If you're sick, you go to the doctor. Doctors are good (most of the time) at diagnosing and treating an illness. Hospitals fix broken bones, manage diabetes and treat all sorts of emergencies.
But neither doctors nor hospitals make people healthy.
Being healthy is on you. Through good food, exercise, sleep and real social connections.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provides technical standards. Think colour contrast ratios, keyboard navigation or alt text requirements. It gives you a nice list of do this not that.
But accessible products aren't born from checklists. They come from teams who understand and respect their users. From designers who think of who will be using the site. From developers who navigate their own sites using only a keyboard. From user testing with real people using screen readers.
All that out of a sense of duty and a job well done.
WCAG can help you fix accessibility issues, just like medicine can fix health problems. But neither system creates what we actually want.
Healthcare treats symptoms, WCAG treats compliance gaps. Real accessibility happens when we build it into the foundation, not bolt it on afterward.