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91Ô­´´ Accessibility Standards

All 91Ô­´´ digital content must comply with the following digital accessibility standards:

When purchasing digital products and services, make sure to ask vendors to provide a , which details how the product meets or does not meet the accessibility standards linked above.

For more information, review .

Web Accessibility Checkers

The University has made this tool available for official university use by staff and faculty for public university websites (including sites in AEM, Wordpress, other content management platforms or hand-coded websites).

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The WAVE Chrome and Firefox extensions allows you to evaluate web content for accessibility issues directly within Chrome and Firefox browsers.

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The Siteimprove Accessibility Checker is your tool to evaluate any web page for accessibility issues at any given time. It provides intuitive, visual feedback about your content by highlighting detected issues right on the page

* Note:ÌýautomatedÌýaccessibility checkers only catch approximately 30% of accessibility issues, and can sometimes give you false positives and false negatives,Ìýwhich is why it is important to also manually test your website.

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Use this tool to record, prioritize, and track progress on fixing web accessibility issues you encounter while manually testing your website(s).

Learn more about how to fix some common web accessibility issues

Video Captions & Transcripts

The University currently provides for use by the campus community. This platform provides a place to store videos, create automatic closed captioning and edit and export captions for use on other video hosts like YouTube and Vimeo. While this platform is designed to meet the needs of the University community, you may find that your individual needs may require a different solution.Ìý

Color & Design Tools

Empowering designers with beautiful and accessible color palettes based on WCAG Guidelines of text and background contrast ratios.

Enter a foreground and background color in RGB hexadecimal format (e.g., #FD3 or #F7DA39) or choose a color using the color picker. The Lightness slider can be used to adjust the selected color.

Determine how easily persons with disabilities can access PDF documents with the Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Accessibility Checker. Download Adobe Acrobat Pro DC for free from 91Ô­´´'s software distribution service, .

Ally

Integrated into Canvas, Ally scans uploaded files (Docs, PPTs, PDFs, JPEGs, PNGs), detects accessibility errors, and provides instructions for fixing them. Have you noticed colorful dials next to your uploaded content in Canvas? These are generated by Ally. Click on them to check and improve accessibility.Ìý

Ally Resource:

Canvas Accessibility Checker

Integrated into Canvas, this tool identifies common accessibility issues in content created with Canvas’ (pages, assignments, announcements, etc.) and guides users in fixing issues.

Canvas Accessibility Checker Resource:

Email Accessibility Checker

Validate the accessibility of your email campaigns by using .

Other Resources

There are many different tools, products, services, and free informational resources related to digital accessibility. Here are a few you might find useful:

• - find tools, such as a color contrast checker, training, tutorials, and articles on digital accessibility.Ìý
• - provides templates, documents, guides, how tos, and awareness materials.