IS 5568 is the Israeli standard for web accessibility, and it adopts WCAG 2.1 Level AA as its technical baseline. A business website serving the Israeli public is expected to conform and to publish an accessibility statement. The failures found most often are missing alt text, low colour contrast, keyboard traps and form fields without labels.
How IS 5568 relates to WCAG
Treat IS 5568 as WCAG 2.1 AA plus procedural requirements, most importantly a published accessibility statement, in Hebrew, with a named contact for accessibility requests.
The failures to check first
- Alt text. Decorative images need empty alt text; meaningful images need a real description.
- Contrast. Normal text needs a 4.5:1 contrast ratio against its background, large text 3:1. Light-grey body text is the most common failure.
- Keyboard. Every interactive element reachable with Tab, with a visible focus ring. Custom menus and pop-ups are where this usually breaks.
- Forms. Every input needs a label that assistive technology can read. Placeholder text does not count.
- Motion. Respect the reduced-motion setting, and land on a designed still state rather than an empty space.
- Hebrew and RTL. Direction set correctly, with mixed Hebrew and Latin text that reads in the right order.
Overlay widgets
Accessibility overlays do not make a site conform on their own. Conformance comes from the HTML, the design and the content, so that is where the fixes belong.
A practical order of work
- Run an automated scan to catch the mechanical failures.
- Do a keyboard-only pass over every template.
- Do a screen-reader pass over the key journeys: contact, sign-up, checkout.
- Publish the accessibility statement, with a named contact.
- Retest whenever a template changes.
This site’s own accessibility statement follows the same structure.
This guide is general information, not legal advice. Confirm your specific obligations with counsel.