Digital accessibility provides equitable and inclusive access to WSU’s digital content and technology. It means digital content and technology can be easily accessed, navigated, and understood by all people, including those with visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive disabilities.
WSU Accessibility Statement
Accessible means all “students, faculty, staff, and visitors have access to…technology and information needed to have an equal opportunity to succeed in their education, employment, and community activities.”
Digital Accessibility Benefits Everyone
Incorporating accessibility standards makes digital content and technology universally accessible to all. Accessible content and technology reduce the barriers by explicitly making it possible – by design – for every WSU student, faculty, staff, and visitor to engage with digital content and explore all the possibilities the WSU community has to offer.
WSU Policy and Procedures
WSU has engaged in a continuous process to update digital accessibility policy and procedures to best serve its community and to meet state and federal requirements.
WSU digital accessibility policy and procedure for ensuring compliance and implementation is BPPM 10.45 Electronic and Information Technology (EIT) Accessibility (formerly EP07 and BPPM 85.55).
Digital Accessibility is Everyone’s Responsibility
All WSU employees are responsible for making sure the digital content they create or publish (such as email, documents, multimedia, and websites) is accessible and provides an inclusive experience.
Although assistive technologies are available to help people with disabilities access digital content and technology, those technologies work best when digital content is designed with accessibility in mind.
These resources will help you make your digital content and technology accessible to everyone.
Core Concepts
These core concepts address a majority of the barriers to digital content and technology. Review these concepts to improve the accessibility of your digital content.
Assessment
Digital Accessibility assessment is required and must be completed yearly per university policy.
Testing Tools
These resources help you test and check your digital content and technology to ensure its accessibility. Become familiar with testing your particular content type.
Guides
These guides provide more information to help you when addressing the accessibility of digital content and technology.
Resources
Digital Accessibility Fundamentals
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Digital Accessibility Fundamentals 1.1: What is digital accessibility?
Source: Intopia
What does digital accessibility mean, and who does it affect?
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Digital Accessibility Fundamentals 1.2: Who does digital accessibility affect?
Source: Intopia
Who our users are and how they might be affected by digital accessibility.
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Digital Accessibility Fundamentals 1.3: Why engage with digital accessibility? (International)
Source: Intopia
Explore the key reasons to engage with digital accessibility.
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Digital Accessibility Fundamentals 1.4: What are our obligations? (International)
Source: Intopia
This lesson covers obligations from a global perspective.
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W3C Foundation Modules
This curriculum provides a general introduction to web accessibility. It is designed for any student with a basic understanding of computers and the Web. It addresses many different audiences, including people with different technical skills and knowledge about the topic.
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Module 1: What is Web Accessibility
Source: W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
Introduces stories of people with disabilities, defines and scopes web accessibility, and introduces its interrelations with other disciplines.
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Module 2: People and Digital Technology
Source: W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
Introduces some accessibility features and barriers, presents some adaptive strategies and assistive tools, and introduces the components of web accessibility.
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Module 3: Business Case and Benefits
Source: W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
Introduces the business case for web accessibility and presents some benefits, such as enhancing your brand, increasing market reach, driving innovation, and minimizing legal risk.
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Module 4: Principles, Standards, and Checks
Source: W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
Introduces the principles of web accessibility, as well as the international W3C Accessibility standards, and how these are developed. Provides hands-on experience checking how web pages have implemented the standards or not.
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Module 5: Getting Started with Accessibility
Source: W3C: Web Accessibility Initiative
Provides an overview of organizational planning and managing considerations to integrate accessibility throughout the web production process, and of different accessibility roles and responsibilities involved.
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