

Pages today should support a variety of disabilities and impairments, such as:

Making Donations More Accessible

Since 2021, Engaging Networks has supported the drive towards making the internet more accessible for all, with easy-to-use templates to help you quickly create landing pages to support more donors.

Three templates were created in collaboration with Cornershop Creative to help you achieve WCAG 2.1 AA compliance and improve equitable access, UI for all users, and increase website submissions on your Engaging Networks-hosted pages.

Accessible-Ready Template 1 

Accessible-Ready Template 1 with included alt text fields

This template includes:

Accessible-Ready Template 2

Visual accessibility tool template

This template includes:

Accessible-Ready Template 3

Multi use donation page with script readers

This template includes:

For more tips and tricks to ensure your pages are accessible, watch the webinar with a full transcript here.