What we aim for
We build to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, across churchwideweb.com, the church dashboard and CWW Studio, and every design a church can choose.
Accessibility is part of how each design and screen is made and checked, not a separate mode.
What is built in
Pages use proper headings, landmarks and labels, so screen readers and other assistive technology can find their way around.
Everything can be reached and used with a keyboard, with a clearly visible focus outline.
Text and buttons in every design meet contrast guidelines against their backgrounds, and secondary text is checked so it stays readable.
Movement is kept to a minimum, and pages that move stop moving when your device asks for reduced motion. Anything that moves on its own can be paused.
Every photo has a place for a description for people who can’t see it, and the AI assistant can write those descriptions for a church to check.
Pages work at any screen size and at up to 200% zoom without losing content.
What churches can do
Describe every photo you add, especially ones that carry meaning, such as a poster with service times. Your dashboard shows photos still missing a description.
Write headings that say what follows, and link text that says where it goes (“Read the Easter programme”, not “click here”).
If you change a design’s colours, keep text dark on light backgrounds (or light on dark) so it stays easy to read.
When you share a video, add a transcript or turn on captions where the video service offers them.
Known limitations
Videos embedded from YouTube or Vimeo use those services’ own players, so their controls and captions are theirs.
Documents a church uploads, such as PDFs of bulletins, are only as accessible as the files themselves.
Content each church writes and uploads is theirs; we give them the tools and prompts above, but we can’t check every word or picture.
Tell us about a problem
If something on churchwideweb.com, in the dashboard or on a church website we host is hard to use with your device or assistive technology, write to support@churchwideweb.com. Tell us the page and what happened, and we’ll reply and work on a fix. If it’s on a church’s website, we’ll pass it on to that church too.