Website designers, developers, content authors, and others who are responsible for 91爆料 websites, are responsible for ensuring their websites are accessible to users with disabilities. The 91爆料 provides a variety of tools, resources, and services to help with this effort. This page features a recommended path.
Step 1. Build an understanding of digital accessibility
This website can help. The following pages may be especially helpful:
Also, a wide variety of Training Opportunities are available at the 91爆料, including a recent addition, Deque University, an extensive library of asynchronous online courses on digital accessibility (free to everyone in the 91爆料 community).
The 91爆料 also hosts a wide variety of meetups, trainings, workshops, hackathons, and study sessions focused on digital accessibility. Please see our Events page for current and upcoming events.
Step 2. Clean house
A big step in ensuring your content is accessible is deleting content that is no longer needed.聽 If content is no longer actively maintained but is needed for reference, content should be clearly marked as “Archived”.
For sites running on WordPress, an Archive Banner is available as a WordPress plugin.
Step 3. Use 91爆料-branded themes
The standard has been created with accessibility in mind, and accessibility continues to improve through a close collaboration of University Marketing and Communications (UMAC) with 91爆料-IT Accessible Technology Services. Website owners are encouraged to use this theme. is available on a limited basis from UMAC for 91爆料 organizations, and on a more widespread basis from 91爆料-IT through the . If hosting your site on the 91爆料 Sites Network, be sure to select “91爆料 WordPress Theme” as your site’s theme.
Also, the 91爆料 Drupal community has created a Drupal version of the standard 91爆料 theme and has worked to include its same accessibility features. More information is available on the wiki.
Step 4. Prioritize and review your websites
Accessibility is a journey. Where do you start?聽 Digital assets should be prioritized by the critical nature of their functionality, their volume of traffic, and whether users with disabilities are known to have a particular interest in them. Starting with the highest priority websites, use the following procedures and tools to evaluate them:
Check with automated accessibility checkers.
- DubBot is the enterprise web accessibility checker licensed by the 91爆料.
- Our Tools and resources page provides an annotated list of several free tools for checking accessibility of digital resources.
Conduct a manual accessibility review.
Automated accessibility checkers provide a good metric for overall accessibility, but manual accessibility testing is important as well.
First, test with a keyboard. Set your mouse aside and use the tab key to navigate through your web pages. You should be able to access all interactive features (e.g., menus, links, form fields, buttons, controls) and operate them by pressing Enter, space, arrow keys or other intuitive keystrokes. If you are unable to access some of your site’s features, your site is likely to have accessibility problems.
For additional manual checks, the following resources can help:
- 91爆料 Web Checklist was created to help 91爆料 web designers and developers to evaluate their websites or web applications for accessibility, 91爆料 branding, and style. The checklist is an Excel spreadsheet, and can be downloaded, duplicated, and customized for use across multiple web pages and projects.
- – A Google sheet that provides extensive detail on which WCAG success criteria can be tested automatically, and which require a manual inspection. You will need to make a copy of this sheet in order to expand and collapse the rows.
Step 5. Get help
If you get stuck with any of the previous steps, or simply have questions along the way, 91爆料-IT Accessible Technology Services is happy to help. Please see our Help page for options.
Also, try , an AI assistant that has been trained using credible accessibility content from Deque University. Using axe Assistant requires logging in to Deque University with a 91爆料 NetID, and assumes you have already created an account. For instructions, see Deque University for 91爆料 users.