--- title: Working to make Juju more accessible description: In the middle of July the Juju team got together to work towards making Juju more accessible. For now the aim was to reach Level AA compliant, with the intention of reaching AAA in the future. We started by reading through the W3C accessibility guidelines and distilling each principle into sentences that made sense to […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/working-to-make-juju-more-accessible?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Joseph Williams](https://canonical.com/blog/author/joseph-williams "More about Joseph Williams") 20 October 2016 # Working to make Juju more accessible [Design](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/design) --- Share the article In the middle of July the Juju team got together to work towards making Juju more accessible. For now the aim was to reach Level AA compliant, with the intention of reaching AAA in the future. We started by reading through the [W3C accessibility guidelines](https://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility) and distilling each principle into sentences that made sense to us as a team and documenting this into a spreadsheet. We then created separate columns as to how this would affect the main areas across Juju as a product. Namely static pages on [jujucharms.com](https://jujucharms.com/), the GUI and the inspector element within the GUI. GUI live on [jujucharms.com](https://jujucharms.com/) *Inspector within the GUI* *Example of static page content from the homepage* *The Juju team working through the accessibility guidelines* Tackling this as a team meant that we were all on the same page as to which areas of the Juju GUI were affected by not being AA compliant and how we could work to improve it. We also discussed the amount of design effort needed for each of the areas that isn’t AA compliant and how long we thought it would take to make improvements. You can have a look at the spreadsheet we created to help us track the changes that we need to make to Juju to make more accessible: *Spreadsheet created to track changes and improvements needed to be done* This workflow has helped us manage and scope the tasks ahead and clear up uncertainties that we had about which tasks done or which requirements need to be met to achieve the level of accessibility we are aiming for. [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Challenges designers face in open source (and how to fix them)](https://canonical.com/blog/challenges-designers-face-in-open-source-and-how-to-fix-them) Open source powers up to 90% of modern software, yet many projects lack usability. Canonical’s Design team surveyed 115 cross-functional professionals to uncover the 4 core... [Kola Ojoodide](https://canonical.com/blog/author/kola-ojoodide) 26 June 2026 [### Why web engineering is great](https://canonical.com/blog/why-web-engineering-is-great) Hi, I’m Johann! I’m an engineering manager in Canonical’s web team. For the larger part of my 15 years of work experience as engineer, I’ve been working in web development.... [Johann Wolf](https://canonical.com/blog/author/johannwolf) 27 April 2026 [### Canonical’s recipe for High Performance Computing](https://canonical.com/blog/canonicals-recipe-for-high-performance-computing) In essence, High Performance Computing (HPC) is quite simple. Speed and scale. In practice, the concept is quite complex and hard to achieve. It is not dissimilar to what... [Igor Ljubuncic](https://canonical.com/blog/author/igorljubuncic) 24 January 2024 [### Web team – hack week 2023](https://canonical.com/blog/web-team-hack-week-2023) Today, around 96% of software projects utilize open source in some way. The web team here at Canonical is passionate about Open source. We lead with an open-by-default approach... [Anthony Dillon](https://canonical.com/blog/author/ya-bo-ng) 25 October 2023