Is an Accessibility Plugin Enough to Comply With Israeli Law?
A floating accessibility widget doesn't make a site comply with IS 5568. What the widget really does, where it fails, why it sometimes hurts, and what does cover you.
7 min readTwo laws touch almost every business website in Israel: the IS 5568 accessibility duty, and the privacy duties of Amendment 13. A whole industry of scare tactics and magic fixes grew around both - and these guides are the opposite answer: what the law actually requires, and how to meet it with orderly work on the code.
Worth saying plainly: I'm a developer, not a lawyer. These guides cover the website's side - the code, content and structure. Full legal advice comes from a lawyer.
A floating accessibility widget doesn't make a site comply with IS 5568. What the widget really does, where it fails, why it sometimes hurts, and what does cover you.
7 min readThe accessibility statement under Regulation 35: what the regulations require in it, where to put it, what never to write, and a template you can adapt to your site.
7 min readA plain-language guide to Israel's website accessibility law: who must comply, what IS 5568 and WCAG AA require, and why overlay widgets fall short.
9 min readAmendment 13 covers almost any site collecting details: what the duty of notification requires on forms, what to do about pixels, and a policy that holds up.
7 min readAn accessibility complaint about your site: what not to do first, how to find what's actually broken, why a widget won't save you, and what to document.
7 min readA few lines in the form if you prefer writing - or straight to the channel you already use. Either way, it's me answering.