Improve your web accessibility for Get Online Week 2026

Hosted by Good Things Australia, Get Online Week 2026 takes place on 19-25 October. It aims to close the digital divide and provide everyday Australians with the skills and knowledge they need to engage online with confidence.

As the trusted operator of Australian critical internet infrastructure, auDA, aims to connect Australians to an open internet with trust and confidence. We’ve signed on as the Get Online Week 2026 Accessibility Partner to support the delivery of dedicated resources to help improve accessibility, usability and digital literacy so everyone feels safer and more confident online.

Key learning resources we’re supporting include:

• A handy tipsheet for making your smartphone, tablet or computer easier to use
  • Also available as a print version
• An accessibility quiz for event organisers to help ensure their events are as accessible and available to as many people as possible.

Along with incorporating tips from these resources to improve you or your organisation’s accessibility, auDA has developed resources and content for improving your online accessibility and ability to be discovered online.

Access to online content and applications is an important part of engaging in everyday life no matter your context or walk-of-life. Improving the accessibility of your website and online presence means that you can communicate with your audience more clearly, and they can understand your message more easily.

Whether your audience is working with patchy phone reception, has lower levels of digital literacy, is injured and trying to use a phone, tablet or computer, or is part of the one in five Australians living with disability – better digital accessibility means more people can browse your website, contact you online and online shop with confidence.

You don’t need to be a technical person to start improving either, there are some simple steps you can take to improve the accessibility of your website, including:

• Using clear, descriptive headings
• Using proper “Heading” fonts or styles, not just bolding text
• Structure your content into shorter, simple paragraphs of roughly four lines each
• Use high contrast colours so that your website is more readable for people with low vision and people checking your website on a sunny day or without their glasses.

If you’ve just started thinking about digital accessibility and your online presence, the good news is that a lot of best practices for setting up your website have accessibility in mind.

A strong digital presence is a key ingredient to help your hobby, project or business reach your audience and ensure they can access the information or services you offer.

If you already have a website or are thinking about building one, auDA’s DIY guide on building a website will step you through the process of planning and creating a basic, brochure-style website that you can easily maintain, even if you have entry-level digital skills.

Included in the guide are some handy tips for building your website that also support better digital accessibility, such as:

• Making your website easily navigable with common sections like “About us”, “Services”, and “Contact us”
• Improving how scannable and mobile friendly your website is
• Creating buttons and calls to action that are easily identifiable.

Get Online Week also has a rich list of learning resources to upskill your digital literacy, which can be helpful information for improving your online presence for others too.

Along with making sure your website and online presence is accessible, it’s important that it can be found on the internet too.

People find what they’re looking for online through a wide range tools, including using search engines like Google, getting answers to their questions from AI tools, or looking on social media. All of these pathways depend on algorithms or logic that assess the information you put online, so that when someone searches or asks a question, they can try to match it with the right information.

Thankfully, there are some easy ways to improve how people find you on the internet – including in AI answers – and they’re often similar to the ways you would improve your digital accessibility. Some simple steps include:

• Using clear page headings and titles, and structuring your information based on those headings
• Having simple, clear and helpful information that your audience can understand
• Starting a blog that shares important information about topics that your audience is interested in.

Taking these steps and thinking deeply about how you can best give your audience the right information clearly has many benefits: improving your digital accessibility, increasing the findability of your website and information online and helping people use the internet with confidence.

If you’re interested in how you can support closing the digital divide, improve digital literacy or help someone feel more confident online, you can get involved in Get Online Week activities. You can:

• Get a helping hand or help someone upskill at an event near you
• Host an event yourself to support your community
• Explore how you can be a digital mentor for those close to you
• Share tips and resources to help people feel more confident online.