Accessibility guidelines

SF.gov is built to meet accessibility guidelines for the City, the Federal government, and website best practice.

That means we take care of the technical side of accessibility, like color contrast and font sizes. But editors and writers still need to think about accessibility when making content. We make our pages accessible by:

• Page structure

• Writing simply and directly

• Getting all vital content and services translated by humans, and keeping those translations up to date.

In writing, you need to consider people who are:

• Non native English speakers

• Dyslexic

• Neurodivergent

• Older

• Less used to computers

• On smaller screens

• Distracted

• Stressed

• Skimming

It's a lot to keep track of. But if you follow our writing guidelines you can make sure that everyone understands your web content.