Digital Accessibility
Technology such as websites, social media, and electronic documents are often the first point of contact that prospective students, employees, and community members have with UCI. Internally, UCI students and employees rely on digital technologies to study and work. Accessibility of these technologies is vital and required by law. You can help increase accessibility using the resources below.
How-to Guides
Instruction
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Creating Websites and Marketing Material
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MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Accessibility and Branding
Marketers work through web pages, emails, documents, media, and surveys—all of which should be accessible to the largest audience possible.
DESIGN
Using Style For Design
While a web developer makes a designer’s vision a reality, there are a number of guidelines related to accessibility that a designer can directly address—including creating style, determining placement, and working with color.
WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
Accessibility Basics for Developers
This course examines all the ways web developers affect accessibility with images, tables, multimedia, navigation, structure, coding, CSS, color, and forms.
WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
Navigation and Structure for Developers
This course examines all the ways web developers affect accessibility with images, tables, multimedia, navigation, structure, coding, CSS, color, and forms.
Accessibility Training
These trainings provide both a general overview and in-depth tutorials about digital accessibility.
General
DESIGN / CONTENT CREATION
Formatting For Content Contributors
This course outlines the roles and responsibilities of writers, editors, page owners, and other content contributors as relates to digital accessibility.
Content contributors will review how content choices such as color, links, images, tables, and multimedia can impact the user experience.
Access TrainingDESIGN / CONTENT CREATION
Intro to Accessible Multimedia
Depending on your industry, making accessible multimedia may not only be the right thing to do, but may also be required by law.
Access TrainingACCESSIBLE PURCHASING
Preparing to Purchase
This course examines how purchasing information and communication technology plays a role in accessibility from the time request for proposals are sent out through the contract negotiation phase.
You’ll also learn how timelines need to include sufficient time to do automated and manual accessibility testing before contracts are signed.
Access TrainingIN THE CLASSROOM
Understanding the Instructional Designer Role
This course addresses creating accessible and instructional materials for the classroom including common content issues, increasing readability, and universal design for learning principals to maximize accessibility.
Access TrainingIT Accessibility
The UC Information Technology Accessibility Policy was approved and became effective August 27, 2013. The policy promotes and supports an accessible IT environment within the University of California system. By supporting IT accessibility, the University of California helps ensure that as broad a population as possible is able to access, benefit from, and contribute to its electronic programs and services.