Guidelines

When you start looking into how to do it, there’s an overwhelming amount of accessibility guidance out there.

Guidelines

Most guidelines that exist are based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), as they are the main, comprehensive, global set of guidelines named in legislation. But they are rather long and complex, so many organisations create their own, based on WCAG.

Our guidelines exist for the main roles involved in digital accessibility within Skyscanner, which we link to below. Some of these guidelines live on our Design System site called Backpack, which we link out to. Other guidelines are on pages built into this site.

Skyscanner guidelines

External resources

These are the external guidelines we also use:

1. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) (version 2.1, Level AA)
2. BBC's Mobile Accessibility Guidelines (suitable for web & apps too)
3. MDN web docs for accessibility (good to search for specific details)
1. Apple's iOS Accessibility Guidelines
1. Google’s Build accessible apps

And here are some handy tutorials:

1. Developing for web accessibility
2. Any tutorial by Rob Dodson (all super quick & easy to understand!)
1. iOS Accessibility: Getting Started
1. Make your Android app accessible