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Guides

Written for the people who own the content: documentation leads, knowledge managers, Confluence admins, and whoever ended up answering the accessibility question in a procurement form.

Confluence and WCAG: what Atlassian covers and what is yours

Atlassian's VPAT covers the product. It says nothing about the pages your teams wrote. Where the line sits, and why it matters in an audit.

Does ADA Title II apply to your Confluence knowledge base?

The 2027 and 2028 deadlines, who is covered, and how to work out whether your spaces are in scope.

Alt text in Confluence: how to add it, and how to write it well

The mechanics in the Cloud editor, what makes a description useful, and the cases where empty alt text is the right answer.

Tables a screen reader can actually read

Header rows, merged cells, layout tables, and how to restructure the table that has been growing sideways since 2021.

The European Accessibility Act for documentation teams

In force since June 2025. What it covers, the micro-enterprise limit, and why “disproportionate burden” is a document rather than a shrug.

A WCAG 2.2 checklist for Confluence authors

The dozen things an author actually controls, ordered by how much harm each one removes.