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Lets start a wiki on this… The ideal is to keep this a short 5 minute read that covers the basics. Link to more advanced documents/resources. This is a living document please!!! feel free to make changes! I’ll leave spelling mistakes so your forced to make some edit :)

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Requirements - WIP

“University has an obligation to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.0 Level AA for all public websites”

What about password protected staff and student sites?

TODO: pull quotas from "ministry of seniors and accessibility" email

Guidance

Always write HTML code with accessibility in mind!

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A link text should explain clearly what information the reader will get by clicking on that link.

Checkers

Public sites:

  • Siteimprove

Sites behind authentication:

  • WAVE browser plugin

  • Lighthouse - built into Chrome browser

https://uwaterloo.ca/digital-accessibility

https://uwaterloo.ca/web-resources/resources/accessibility

WAVE browser plugin

Lighthouse - built into Chrome browser

WCAG2.1 Help Tool

https://picocss.com/

  • This site has some neat Neat examples of Some some quick useful items.

WCAG2.1 Help Tool

Notes

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