9 Free templates for accessibility work
Templates for accessibility work
Plain files you can download, change and use for anything: Markdown for documents, CSV for spreadsheets and trackers. Each page explains what goes in every part, with a worked example and the sources.
1 Plan and build
Plan and build
Before and while you build: what accessible means for each story and component, and how problems are reported.
- Acceptance criteria Given/When/Then criteria for common components, each tagged with its WCAG criterion, and a definition of done. MarkdownCSV Open the template
- Component spec What accessible means for one component, agreed before it is built: semantics, keyboard, focus, announcements and tests. Markdown Open the template
- Accessibility issue An issue template for reporting an accessibility problem, and a pull request checklist a reviewer ticks. Markdown Open the template
2 Testing
Testing
Checking what was built: the audit, the colors and the images.
- Accessibility audit report A report with a findings register, severity by user impact, results by criterion and retests, and a workbench to fill it in. MarkdownCSVWorkbench Open the template
- Contrast matrix Every pair of your palette's colors with its contrast ratio and what it passes, for text and for interface parts. CSV Open the template
- Alt text inventory Every image on a site, what it is for, and the text alternative it needs, with a guide to deciding. CSVMarkdown Open the template
3 Fixing
Fixing
Turning findings into planned, owned and retested fixes.
4 Publishing
Publishing
Telling people how accessible the site is, and where it is not.
Templates
How these templates work
Free, public domain and plain.
- Public domain. Every file is CC0 1.0: copy it, change it and use it for anything, with no credit needed.
- Plain text. Markdown and CSV in plain ASCII, so they open in any editor, spreadsheet, wiki or issue tracker.
- Versioned. Each template has a version and a date, and each file says where it came from.
- Checked. A test reads every file: the sizes, previews and columns on each page are the file's own.
- Not legal advice. Where a law is involved, the templates say what to check, not what the law requires of you.