WCAG 2.2 on Sanity: complete compliance checklist

WCAG 2.2 in 60 seconds

WCAG 2.2 (pronounced 'wuh-cag 2.2') is the World Wide Web Consortium's globally adopted standard for web accessibility, published October 2023, defining 87 testable success criteria organised under four principles: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust.

Sanity accessibility — what you are starting with

Sanity's headless model means accessibility is delivered downstream. The Studio is reasonably accessible; the failure mode is schema design and front-end rendering.

WCAG 2.2 setup checklist for Sanity

1. Require alt text in image schema: Validation rules at schema level.

2. Audit Portable Text renderer: Map block types to semantic HTML.

Common WCAG 2.2 failures on Sanity

• Schema design without required alt text

• Portable Text renderers losing semantics

Putting it together

Combine WCAG 2.2's AA requirements with Sanity's native tooling. Bake accessibility into your component library and editorial workflow; instrument axe-core in CI for regression.