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Accessibility checks you can automate from the CMS

Use required fields and sane defaults so the easy path is also the accessible path.

Accessibility is mostly boring discipline: alt text on images, logical headings, sufficient contrast in the theme. The CMS can enforce the first two with required fields and rich text that maps to semantic HTML.

Pair that with a theme that uses real heading levels in templates, and run axe or Lighthouse in CI against a few canonical URLs. You will catch regressions before editors do.