Accessibility as a restaurant build habit
Access is not a final audit on a hospitality site. It is contrast on menus, labels on booking fields and a page that works with a screen reader at the table.
Accessibility as a final panic audit is how restaurants ship pretty sites that some guests cannot use. Contrast, focus, labels and readable menus have to be in the build habit.
PDFs fail here twice: they are unusable on phones and hostile to assistive tech. A live HTML menu is clearer for everyone, including people filtering allergens.
Test the real path: keyboard to book, screen reader through a dish, zoom at 200%. If the booking widget cannot do that, it is not done.
Access is hospitality. It is also the same discipline as allergen publishing: specific, current, usable before the guest arrives.
Build it in. Do not bolt it on the week before launch.
Common questions
- What accessibility issues show up most on restaurant sites?
- Low-contrast type on dark photography, missing form labels, PDFs that cannot be read, and booking widgets trapped in iframes with no keyboard path.
- Is accessibility only a legal concern?
- It is also covers. Diners who cannot read the menu or complete a form simply go somewhere else.