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I understand that some countries have laws regarding website accessibility. In general, what are the minimum requirements that a website must meet to be accessible, regardless of country? Or, in lieu of minimum requirements, what are some specific things that websites should have to make the accessible?
W3C publishes Web Content Accessibility Guidelines:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
If you want a quick summary list, look for the yellow-highlighted lines in that document. Each guideline is also broken down into specific requirements (‘checkpoints’) in one of three priorities – to claim any kind of accessibility under this scheme you must satisfy all priority 1 checkpoints, but they’re ‘necessary’ rather than ‘sufficient’ conditions.
Looking at your pages in lynx is also a good measure – if it won’t render in text, chances are good that a screen reader will have a difficult time of it too.