Accessibility
Overview
Three common barriers to accessible content for all students
- Items lacking contrast
- Missing alternative text tags for images
- Empty or broken links
Eighty-five percent of homepages have issues with presenting low contrast text. Nearly 68 percent of pages were missing alternative text for images. More than half of the websites included empty links or missing form labels.
From: eCampus News - Ensuring accessible content for all students.
Tools to Help Make Your Content Accessible
The WAVE WebAIM Tool is a suite of tools inside a web browser add-on and is a great way to scan online or browser content and get feedback multiple areas of web content at once. See https://wave.webaim.org/
If you need a specific tool or need to verify offline content, we recommend you check out the lists below for some tools that can help you.
Online Content
Google's Lighthouse Dev Tool
See Captioning Panopto Videos for generating automatic captions
Additional Resources