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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Access Training

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.

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DESIGN / 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.

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ACCESSIBLE 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.

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IN 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.

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IT 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.