Learning Commons:Student Orientation/Accessibility

Overview

In Learning Commons site, we try to aim to make the site accessible so that the resources we create are accesible for all users including those with visual, hearing, cognitive and motor impairments. We will use Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as a guideline.

Basic info on Accessibility and WCAG guideline

• Presentation about accessibility (Powerpoint file) - A good presentation about best practices on accessibility
• https://www.wuhcag.com/web-content-accessibility-guidelines/ A good summary on WCAG guideline

Accessibility checklist

We can aim for AA ranking for the WCAG2.0 guideline - since AAA ranking can be very challenging to meet.

• Official WCAG2.0 Checklist. https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/
  • https://www.wuhcag.com/wcag-checklist/ WCAG checklist. The blog author organizes the WCAG guidelines in clearer way

Tools

• http://khan.github.io/tota11y/ -Tota11y.
• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/axe/lhdoppojpmngadmnindnejefpokejbdd - Axe(Chrome Extension). It is less interactive compared to Tota11y but it is accurate.
• https://open-indy.github.io/Koa11y/ - Koa11y. It will scan the site, and go through which part of site is not accessible in WCAG 2.0 standards. AAA ranking is way too challenging to meet, so AA ranking is recommended.
• http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ If you find one of the tool doesn't detect the color contrast properly, you may want to use this tool to manually test if the color contrast is sufficient.

Resources

• Resources on Accessibility in UBC template http://clf.ubc.ca/features/accessibility.html
• Resources on Lynda.com
• Presentation about accessibility (Powerpoint file)