WCAG

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, the standard for making sites usable by people with disabilities. Much of it helps agents too. See accessibility work is agent readiness work.

Why it matters

WCAG work and agent readiness overlap heavily: clear labels, real buttons and well-structured pages help people with disabilities and AI agents alike. If you already invest in accessibility, you're partway to being agent-ready, and the business case for both gets stronger together. Many agent fixes can be planned as part of existing accessibility work.

Read the guide Accessibility work is agent readiness work Many browser agents read pages through the accessibility tree. Where WCAG and agent readiness overlap, where they differ, and how to make fixes pay twice. Read it

More terms in finding the way

• Accessibility tree The structured view of a page that screen readers and many browser agents use: its headings, links, buttons and form fields, with their names.
• Accessible name The name a button, link or field has in the accessibility tree, from its text, label or aria-label.
• Landmarks Labels for the main regions of a page, such as header, navigation, main content and footer, that let agents skip straight to what they need.
• Overlay Anything that covers the page, such as a cookie banner, newsletter pop-up or chat window.

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