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title: "Accessibility Fundamentals Overview"
nav_title: "Overview"
lang: en # Change "en" to the translated-language shortcode
last_updated: 2023-08-30 # Keep the date of the English version
last_updated: 2025-02-17 # Keep the date of the English version

# translators: # remove from the beginning of this line and the lines below: "# " (the hash sign and the space)
# - name: "Jan Doe" # Replace Jan Doe with translator name
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- [Video Introduction to Web Accessibility and W3C Standards](/videos/standards-and-benefits/) 4-minutes {% include image.html src="video.svg" alt="" class="icon" %}

[[Accessibility: It's About People]](/people/)
: Explains the people aspect of accessibility and the role of accessibility in diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI). Links to:
: Explains the people aspect of accessibility. Links to:
- [Web Accessibility Perspectives: Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone](/perspective-videos/) - videos that illustrate **_Accessibility: essential for some, useful for all_**. Ten 1-minute videos, and a 7-minute compilation. {% include image.html src="video.svg" alt="" class="icon" %}
- [[How People with Disabilities Use the Web]](/people-use-web/) - introduces stories of web users; diverse abilities and barriers; tools and techniques; and videos that illustrate **_Accessibility: It's about people._** {% include image.html src="video.svg" alt="" class="icon" %}
- [Older Users and Web Accessibility](/older-users/) resources
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title: "Accessibility: It’s About People"
nav_title: "Accessibility: It’s About People"
lang: en # Change "en" to the translated-language shortcode
last_updated: 2023-03-03 # Keep the date of the English version
last_updated: 2025-02-17 # Keep the date of the English version
description: Videos, personas, and user stories of how people with disabilities use digital technology.

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{% include image.html src="people/still-dog-outside.png" alt="" class="normal right" %}

Accessibility is about ensuring that digital technology is usable by people with disabilities. Checklists, standards, and laws are important tools to help achieve accessibility — yet sometimes they get the focus instead of the fundamental goal of accessibility: meeting the needs of disabled people in the real world. Accessibility is an important aspect of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Accessibility is about ensuring that digital technology is usable by people with disabilities. Checklists, standards, and laws are important tools to help achieve accessibility — yet sometimes they get the focus instead of the fundamental goal of accessibility: meeting the needs of disabled people in the real world.

Many WAI resources cover the organizational, technical, and standards aspects of accessibility. The following WAI resources help you understand the **people** aspects:

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