All Digital Content

All digital content should all accessible, no matter what type it is or what technology is used to display it. After you learn the accessibility core skills, explore good practices for content presented in different formats.

No matter your role at the University, you can cultivate a more inclusive, accessible, and equitable community for everyone. We encourage you to start small and learn one of the 7 core skills.

Follow our good practices to make both digital visuals and text as accessible as possible to the widest range of users.

Include both human-edited captions and audio descriptions in videos and transcripts in audio-only content.

Include only meaningful images in your digital products, optimize them for online viewing, and provide contextual information.

Use font type and style, text alignment, white space, and line length to ensure the structure of your digital text matches its meaning.

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.