Accessibility is a quality requirement for any platform used to research, compare and act.
We help industrial businesses design and develop accessible websites that stay usable across navigation, product filters, documents, tables, forms and responsive interfaces. The work combines practical remediation with a system that stops future changes from reintroducing avoidable barriers.
Industrial website accessibility tends to be decided by the parts of a site that carry the most information. A specification table, a filtered product listing, a multi-step enquiry form and a library of downloadable documents are where problems concentrate, and they are also where an inaccessible pattern is repeated across hundreds of pages at once. We work on the components rather than page by page, and we set the target with your compliance team before development begins.
Industrial website accessibility is tested hardest by dense tables, filters, downloads, diagrams and configuration routes. We work through the interactions and content patterns that real visitors depend on, then improve the components themselves rather than applying surface fixes to a handful of pages.
A specification table that only makes sense visually, a filter that cannot be operated from the keyboard, or a drawing whose meaning exists solely in the image are common in this sector because the information itself is complex. Each of those has a structural answer: proper table semantics, a filter built on native controls, and a text equivalent that carries the same content rather than describing the picture.
An accessible launch does not hold if editors have no usable rules. We define content patterns, component guidance and checks so future product, news and market pages stay accessible in normal day-to-day publishing.
In practice that is a short, specific set of rules rather than a copy of the standard: how to write a heading structure, what alt text a product photo needs against a technical diagram, when a table needs a caption, how to name a document link, and which components should be used for content that would otherwise be laid out by hand.
We build to the standard your compliance team defines, so the accessibility work lines up with the legal requirement they own rather than with a separate opinion of ours.
That also shapes what we hand over. Testing records, the decisions taken at design stage and the known limitations are documented, which gives the people responsible for your accessibility statement something concrete to work from and a clear view of what remains open.
Code Industrial is the industrial B2B practice of Code Barcelona, an agency building corporate websites and digital platforms since 2015. The same strategy, design and engineering team works on every industrial project, from the first scoping session through to life after launch.
The requirements are broad, but the difficult parts differ by business. Industrial website accessibility starts with the journeys, components and document types that carry the greatest user impact.
What industrial companies ask when accessibility becomes a requirement on a web project.
It covers the journeys and components visitors use: navigation, forms, product search and filtering, comparison tables, documents, media and mobile interactions. The scope is agreed against your platform and its real user tasks rather than run as a generic scan, because in industrial sites the difficult areas are usually the catalogue and the document library rather than the corporate pages.
Yes, and it is often the most efficient moment. A redesign or migration is when component patterns are being decided anyway, so contrast, focus behaviour, heading structure and keyboard operation can be resolved once and inherited everywhere. Correcting the same issues later means revisiting templates that are already carrying live content.
They are usually the largest gap. A site can pass automated checks while its data sheets, manuals and safety documents remain unusable with a screen reader. Remediating a large document library is a separate workstream and is worth scoping properly rather than assuming a website project covers it. Prioritising by what customers download most keeps that effort proportionate.
Often, and it is worth checking before assuming a rebuild. Contrast, focus states, heading structure and form handling can frequently be corrected in place. What rarely survives is a site assembled entirely with a page builder and third-party widgets that are inaccessible by design, where rebuilding the components tends to cost less than patching around them.
That is a determination for your legal or compliance function rather than for us. The Act reaches certain products and services offered to consumers, and many industrial companies also face requirements through public-sector procurement or customer contracts. We ask which standard and conformance level you are working to, then build and test against it.
They do not address the underlying markup, and they can interfere with the assistive technology a visitor already uses. The issues that matter in industrial sites, such as table semantics, filter behaviour, focus order and document structure, are resolved in the code and the content rather than by a script layered on top. We would rather spend the same budget on the components.
Automated checks run across every template to catch mechanical issues quickly, then the critical journeys are exercised by hand: keyboard operation end to end, screen-reader behaviour on search, forms and restricted content, and contrast verified against the built site rather than the design file. Automated tools alone miss most real interaction problems, which is why the manual pass is where the findings come from.
A dated record of what was tested, what was found, what was corrected and what remains open, together with the design and component decisions behind it. That gives your compliance team the evidence it needs to prepare its own accessibility statement, and gives your editors a short set of publishing rules so the position does not drift after launch.
Accessibility work usually arrives with a redesign or a replatform, because that is when the decisions cost least. These are the capabilities it sits with.
Tell us where your platform is complex and how it is used day to day. We will define a practical accessibility review and a delivery route to go with it.