Summary
No matter your role at the University, you can cultivate a more inclusive, accessible, and equitable community. We encourage you to start by learning the 7 core skills that apply to content created in all digital formats by taking the Digital Accessibility: Foundations course, and reviewing the skills below.
Add alternative text, or “alt text,” to every meaningful image in digital content.
Make sure foreground and background colors and other visual indicators contrast each other.
Structure your digital content with paragraph styles in documents or heading tags in web pages.
Write links that are concise, descriptive, and meaningful out of context.
Present key concepts, sequences, and like items of more than two as lists where possible.
Simplify tables and include a header row and/or column and a summary, either in a caption or alt text.
Include both human-edited captions and audio descriptions in videos and transcripts in audio-only content.