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17³Ô¹Ï is committed to ensuring that all individuals have equal access and opportunity to information and information technology, including students, faculty, staff, and visitors with disabilities. When websites are optimized for a person with a disability, they are much more likely to be clear and easy to navigate for all users. Web accessibility encompasses all disabilities that affect access to the Web, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities.

Understanding Web Accessibility

Web accessibility addresses various disabilities that affect access to digital web content:

• Visual
• Auditory
• Physical
• Speech
• Cognitive
• Neurological

By optimizing our web content, we aim to create an inclusive digital environment for all users.

How can you make your website more accessible?

If you are a web editor for a department or office page on Oxy.edu, there are several easy steps you can take to help ensure the accessibility of your website.

• Make sure you add quality alternate text (alt-text) to all images that you upload and use on your site. Check out .
• Don't add large amounts of text within digital images. Instead, type the relevant information you want to include as text in the body copy area of the page ("live text"), and add alt-text to the image itself.
• Caption all video content that you post to your page. Questions can be directed to Oxy's Disability Services team.
• When adding a link within your content, make sure the text that is linked is unique and descriptive. Instead of saying something like "click here to learn how to update your website," include a description of the webpage you are linking to within the link text itself. For example, "check out our tutorials on updating your website!"
• When posting documents to a website for download, especially if providing a document in the Portable Document Format (PDF), please consider providing the document as an accessible web page and/or in a text-based format such as Word (.docx extension).

Creating accessible images and event calendar listings

Read about how to for the website. Note in particular the section about using images with text (something we want to avoid whenever possible).

Please read the to bring you up to speed on using images correctly and creating a great listing.

Creating accessible emails

This is an important one, and using images correctly plays a big role. Read Harvard's on creating accessible emails.