It is important that your website content can be easily navigated and accessed by everyone regardless of their viewing platform (phone, tablet, laptop, etc.) and internet speed and by those with visual, auditory, motor or cognitive disabilities.
Accessibility Tips
• Check your page title, navigation title and page header
• Use the built-in header styles
• Avoid underlining text and over-using bold and italic styles
• Paste as plain text (Ctrl + Shift + V) or highlight text and click the "clear formatting" icon (Tx) to remove external styles
• Use descriptive link text that makes sense out of context (avoid "click here")
• Use the "image description" field (aka ALT tag)
• Use text instead of pictures of text and summarize graphs and charts
• Use the Microsoft accessibility checker for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files
• Document structure tags for accessibility when saving PDFs
• Create a webpage or use an online form rather than uploading a document
• Proofread, spell-check and preview page updates
Accessibility Resources
• Creating Accessible Documents in MS Word
• Creating Accessible PDFs from MS Word
• Student Accessibility and Support Services
• SensusAccess Document Conversion Service
Please contact Emily Lindo in the Office of Communications or Student Accessibility and Support Services with any questions about accessibility.