Your Joomla accessibility partner
Our team audits your Joomla website and upgrades it to meet the latest accessibility standards – with clear recommendations and an implementation plan you can act on.
Accessibility with Joomla: legal requirement & real opportunity
Accessibility means your website can be used by everyone – regardless of limitations or disabilities. Across the UK and EU this isn’t just good practice, in many cases it’s a legal obligation.
We have deep Joomla experience and we help you adapt your website so it’s inclusive, usable and accessible to every visitor – following the latest standards and guidelines.
Our Joomla accessibility services
Accessible Joomla development
We build and optimise templates, modules and components so they meet current WCAG and EN 301 549 standards.
WCAG audit for Joomla sites
We manually test your Joomla site with screen readers and accessibility tools, produce an audit report and give you clear next steps.
Accessibility retrofit
for existing Joomla
Through template overrides, ARIA attributes, semantic structure and better forms, we upgrade existing Joomla sites for accessibility.
Support &
training
We train editors and developers to create accessible content and support your team as accessibility becomes part of everyday work.
Who are we?
joom.team is a Joomla-specialist agency based in Manchester. For many years we’ve been helping companies, institutions and organisations build, maintain and evolve their Joomla websites.
Our team combines deep technical expertise with a focus on sustainable, long-term solutions. Whether it’s upgrades, accessibility, performance or complex integrations – we know Joomla’s strengths and limits and use that knowledge to move your project forward.
What does accessibility mean to us?
In our early days, our agency lead Jay took on a project for a local non-profit that supports people with different disabilities. During development he met several members of that community and heard their stories. That completely changed the project for us. It wasn’t just about “a website” anymore – it became about real people actually using it. That moment shaped the way we work and how seriously we take accessible design today.
Jay / Agency Owner
FAQ: Accessibility in Joomla
WCAG 2.2 and EN 301 549 define requirements for perceivability, operability, understandability and robustness. For Joomla this means things like: correct semantic markup in templates, sufficient colour contrast, full keyboard usability, visible focus states, meaningful alt text, proper ARIA roles and accessible form validation.
Yes. A lot can be fixed without a full redesign: template overrides, adjustments to Cassiopeia or custom templates, corrections in modules/components, ARIA attributes, skip links, better focus handling, heading structure and contrast improvements. A full relaunch is only needed if the structural issues run very deep.
We often see: missing skip links, unclear navigation structure in menu modules, weak focus styles, low colour contrast in templates, unlabeled icons/buttons, incorrect form labels and error messages, illogical tab order, and missing language attributes (for example lang or xml:lang).
In many cases Cassiopeia (Bootstrap 5) is a solid base. With targeted overrides, better contrast, stronger focus indicators and semantic improvements, we can often reach WCAG compliance. A brand new template makes sense if strict design requirements or an outdated framework block accessibility improvements.
We combine manual checks (keyboard-only navigation, screen readers like NVDA/VoiceOver) with automated scanning (axe / WAVE) plus code review. We also audit contrast, focus flow, semantic structure, forms and error feedback, and we test real user journeys (navigation, search, media playback).
1) Kick-off & scoping, 2) audit (sample of pages and components), 3) findings report with priorities (A / AA), 4) concrete implementation tasks for Joomla (overrides, CSS/JS, modules, content), 5) review & re-test. You receive a practical action plan including effort estimates.
Public sector sites are usually required to follow standards such as BITV / EN 301 549. The European Accessibility Act (EAA) also introduces obligations for certain private services and products. We advise on practical technical compliance, but we don’t provide legal advice – we give you the technical foundation you need.
Yes. Clear structure, correct headings, meaningful links, labelled controls and fast, keyboard-friendly pages help screen reader users – and everyone else. In most cases that also supports SEO and conversion.
The effort depends on scope, template setup and the components in use. After the audit you get a prioritised roadmap with clear effort and cost estimates. Quick wins can usually be delivered fast; deeper changes are planned in sprints.
Michael Vietze
Agency Owner
Let’s talk about your project!
Get in touch and we’ll come back to you within one working day. You can also send me an email.