ADA compliance and inclusive design principles – Accessible web design ensures that everyone, regardless of ability, can navigate, understand, and interact with digital content. Following ADA and WCAG guidelines means providing proper color contrast, text alternatives for images, keyboard navigation, and captions or transcripts for multimedia. Inclusive design goes beyond compliance: it anticipates the diverse needs of users with vision, hearing, and cognitive differences. By designing with empathy and accessibility from the start, we create online spaces that are equitable, user-friendly, and open to all.