5 Keys to Accessible Web Typography

I wrote about fluid web typography in last month’s blog post and I realised that a lot of the popular implementation techniques come with accessibility issues. So I wanted to go back and revisit the basics and the best practices of accessible web typography.

This article was originally published on the Better Web Type blog.

I think it’s safe to claim that a large part of website accessibility falls on typography, after all, the web still is 95% typography. Viewers come to a website to read its content or just to find the specific information they’re looking for. And most of that information and most of the content is communicated through text. This is one of the few constants on the web that hasn’t changed through the years. So how do we make sure that everyone can read the content of our website? And by everyone, I mean absolutely everyone. This includes people with impaired vision, reading disorders, colour blindness or anything that can often prevent them from reading comfortably.

Designers and developers of websites often forget about these people or come up with excuses like “blind people don’t drive cars so they don’t need to shop for one on our website”…