Accessibility Resources
Web accessibility is an essential part of a good website. This web page is designed to give system users a guide to ensure their web content is available and usable for as many site visitors as possible.
CMS System Users
- Should be meaningful
- Should adequately describe the page content
- Should be unique for every page
- Will be displayed in most web browsers' title bar
- First thing read by screen readers
- Will return in the search engine results
Additional Resource: Page title
- Position most important information at the top of the page
- Ensure the text content is readable and understandable
- Identify your target audience
- Provide definition to unusual words, phrases, idiom, and abbreviations
- Keep your content short and to the point
- Provide your users with bulleted lists, number lists or summary sections for easier scanning
- Use meaningful subheadings
- Headings should use <H> tags
- Headings should use meaningful hierarchy
- Divide page content using H2 subheadings
- Use keywords within the headings
- Link text and anchors should provide a description of where the link is going
- Avoid using generic text like 'click here' and 'read more' provide meaningful verbiage
- Captioning should be available when linking to videos or audio
- Use alternative text "Alt Tags" to provide a description of the image
- Use important keywords in the alternative text description
- Avoid text in an image - Text on an image is just an image
- Use the image to support the content
- Avoid using large images on a page
- When to use descriptive text
- The image presents content
- The image has a function (links)
- When descriptive text is replaced with null or ""
- The image content is conveyed within surrounding text
- The image has not function
- The image is used for decoration - the image serves not purpose by not conveying a meaning
In the Image Properties window within the Alternative Text field include the descriptive text for the image.
Alternative Text Prickly pear cactus flowers in bloom
Additional Resource: Image text alternatives ("alt text")
- Ensure to provide methods to control automated content
- Provide text based labels for controls
- Include captions
- Ensure to provide methods to control automated content
Additional Resource: Multimedia (video, audio) alternatives
- Ensure to provide methods to control automated content
- Provide text based labels for controls
- Include captions
- Ensure the PDF document is accessible. Adobe offers tutorials for Acrobat Pro and Acrobat XI to create easy accessible PDF documents.
Additional Resource: Multimedia (video, audio) alternatives
