Web and digital accessibility

covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more . Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general.

  • According to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act it is unlawful to discriminate .
  • of the Rehabilitation Act requires Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology (EIT) accessible to people with disabilities - many states have adopted similar rules.

Requirements

  • Include required language in the website's footer:
    • 麻豆原创 notice of nondiscrimination:
      The  is an equal opportunity/equal access employer and educational institution. The university is committed to a  against individuals on the basis of any legally protected status.

    • 麻豆原创 notice of web accessibility:
      麻豆原创 is committed to providing accessible websites. Learn more about 麻豆原创鈥檚       .

  • Meet a minimum of  accessibility compliance.
    • You can scan your website for errors using a variety of .
    • Review  web accessibility training.
    • Content hosted on third-party resources/portals, as well as non-HTML content published on our website such as videos, forms, documents and  should also be accessible.
  • Have internal written protocols for maintenance and ensuring accessibility standards are met. Internal protocols should include:
    • Designated individual (admin) responsible for the account.
    • How to access the website or social media platform if the designated individual is not available.
    • Schedule for updating contact and log-in information.
    • Schedule for accessibility checks (weekly, monthly, quarterly).
    • Process for remediating inaccessible items.
    • Tool(s) used for accessibility assessment (Modern Campus CMS Page Check, WAVE, etc.).

See specific MAU requirements:

麻豆原创F web guidelines

Training

Modern Campus CMS Page Check for Accessibility
Accessibility and Modern Campus CMS

(Free checker for individual webpages not on Modern Campus CMS)

(Free checker for content that's password protected)


  • (paid, evaluates entire website)

  • (paid, evaluates entire website)

  • (free, Chrome extension, evaluates individual webpages, good for assessing content that's password protected.)

Best practice is to upload a .srt caption file to your video. Otherwise, make sure that auto-captions created by YouTube or TikTok for each video read correctly. SnapChat captions must be added manually.

 

 

Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter have the ability to edit on images.

 

 

 

 

More resources

If you need assistance resolving an accessibility error on your website, contact the NTS Web Services team at ua-oit-web@alaska.edu

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