Best Practices for Making a Wagtail Site as Accessible as Possible

Wagtail is a popular Python-based open-source content management system built on Django. This talk focuses on best practices for making Wagtail sites accessible, emphasizing how developers can set up editors for success. It covers crucial areas like semantic markup in templates, configuring Wagtail's accessibility checker, enforcing proper heading hierarchy, promoting good alt text usage, employing ARIA labels for link context, and providing timely help to editors. The presentation highlights how Wagtail itself is committed to accessibility, with features like the built-in accessibility checker and ongoing community efforts to improve the platform and the sites built with it.